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Later this spring the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are expected to hear arguments in the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. InterVarsity is among 18 organizations filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in this case. The justices’ decision will have a major impact on campus ministry.
The murder of two young street preachers in Florida by a teenager whom they shared the Gospel with is “alarming,” said a spokesperson for a religious freedom watchdog group.Eighteen-year-old Jeriah Woody, whose street name is “Plug,” is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Woody allegedly shot and killed Tite Sufra, 24, and Stephen Ocean, 23, on Jan. 30 after they shared about Christ with him during the 15 minutes they talked.
After his history-making performance in the 1980 Olympics, Mark Johnson spent 11 years in the NHL with Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Hartford, St. Louis and New Jersey. It was during his time with the New Jersey Devils in the mid-1980s when Johnson’s life took a new direction. He had been married for a few years by this point and had a couple of kids."I sort of came to the point in my life where I was looking for some answers and had some questions," Johnson said.
In the darkness of the quiet stone church on Ash Wednesday, I went forward to the front at the end of a long line and, when my turn came, knelt before the pastor. He prayed, "Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen." Then he dipped his thumb in a small dish of ashes and, with…
On the evening of December 30th, as he delivered the call to commitment at the Urbana 09 student missions conference, Urbana director Jim Tebbe announced a commitment of his own. Next June he will be leaving InterVarsity and his home in Madison to return to a part of the world where he was born, grew up, and worked earlier in his life.
Mike Mieritz of Oshkosh has seen firsthand the destructive power of nature while serving on relief teams sent by his church in recent years to New Orleans, and Thailand, and Belize.But the retired pharmacist struggled Friday for the words to describe the needs in Haiti, where he is working with a medical team treating the sick and injured from last month’s cataclysmic earthquake.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In a time when many Americans accept that a 50 percent divorce rate is inevitable, some communities have found ways to nearly "divorce-proof" the marriages in their area. One example is the Kansas City metro area. While the divorce rate in Kansas City, Mo. was going up between 1995 and 2005, just across the border in smaller Kansas City, Kan., the divorce rate was plunging.
Olympics fans heading to Vancouver might want to visit a vanishing cultural treasure while they’re in Canada — local churches.Canada has become a "post-Christian society" where once-dominant Anglicanism has "moved to the margins of public life," according to a bleak study reported by Michael Valpy at the Globe and Mail.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new country music star has been born – and with a pro-life ballad, no less, that is steadily climbing the country music charts. Matt Kennon’s debut hit single “the Call” has risen to No. 39 on the Billboard 200 list of top country music hits and packs a compelling pro-life, or what some may call a “whole life," message.
The Rev. Chuck Swindoll, pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, and a worldwide Christian radio presence, finished second only to Billy Graham in a new survey that asked Protestant pastors to name the living Christian preachers that had most influenced them. Graham was named by 21 percent of the roughly 900 pastors who responded, and Swindoll by 8 percent.