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PIKESVILLE, Md. — At Restoring Life International Church, pastor June Robinson wears several hats — and not the big fancy ones you might expect for a pastor’s wife.Standing in the pulpit with her husband, senior pastor Kenneth Robinson, she encourages the congregation to join them on a mission trip to her native Guyana to help them see "how blessed you are in America."Read more of this story.
Last summer, Slate deputy editor David Plotz, a Harvard-educated Reform Jew, found himself bored out of his mind at a cousin’s bat mitzvah. Rather than feigning interest, he reached into the back of a pew and started to read an English translation of the Torah.He opened to the soap opera-like saga of Jacob’s sons seeking to avenge the rape of their sister Dinah—and found himself utterly engrossed. The experience became his impetus behind a Slate series called "Blogging the Bible." Started in September 2006, the blog records Plotz’s progress and comments as he reads through the entire Old Testament, a…
Energized by a near-capacity crowd of about 2,200 Catholic men and boys, organizers of last weekend’s Men of Christ Conference in West Bend are planning a second annual gathering for next Feb. 23 while considering other follow-up activities. Read more of this story.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (ANS) — Moses and the Baby Jesus, "God in the flesh," were honored Tuesday night at the 15th Annual Movieguide® Faith & Values Awards Gala, held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. "The Ten Commandments," an ABC-TV production about the Prophet Moses, took home the $50,000 John Templeton Foundation Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring TV Program of 2006. "The Nativity Story," a movie about the Virgin Mary, her husband Joseph and the birth of Jesus Christ won the $50,000 John Templeton Foundation Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring Movie of 2006.Read more of…
In the face of heated criticism, Bishop Robert Morlino defended his service on a federal advisory board for a controverisal U.S. military school on Thursday night.More than 80 people packed the Catholic Multicultural Center for a discussion on Morlino’s position as chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the Americas.Read more of this story.
EDITORIALThe 19th-century abolitionists have much to teach us about politics today. American evangelicals continue to fret over their political engagement—with good reason. Our core commitments focus on church, family, and evangelization, while the political process often produces polarization and nastiness that can drown out the fundamental message of salvation in Jesus.Read more of this editorial.More on WilberforceGary Haugen: A modern WilberforceMore comments from Gary Haugen27million people in the world today are in slaveryJoin us for a special, reduced-admission screening of the movie, Amazing Grace.Amazing Grace movie website
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Sundays at the evangelical Grace Chapel megachurch look like the American ideal of race relations: African-American, Haitian, white, Chinese and Korean families sing along with a white, guitar-playing pastor.U.S. churches rarely have this kind of ethnic mix. But that’s changing. Researchers who study race and religion say Grace Chapel is among a vanguard of megachurches that are breaking down racial barriers in American Christianity, altering the long-segregated landscape of Sunday worship.Read more of this story.Megachurch attracts the trendy, the tech-savvy and controversy. Read more of this story.
CommentaryChristian radio employees usually don’t get the Rock Star treatment but 20 years ago this month I got a taste of it. It was pretty nice, a limo ride to work in the morning, strangers buying me dinner in restaurants, my picture on billboards across town and being the toast of the morning newspaper. I was the Mad City Radio Hero, by official proclamation of the Wisconsin State Journal, along with my co-host Donna Norland.
LONDON (Reuters) – For Anglicans who still haven’t found what they’re looking for, the Church of England is staging its first "U2-charist" communion service — replacing hymns with hit songs by the Irish supergroup.Read more of this story.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (ANS) — This weekend more than 2,500 churches throughout the USA will sing Amazing Grace — marking the release of a new film on the life of William Wilberforce.Sharing the title of John Newton’s famous hymn, the film tells the story of Wilberforce’s 20-year fight to bring an end to the slave trade in the British Empire. Christians will sing the hymn on Sunday, February 18 in the United States and on Sunday, March 25 in Great Britain. Read more on this story.