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Franklin – Father Michael van der Peet nodded knowingly after news media around the world reported that a new book says Mother Teresa suffered decades of deep doubts and spiritual darkness.Read more of this story.
OCEANSIDE – Krump. Some mistake it for an energy drink, while others have never heard of it. For 12 young men in Oceanside, the high-energy dance form is a spiritual movement they plan to share with others through their dance group, One Accord.Read more of this story.
The lower portion of the Jordan River is so polluted that the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has designated it an Endangered Cultural Heritage Site. The WMF, the leading international body for the protection of monuments, placed the revered river on its watch list of 100 endangered sites in June.Read more of this story.
DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)–In the first such ruling for America’s heartland, an Iowa judge Aug. 30 struck down the state’s ban on "gay marriage" and ordered Iowa’s most populous county to begin granting marriage licenses immediately to homosexual couples.Read more of this story.
NEAR a prairie dotted with cattle and green with soy beans, barley, corn and oats, two bearded Hasidic men dressed in black pray outside a slaughterhouse here that is managed by an evangelical Christian. What brought these men together could easily have kept them apart: religion. Read more of this story.
COMMENTARYWhen it comes to statistics about religion, Europe is an urbane continent full of empty cathedrals, while America offers rows of suburban mega-churches.Consider what happens when the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life asks a basic "salience question" to determine the level of interest in faith-related matters around the world. Participants are asked to answer "yes" or "no" in response to this statement: "Religion is very important to me."Read more of this story.
COMMENTARYI was asked an important question this week in the context of a gathering of future evangelical leaders: What one thing would bring about renewal and revival in America? Who could claim to know the answer? But I do know what first entered my mind. If there is going to be real renewal, real revival –at least in America – there will have to be widespread repentance for how we have failed to answer Jesus’ plea for demonstrable unity and shared grace among those who follow Christ.Read more of this story.
PHOENIX (Reuters Life!) – Shock-rocker Alice Cooper has a surprise for those who only see him as the man in haunting black makeup with a stage show featuring mock hangings, real snakes and plenty of fake blood.The self-styled "Prince of Darkness" is throwing his energy into building a Christian teen center in Phoenix for at-risk youths from the area, hoping to break ground by November.Read more of this story.
In Illinois, several successful megachurches already have opened Chicago branches, including Naperville’s Community Christian Church and South Barrington’s Willow Creek Community Church, which holds services at the historic Auditorium Theatre near Grant Park.Read more of this story.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (ANS) — Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (CRPC) in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.., today announced the retirement of its senior pastor Dr. D. James Kennedy.Read more of this story.