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Shama Mrema | Courtesy of Shama Mrema When it comes to poking fun at church culture, comedian Shama Mrema doesn’t have to look far for content. He simply thinks back to his childhood as a church planter’s kid in Africa, his time as a student at a Bible college in South Carolina, or his brief […]
Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images It all started, as most bombshells do these days, with a cryptic tweet. On May 8, Elon Musk tweeted, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” which, as one might expect, spurred no small conversation on Twitter about Musk’s eternal destiny. When one of his now 122 million […]
Bodie Kuljian performs on NBC’s “The Voice” Season 22 in a video posted online Nov. 28, 2022. | YouTube/The Voice “The Voice” winner Bryce Leatherwood shared his love for fan-favorite Bodie after fans chanted the latter’s name during the season finale, stressing that he, too, would’ve rooted for his fellow contestant. Leatherwood, who won season […]
Lakewood Music | Lakewood Church Lakewood Music members Alexandra Osteen and Ramiro Garcia have reflected on the importance of highlighting the goodness of God through song and using worship music as a medium to offer hope to a hurting world. The group, which launched out of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, recently released […]
Among all the memorable moments in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, one of my favorites comes near the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Caspian and his crew land on an island inhabited by a retired star named Ramandu. True to form, young Eustace Scrubb puts his foot in his mouth: […]
Christmas is a time when families get together and celebrate traditions. While the holidays can be festive and exhausting, it can be easy to forget the reason for the season. As believers, we are remembering and celebrating the birth of Jesus. For Bible scholars and historians, we know Jesus was most likely not born on […]
The January 6 Committee of the US House of Representatives voted yesterday to send referrals to the Justice Department recommending that former President Donald Trump be criminally prosecuted. The House Select Committee referrals include obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, making a false statement, and inciting, assisting, or […]
The number of documented attacks on churches has steadily increased in recent months and years, with a dramatic uptick in 2022 in abortion-related vandalism related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a landmark new report. The report by the D.C.-based Family Research Council uncovered a total of 420 documented […]
Firefighters respond to a fire at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Parish in Bethesda, Maryland on June 10, 2022. | Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 […]
Bodie Kuljian performs on NBC’s “The Voice” Season 22 in a video posted online Nov. 28, 2022. | YouTube/The Voice “The Voice” Season 22 runner-up Bodie says his breakup with depression after connecting with God inspired him to write the song “Happy Now,” seeking to raise awareness of the rising rates of suicide and warning […]