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Three days before the first day of school in Columbus, Ohio, the teachers’ union went on strike, leaving 47,000 students with nowhere to go. School board officials promised that schooling would move forward “online,” but on what was supposed to be the first day, the website suffered hours-long outages. It was chaos. Even as […]
Pathways and parks line Arkansas River connecting downtown Wichita with several of the museums. | Dennis Lennox After visiting Wichita it is easy to see why this is one of the most underrated cities in the country. With a population of 392,059 at the last census, the seat of surrounding Sedgwick County is the largest […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 2, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian posted in Yola, northeast Nigeria, as part of his youth service corps duty was killed on Aug. 26 in what was suspected as a targeted attack, sources said. Samaila Sabo Awudu was assaulted by at least five men with machetes at about 1:30 a.m. […]
An 83-year-old nun from Louisiana has been found safe after she was kidnapped at gunpoint in Burkina Faso earlier this year. “Great news, Sister Suellen has been freed,” announced Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a Facebook post published Wednesday. “It’s a prayer answered. Thankful for her safety.” Sister Suellen Tennyson of the Marianites of Holy […]
Journey’s Jonathan Cain says in a new interview that his most popular songs, including Faithfully and Open Arms, were inspired by God and, in hindsight, reference God. A Christian, Cain is credited with writing Don’t Stop Believin’ (1981), Faithfully, (1983), Open Arms (1981) and Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (1983) – songs that remain popular today, some four decades […]
President Joe Biden delivered a speech last night from Independence Hall in Philadelphia. I have been where he stood and was deeply moved by the experience. It was here, at the “birthplace of America,” that the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Eleven years later, in the same room, delegates […]
Tennis superstar Serena Williams announced earlier this month that she would retire sometime after the US Open, so her first-round victory last night captured headlines. However, a tennis event last week deserves attention as well: the US Open held a “Tennis Plays for Peace” exhibition to raise funds for Ukraine relief. Tennis luminaries such as Rafael Nadal, John […]
Michael Franzese preaches at Greg Laurie’s Harvest Church on June 26, 2022. | YouTube/Pastor Greg Laurie Michael Franzese, an ex-mob boss-turned-outspoken Christian author and speaker, delivered a message at Pastor Greg Laurie’s California-based megachurch Sunday and stressed the importance of possessing a “healthy” fear of Hell and eternal damnation. As a former second-generation member of […]
Todd Greene/Unsplash Leah Church, a former basketball player who played for the University of North Carolina but later pulled out of the team, recently shared why she chose God over her college sports dream. “It was everything I’d ever dreamed of,” Church told The Gospel Coalition for an article titled “Choosing God over College Basketball.” […]
Former co-founder of Hillsong Brian Houston appeared at a Seattle-area church recently to preach and seemingly referred to the scandals he and the Hillsong church have faced. According to The Roys Report, last week, Houston took the pulpit at Seattle’s Christian Faith Center and preached a sermon called “A Legacy That Outlasts You.” “Understand, yes, […]