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The question facing universities looking to compete in the booming market for online higher education is not so much how to do it, but how to distinguish themselves from the rest. In this, Christian universities appear to have a built-in advantage. And many are seizing the opportunity to expand their footprint."Given the relatively strong religious character of much of the U.S. population, and an ever more crowded online market, the schools that that are faith-based in some strong sense" have an advantage over others, the majority of whom have built "more generic programs that don’t have any strong affiliation with…
The ancient people of the Levant — present day Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories — believed their gods lived on a massive mountain in the north. The Canaanites called it Mount Zaphon, and to them it represented the heavens.A thousand years later, the author of Job referred to the Canaanite mountain as a way to explain God’s creation of the cosmos. "He stretches out Zaphon over the void," Job explains, "and hangs the earth upon nothing."Job’s image often ran through the mind of Col. Jeffrey Williams as he looked down on Earth during two missions on the International…
When pastor Mitri Raheb finds someone who is surprised to learn that he is a Palestinian Arab Christian he assures them that there are many Christian Arabs living in the Palestinian territories. And also in Israel.Speaking in Madison Sunday afternoon, the pastor of the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem said that he sometimes asks people if they know when the gospel message was first preached to Arabs in Jerusalem. Many respond with a guess that it was sometime during the 19th century.
With America seeing huge attacks against the Christian faith, one congressman is not sitting idly by and allowing Christianity to be pushed out of the public square. "Over the last several decades we have seen this constant erosion of just an access to the marketplace of ideas," Virginia Congressman Randy Forbes said on Friday’s Family Talk radio broadcast."We don’t want to dominate the marketplace," he noted. "We don’t want to control it. We just want to have faith and religion having a seat at the table." Forbes is the founder and chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus and active in…
When it comes to the issue of immigration reform, there’s no shortage of opinions or passions — not only from politicians, but also from the pulpit. "The issue of immigration is one that affects us as a church family," said Rich Nathan of the Vineyard Church of Columbus.Now, a group of conservative evangelicals, including Southern Baptist Leader Richard Land, have come together with a message for the nation’s leaders.
SOUTH AFRICA (ANS) — Excitement is reaching fever pitch as South Africa gears up for the first football (soccer) World Cup to be held on African soil.Beginning on Friday, June 11, 2010, the FIFA World Cup will encompass 30 days of football (soccer) played in 10 stadiums scattered over 9 cities. They are expecting over 300,000 visitors from all parts of the world. This will translate into 2.74 million spectators with a TV audience of some 40 billion watching the 200 hours of football. Half the world will be able to watch the final which expects to see 3.3 billion…
COMMENTARYGet ready. Big changes are coming to the United States military. Congress seems poised to pass legislation that would call for the elimination of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy put in place in 1993. With the support of the Obama administration, and with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, it appears that the official normalization of homosexuality within the U.S. armed forces may take place sometime this summer, after the completion of a Pentagon review.
NASHVILLE, TN (ANS) — Known for his logic and wit, Stuart Briscoe has been preaching since he was just 17 years old. Now, edging close to 80 years young, he shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, he continues teaching the Bible on around the world.
COMMENTARYIn the never-ending battle of the technological titans, score one for Steve Jobs. He’s done something extraordinary—he’s brought good values into the mix.Jobs has made it clear that he wants to keep pornography off Apple products as much as possible. Obviously Apple can’t control everything its users do, but it can make porn scarcer on its products, and it has done just that.
Hall of Famer John Wooden, who died Friday just four months shy of his 100th birthday, was most known as the greatest coach who ever lived, leading UCLA’s men’s basketball team to 10 national championships, including an astonishing seven straight from 1967 to 1973, a stretch that included 88 consecutive victories.That’s how he’s most remembered. But perhaps he’ll be best remembered as a mentor, a friend, a loving husband and father, and a source of endless wisdom and grace to hundreds of players, thousands of coaches, and millions of fans and admirers through the decades and around the world. Wooden…