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At the age of 24, Heather Nichols has taught songs to kids in Thailand and has been to Africa twice to assist surgeons. She has led a missionary trip to inner-city Philadelphia and is about to do another. And she closed out her year here in St. Louis with more than 22,000 of her closest friends in Christ. Read more.
WASHINGTON — The new Congress will, for the first time, include a Muslim, two Buddhists, more Jews than Episcopalians, and the highest-ranking Mormon in congressional history.Roman Catholics remain the largest single faith group in Congress, accounting for 29 percent of all members of the House and Senate, followed by Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews and Episcopalians.Read more.
News ReleaseBreast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research that was funded by the National Cancer Institute. Read more.
We can never know the real story about a President’s faith. We only know what he does — or refuses to do — in God’s name. Voters were unwilling to forgive Gerald Ford for his great act of forgiveness, the unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon. But there was another side to the pardon, the presidency and the 1976 campaign that received much less attention, in part because Ford wanted it that way. The contest between Ford and Jimmy Carter was a battle between two born-again Christians — but only one was willing to run as one. Read more.
Martin Luther wrote the lyrics centuries ago, but the eighth-note rock rhythms that pulsated through St. Marcus Lutheran Church on Christmas Eve clearly proclaimed that this was new terrain for "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come." Read more.
(St. Louis, MO)—American students of the current generation are serious about following God, said Urbana 06 director Jim Tebbe as InterVarsity’s 21st Student Missions Convention came to a close on New Year’s Eve. “It seems that there’s a different tenor to it than even 2003, the last Urbana,” Tebbe said. “There’s a serious of purpose here that has surprised me.” Read more.
(St. Louis, MO)—Since Christianity is expanding rapidly in the non-western world, where seventy five percent of Protestant Christians now live, some people may conclude that missionaries are no longer needed. But not according to Oscar Muriu, the pastor of Nairobi Chapel in Nairobi, Kenya, who spoke at Thursday night’s plenary at the Urbana 06 Student Missions Convention, at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. Read more.
(St Louis, MO) – A record crowd of more than 22,000 Urbana 06 attendees stood to their feet with a Bible in one hand and a cell phone in the other as Urbana director Jim Tebbe opened the 21st triennial convention by asking them to pray a special request to God. “Ask God, ‘What does your Word, the Bible, have to say about my world?’ represented by your cell phone.” Read more.
Along a narrow road just outside of Bethlehem, shepherds trooped to their fields, as the eastern sky began to glow with the approaching dawn. Their minds were still reeling from the busy, confusing night. First they had been stunned by a fearsome angel with an announcement, followed by a spectacular sound and light show featuring an angel choir. They were directed to a stable in Bethlehem, where they found a young mother and father hovering over a manger, which cradled their new-born baby. When they told the new parents about the angels, they didn’t seemed surprised at all. In fact…
Dannie Carter has a soft, dry voice. "It’s all just praising God," he says. "It don’t matter what kind of building you have. The building is not God. God is inside of you. This is just a structure where we gather to worship God." For Carter, the structure is the Rodeway Inn on East Broadway where Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church has met for three years.Come Sunday mornings, you can go to the motel’s Terrace Room for breakfast or take a right down the corridor to the Illinois Room for spiritual nourishment.Christ the Solid Rock is one of a…