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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 10, 2024 A person looks out towards the flooded interstate after Hurricane Beryl swept through the area on July 08, 2024 in Houston, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images After Hurricane Beryl barreled into coastal Texas on Monday morning, Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston is among several churches […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, July 10, 2024 ershinin/iStock Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use. Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one’s […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Rev. Warren Beard, 53, was an assistant pastor and Sunday School teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church […]
Today, China officially recognizes roughly 20 million Christians affiliated with “government-sanctioned” churches. These are churches registered with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and under state control. Actual numbers of Christians are believed to be well over 100 million, thanks in part to the courageous pioneering of Wang Mingdao, who in the 1930s established the […]
The thirty-two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are observing its seventy-fifty anniversary this week in Washington, DC. Support for Ukraine will be an especially high priority escalated by Russia’s missile attack Monday that hit a children’s hospital and killed at least forty-one civilians. The subplot across the week, however, will […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Tuesday, July 09, 2024 The Rev. Warren Beard, 53, an assistant pastor and Sunday school teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, has been missing since July 2, 2024. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Family and friends of the Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father […]
Fashion has a way of exposing the true underbelly of culture, it reflects more of what is not said rather than what is expressed overtly. Fashion sets a tone, shares a message, and speaks visually in a glance at what would require a verbose explanation to express in word form. Recently the dress Olivia Culpo […]
Years ago, I was very frustrated at the church’s and our nation’s spiritual condition. I prayed, “Lord, many of us have faith that things can change, but nothing seems to be working!” Through Scripture reading, I soon realized that faith often involves action: “The day I pray for God to move the mountain, I often […]
Since 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has followed two groups of men. One is a group of 456 boys from Boston’s most troubled families and roughest neighborhoods. The other consisted of 268 Harvard College students, chosen by a professor of hygiene specifically for their potential to become healthy, well-adjusted adults. The focus […]
In the late 1930s, Corrie ten Boom was living in a small town in the Netherlands, better known as Holland. Her home, called the Beje (pronounced bay-yay), was a tilting, centuries-old house in the center of Haarlem and its bumpy brick streets. Actually, it was two houses. In front, it looked like a typical old […]