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A new NBC Christmas special Thursday night featuring Dolly Parton was celebrated as being quirky and funny but also Christ-centric. Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas (TV-PG) debuted on NBC, telling a fictional story of Parton and her friends preparing to put on a network television special. Parton, in a news release, called it a “show within […]
Grammy-winning singer Steven Curtis Chapman says he’s not the type of artist who can write music without being prompted by God. For Chapman, songs are born out of events in his life. “I don’t wake up and say, ‘Hey, I need to go to work and write a song today.’ I find myself moved by […]
A Dallas, Texas, megachurch is responding to social media criticism of its popular Christmas multimedia event by saying, “Jesus deserves our absolute best.” Criticism of Prestonwood Baptist Church’s “The Gift of Christmas” program led to stories in The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, and other Texas-based media. This year’s event is taking place Dec. […]
Sight & Sound Theatres had been producing Broadway-style Bible stage musicals for over four decades when a worldwide pandemic in 2020 shuttered its doors, preventing fans and tourists alike from enjoying the one-of-a-kind attraction. That adversity, though, sparked innovation, with more than 3 million people worldwide on Easter weekend 2020 watching a streaming version of […]
As we are in the thicket of the Thanksgiving holiday season, sometimes it can be easy to get caught up or even lost in all the celebrating. Or we might just find ourselves silently asking, “What is all of this really about anyway?” After all, the motions of life do not stand still simply because […]
Jonathan Majors, left, and Glen Powell in a scene from “Devotion.” | Columbia Pictures This article contains spoilers about “Devotion.” “Devotion,” the stunning aerial drama starring “Top Gun” actor Glen Powell, singer Joe Jonas and more, tells the true story of Jesse Brown, a Christian naval aviator who lost his life in service to his […]
On this Thanksgiving week, the last thing you want to think about this morning is another mass shooting. This is the last thing I wanted to write about as well. But it feels disrespectful to the victims and their families not to acknowledge the horrific tragedies of recent days. From the nightclub shooting in […]
Hillsong United singer and songwriter Benjamin William Hastings is launching a solo music career. Hastings’ debut album is self-titled and includes 25 tracks. “I started (the album) quite a while ago,” he said. “I mean, some of the songs have been in existence in some form for about 10 years, but I really started working […]
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant waves an ISIS flag in Raqqa, on June 29, 2014. | Reuters/Stringer A 24-year-old Syrian refugee has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for providing material support to the Islamic State terror group as part of a plan to […]
A chart-rising song by Christian singer Anne Wilson was birthed out of a time of insecurity in her life as a teenager. Wilson’s song Hey Girl has spent 21 weeks on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart, reminding girls and women alike that they should not let “everybody and their mother try to tell you what […]