The report is difficult to believe: A paid “anti-bullying” expert is caught on video ranting at a national convention of high schoolers and is recorded bullying the Christian kids who were offended by his obscenities. They quietly follow his advice to homosexual youth in his “It Gets Better Project”– to passively walk away from bullies, but instead of praising them, he mocks them.
It seems that at the National High School Journalism Convention, author and sexual advice radio...
Will the church of the future be on line?
We seem to be heading that way, says think-tank president Ron Sellers who points to recent findings that among American adults who use the Internet, 44 percent use it for religious purposes.Â
"This is particularly common among younger Americans," says Sellers, who heads up Grey Matter...
Is there an unwritten religious litmus test for the U.S. presidency? Do voters require candidates to be "not just religious, but acceptably religious"? Yes, say Northwest Nazarene University professors Steve Shaw and Darrin Grinder.
If they are right, will Mitt Romney’s Mormonism doom his bid for the presidency? After all, Catholicism was blamed for New York Gov. Al Smith’s loss to Herbert Hoover in 1928. Smith was denounced by vocal Southern Baptists and German Lutherans who were...
The daughter of an Oral Roberts University trustee was pulled from the wreckage of a crashed small aircraft by a former U.S. Marine sergeant severely injured in the crash, who then helped her wave down help along a highway.
Three were killed in the crash, and former U.S. Marines Sgt. Austin Anderson, recently returned from two tours in Iraq, died after being airlifted to a Wichita, Kansas, hospital.
The five had been on their way to an Iowa youth crusade.
Hannah Luce, 22,...
He's just a kid – a university law student – but K. Sudhagaran Stanley is using the tools he has, the Internet, to demand change for his homeland.
Last week, it put his life at risk -- but he texted and Facebooked all the way through a dramatic confrontation with police in which the devout young Christian says God delivered him from angry police.
Stanley and thousands like him have been marching in the streets of Malaysia's cities and sharing every moment of it on Twitter,...
Has T.D. Jakes ever had to forgive?
“Oh, yes,” answers the author of the new book Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven and pastor of The Potter's House, a 30,000-member church in Dallas.
“I was born in West Virginia in the 1960s in an area that was about 5 percent African-American. So, growing up, I had plenty of opportunities to forgive,” he recalls. “I’ve had a lot of practice.”
Today, his congregation is used to hearing him share stories of his own...
A fear of witchcraft? In our enlightened age?
According to Reuters, the British news agency, a woman from the island of Sri Lanka off the southern tip of India has been charged with casting a spell on a 13-year-old Saudi girl during her family's trip to a shopping mall.
In Zimbabwe, local leader Maliki Masuku fined Shadreck Dube for performing witchcraft and “terrorizing nurses at Nathisa Clinic” in Mapoto.
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete in a New Year address to the nation...
Can Disney pretty-boy teenybopper Zac Efron, the Ken doll from Hairspray, the crooning, high-stepping big-man-on-campus in the High School Musical movies pull of a leading role as a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant?
Former Marines just home from Iraq don't comb Justin Bieber-style bangs.Â
A few weeks ago, my son, a U.S. Marines sergeant, came home from Afghanistan and spent the weekend with me, bringing along two buddies from Camp Lejeune. All were serious and respectful –...
Should we be worried that Iran is about to tip the entire world into World War III? Are some folks reading far too much into all of today’s saber-rattling? Are they drawing wild conclusions from popular interpretations of Bible prophecy flying around the Internet?
Or is history's final battle just around the corner?
Many Christians grew up hearing that the Bible foretells of one final war between Israel and many of the nations of the world. Popular interpretations of Old Testament...
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