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iStock/lisatop Churches across Florida canceled services, offered help, and hunkered down as Hurricane Idalia made landfall as an “extremely dangerous Category 3” storm Wednesday, and at least two people have already died in weather-related crashes across the state. “Hurricane Idalia has made landfall in Florida, bringing flooding and damage, and is now headed to Georgia […]
A recent Pew Research Study found that more than half of Americans believe they’ve been visited in some way by a dead relative. About 53 percent say they believe they’ve been visited by a dead family member in a dream or some other way. The survey included Americans of all religious backgrounds, including Jews, Muslims, […]
Lauren Handy, the director of activism at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), speaks during a March 2023 rally in Washington, D.C. | The Christian Post/ Nicole Alcindor A jury found five pro-life activists guilty of violating federal law in connection with a 2020 blockade of a Washington, D.C., abortion facility, and all of the defendants were […]
Much has been said and written about the Barbie movie. If anything, the amount of hand-wringing over the movie’s virtues and vices is, at least, a testimony to its power as a thought-provoking cultural phenomenon. At the risk of being reductionistic, Barbie is about seeing that which has been unseen or even ignored. Particularly, Barbie […]
‘Why can’t God use Richie?’ says Pastor Joey Tellez A screenshot of Richie the Barber from an August 2023 video. | Screenshot: YouTube/RichieTheBarber A Southern California pastor is helping a self-described clown barber to become a pastor himself after documenting his conversion on social media. Richie the Barber, whose real name is Richie Esposito, is […]
Young adults attend The Porch, a young adult community founded by Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas. | Watermark Community Church One out of every six regular churchgoers in the United States has had, paid for or encouraged an abortion, while one-fifth doesn’t believe the Bible identifies when life begins, a new study suggests. The […]
Oliver Anthony elaborates on the intended message of his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” as well as his faith in God in a video posted to YouTube, Aug. 25, 2023. | Screenshot: YouTube/Oliver Anthony Music The singer behind the anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” attributes the song’s success to “divine intervention” as he […]
Sarah Young | Jesus Calling/Screengrab Sarah Young, author of the devotional Jesus Calling, is in “rapidly failing” health, her publisher, Thomas Nelson, revealed in a statement asking her supporters for prayers. “We received the hard news that Sarah’s health is rapidly failing,” Thomas Nelson Publishers wrote in a social media post last week. “We know […]
The entrance to King’s College (TKC or simply King’s), a private Christian liberal arts college at 56 Broadway in New York, N.Y., August 17, 2022. | iStock/JHVEPhoto The King’s College, a prominent Christian liberal arts college in New York City, is expected to lose its accreditation by the end of August. The Middle States Commission […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, addresses mourners at a prayer vigil in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday August 28, 2023. | YouTube/First Coast News Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the white man who fatally shot three black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville because of their race, “a major league scumbag” at a prayer vigil […]