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Chick-fil-A regularly tops lists as America’s favorite restaurant, and a new survey shows it’s the favorite among teenagers, too. The “Taking Stock With Teens” survey by Piper Sandler has Chick-fil-A as the favorite restaurant among 15 percent of teens, followed by Starbucks (12 percent), Chipotle (7 percent), McDonald’s (6 percent) and Olive Garden (3 percent). It […]
October 17, 2022 (Morning Star News) – When authorities in Iran summoned a Christian couple in Tehran on Aug. 13, the house-church members supposed it concerned the return of their confiscated belongings. Instead, Homayoun Zhaveh and his wife Sara Ahmadi were detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison, notorious for its harsh treatment of people deemed political […]
Singer and songwriter Cody Carnes says the chart-topping hit The Blessing was birthed during a late-night songwriting session that nearly didn’t happen yet ended with him and others believing God had dropped “a song in the room.” The Blessing was released just before the pandemic in March 2020 and quickly climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s […]
A 23-year-old American Idol finalist was killed in a car accident Tuesday, just one month before he was to perform at a Baptist church in London and just hours after he posted a video on social media singing a powerful rendition of the hymn You Are My Hiding Place. Willie Spence, who grew up in […]
American Idol runner up Willie Spence , 2021 | Screenshot: YouTube/Idols Global Willie Spence, who gained national fame on “American Idol” last year, where he shared his faith and powerful voice and eventually became runner-up in the singing competition, tragically died in a car accident on Tuesday. According to authorities, Spence’s 2019 Jeep Cherokee “left […]
Former Hawaii Representative and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the Democratic Party, which she denounced as an “elitist cabal of warmongers.” Her announcement reminds us of Ronald Reagan’s famous statement, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” As the leader of a nonpartisan ministry, my intention today is not […]
Skillet frontman John Cooper refuted the notion that rock music was created by the devil, arguing that all music, including rock, ultimately belongs to God. In a recent interview on the California-based pastor Shane Idleman’s podcast Idleman Unplugged, Cooper cautiously turned to scripture to defend his stance. Citing Titus 1:15 – which reads, “To the […]
Two terms that were new to me were in the weekend news. Each is a window into our cultural soul. The first is “sleep tourism,” which is trending since sleep deprivation is such a problem for so many Americans. For example, hotels in New York City and London now feature rooms with sleep-enhancing amenities […]
Silverton, Colorado | Dennis Lennox A recent early fall trip to Colorado brought me back to one of my favorite places anywhere in the Centennial State. The old mining town of Silverton with its population of just 612 souls was established in 1874. Remarkably, the streetscape is mostly original to late 19th and early 20th […]
Members of Southwest Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Florida, worshiped on Oct. 2, 2022, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. | Screenshot: Facebook/Charles Peek Four days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm, wreaking billions of dollars in damage and leaving at least 80 people dead, members of the […]