Spirit
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By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Tuesday, July 01, 2025 Courtesy of Sierra McClain Sierra McClain is used to playing characters with conviction. Whether as Nessa Parker on “Empire” or Grace Ryder on Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star,” the 31-year-old actress said she has always been drawn to roles that require emotional depth and strength of […]
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 Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Wednesday, July 02, 2025 Jen Nizza | Courtesy of Jenn Nizza GRAPEVINE, Texas — Jenn Nizza still remembers the moment the door first opened. She was 13 years old, growing up on Long Island in a culturally Catholic family, when her mother, a hairdresser, hosted a psychic party in […]
In the 1980s and ’90s, a controversy swirled within the evangelical world over the question of biblical inerrancy. A common claim during that time was that the doctrine of inerrancy was an innovation of late nineteenth-century Princeton theologians who were attempting to respond to higher biblical criticism. Before then, the claim continued, Christians did not […]
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Thursday, May 22, 2025 Firefighters extinguish a fire at The Clayborn Temple Church of Memphis, Tennessee, in April 2025. | Screengrab/YouTube/ABC24 Memphis A fire set at a historic African American church in Tennessee that had ties to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was intentionally set, according to local authorities. The Memphis […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Thursday, May 22, 2025 Trent Harmon | Jason Myers When Trent Harmon won “American Idol” in 2016, he didn’t hide his faith. He brought his prayer journal to the stage, played worship songs for fellow contestants and even attended a nearby church during grueling taping weeks. Still, he openly […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, May 19, 2025 The remains of a home are scattered in the aftermath of a tornado that ripped through Laurel County, Kentucky on May 16, 2025. | YouTube/The Weather Channel Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear remembered 19 people killed by a tornado that ripped through the state Friday as children […]
God clearly began something on May 30th and rocked our world on April 6th — the intensity of the services has been overwhelming at times. The feedback coming in (not just from the United States) is also overwhelming. Here is just one of over a dozen in the last few days: “My young son sat with […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, May 15, 2025 U.S. missionary Josh Sullivan recalls being kidnapped in South Africa. | YouTube/WBIR Channel 10 In the six days he spent as a hostage of kidnappers in South Africa in April, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan constantly bobbed between waves of fear and faith as he trusted that […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Thursday, May 15, 2025 Mel Gibson (right) directs actor Jim Caviezel in ‘The Passion of the Christ.’ | 20TH CENTURY FOX Lionsgate has been tapped as the studio partner for “The Resurrection of the Christ,” the long-anticipated follow-up to “The Passion of the Christ,” director Mel Gibson and Lionsgate […]