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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 […]
By Dennis Lennox, CP Contributor Sunday, July 07, 2024 The interior of the Cathedral Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Chad in Lichfield, England. | Dennis Lennox Medieval cathedral. Check. A quaint small city. Check. Lots of religious history. Check. Checking all the boxes is Lichfield, an underrated city of 32,000 souls in the […]
By Trinity Foundation, Saturday, July 06, 2024 Trinity Foundation investigator Pete Evans took this photo of Benny Hinn’s Dana Point, California, beach home while it was under construction. Evans spoke with Dave Busk, the builder, and was told the residence would be his client’s “dream home.” | Trinity Foundation Beach houses and beach condos along […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Thursday, July 04, 2024 A 19th century painting by John Trumbull depicting the surrender of British General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which led to the United States gaining its independence. | Wikimedia Commons People across the United States are celebrating the nation’s Independence Day, which marks […]
On the 4th of July, I’m always reminded of times I’ve traveled in countries where freedom is severely curtailed. Or where the people have been freshly freed from the chains of injustice, and the joy of their release was palpable. I was in Johannesburg on the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid. I was […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 03, 2024 Zachary King, 47, former executive pastor of LexCity Church in Lexington, Kentucky, has been charged with rape and sexual abuse of a minor. | Screengrab: YouTube/Lexington City Church Zachary King, a pastor with “significant experience serving in youth ministry” at multiple megachurches, including LexCity Church in […]