Author: Gordon Govier

MONTREAT, NC (ANS) — President Barack Obama made a brief visit on Sunday afternoon (April 25, 2010) to see Billy Graham, the 91-year-old evangelist, at his mountaintop log cabin in Montreat, North Carolina. Graham has been a spiritual adviser to U.S. presidents for seven decades. The president met with Mr. Graham for 35 minutes as Obama ended a brief vacation in nearby Asheville, and then prepared to depart for a solemn memorial service in West Virginia on behalf of the 29 miners who died when an explosion rocked their Upper Big Branch mine on April 5, 2010.

TOWN OF COTTAGE GROVE — Customers of America’s Best Flowers would be hard pressed to miss the religion amid the rhododendron. For years, the garden center has used its slogan, “Beauty with God’s help for you,” on billboards, and many of those giant signs now form a colorful backdrop for the center’s main retail space.Ed Knapton, who owns the garden center with his wife, Carol, said being a born-again Christian fills him with such warmth he wants to shout about it

The man who originally introduced the name "Earth Day" was a Pentecostal minister, according to the Assemblies of God (AG) Heritage magazine.John McConnell introduced "Earth Day" at the 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment. The next year, Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin) moved Earth Day to April 22, when he held a political protest.

Almost two dozen members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, came together Wednesday to issue a resolution calling on the Obama Administration to strongly appeal the recent ruling by a Wisconsin federal judge declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) They don’t serve Powdermilk Biscuits in the Collins Alumni Auditorium at Lipscomb University, not far from downtown Nashville. There’s no Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, Guy Noir is nowhere in sight. And if Brother Preacher ever got hold of Garrison Keillor, he might Bible thump him all the way back to Lake Wobegon. Still, if “A Prairie Home Companion” ever moved south and came to Jesus, it might look a lot like “Tokens.”  

Russ Stendal, held hostage by terrorists for 142 days in the 1980s, is now taking the Bible to places where angels fear to tread: deep into Colombia’s Texas-sized jungle regions, where terrorists, soldiers, and paramilitaries have been fighting since 1964.Stendal belongs to a group of missions leaders and indigenous pastors who serve in remote areas of Colombia, one of the world’s most violent mission fields.

With more than 4,000 colleges and universities available in the United States, choosing a college is a daunting task if you are a graduating high school student. And considering that your choice may shape the trajectory of the rest of your life, its significance can’t be underestimated.

For 25 years CareNet Pregnancy Center of Dane County has been offering free services to pregnant women and others, growing from a small office on Madison’s west side to a building offering comprehensive services on the east side. CareNet marked its 25th anniversary with an open house Sunday afternoon, April 18, 2010, at its offices at 1350 MacArthur Road.

On Monday, April 19, 2010, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court hear arguments in a case that will have a major impact on campus ministry. The case involves the Christian Legal Society (CLS) chapter at the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. CLS is a ministry partner with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on many law school campuses across the country.

How do you get a whole campus, one of the largest campuses in the U.S., to listen to God? That’s the goal next week when InterVarsity brings The Price of Life Invitational to Ohio State University (OSU).InterVarsity is partnering with other campus Christian organizations, local churches, and anti-trafficking organizations, to raise awareness about the evils of human trafficking and 21st century slavery.