September 1, 2015 War Room portrays a God-centered way to fight the battle for healthy families
In the film War Room, many viewers will recognize their own family's struggles. While modern culture promotes a slew of strategies to retreat from marital strife, War Room portrays a God-centered way to fight the battle for healthy families.
August 27, 2015 A group of black women were kicked off a winery tour train after they'd been warned ...
A group of black women were kicked off a winery tour train after they'd been warned three times (according to the tour operator) about laughing too loudly? Other passengers complained, and tour staff repeatedly told them to keep it down. One of the women took to Facebook and blamed the reprimand and banishment on skin color and created the hashtag #laughingwhileblack.
August 25, 2015 Among the first Christian gangsta rap albums, Gang Affiliated remains one of the very best
In 1988, Niggaz with Attitude burst out of Compton, Calif., into middle America, telling tales of urban violence and despair in a harsh but fascinating new language-gangsta rap. The new docudrama of NWA's rise, Straight Outta Compton, continues to top the box office.
August 19, 2015 Millennials, who belong to the generation born between 1980 and 2000, are more likely to value marriage before childbirth as they age
The majority of babies born to millennial mothers will soon be born within wedlock, according to a new forecast released this week. Research is showing that millennials, who belong to the generation born between 1980 and 2000, are more likely to value marriage before childbirth as they age.
August 17, 2015 Several member institutions have set Aug. 31 as the deadline for their decisions
Several institutions plan to leave the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) at the end of August if at that time Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) and Goshen College are still members.
August 12, 2015 The Tennessee school's decision to leave the coalition of Christian colleges could have a ripple effect
JACKSON, Tenn.-Union University has informed the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) that it will withdraw from the coalition in the wake of two member schools changing their hiring policies to include same-sex couples.
August 6, 2015 Scientists at the University of Kentucky recently used a new software program ...
The contents of a 1,500-year-old-parchment scroll, burned so badly it could not be opened without destroying it, has remained a mystery since its excavation, 45 years ago, from inside the Holy Ark of the synagogue at Ein Gedi, Israel, on the western shore of the Dead Sea.
August 4, 2015 It would be difficult to conceive of a movie more out of touch with reality and decency ...
It would be difficult to conceive of a movie more out of touch with reality and decency than the recently released remake of Vacation. Admittedly, secular cultural forces started dissembling the nuclear family long before Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase), in the original 1983 film, station-wagoned his wife, daughter, and son, Rusty, from Chicago to fictional Walley World in Los Angeles. Directors John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein-also two of the remake's three writers-roll out a traditional family unit in the new version, but they plaster it in nastiness.
July 30, 2015 Archeologists believe one grave contains the remains of the colony's first pastor
The excavation of 400-year-old graves from America's first permanent English settlement has opened a rare window into the country's early years. Archaeologists on Tuesday announced their discovery of four skeletons they say belonged to early leaders in Jamestown, Va. One was the colony's first pastor, and the others a British knight and two military captains.
July 28, 2015 Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan on their new TV show, their big family, and 'clean' comedy
The Jim Gaffigan Show premiered on TV Land on July 15-and Gaffigan's reputation as a "clean Christian comedian" is on trial in the first episode. His wife (Ashley Williams) asks him to pick up a Bible from church, a gift from their priest, before he heads to do his stand-up set. The Bible turns out to be a massive tome that Jim has to carry around the rest of the night under the scoffs from his expletive-dropping comedian friends.
July 24, 2015 Throwable, tactical camera will give police advance warning of dangers
Knowing what or who is behind a closed door or in an unseen area can mean the difference between life and death for police and first responders. This summer, police departments nationwide will, literally, get their hands on a technology that they can lob into an unseen area and get a real-time picture of what's going on inside.
July 24, 2015 Two Congressmen introduced legislation yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood ...
Two Congressmen introduced legislation yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood as state governments and congressional committees launch investigations into the abortion giant's fetal tissue sales.
July 20, 2015 Members of both parties on Tuesday blasted preliminary details of a nuclear agreement ...
WASHINGTON-Members of both parties on Tuesday blasted preliminary details of a nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, Germany, and France.
July 13, 2015 You would be hard-pressed to find a more realistic, relevant series than AMC's new sci-fi drama, Humans
Despite the fact that it's set in alternate reality where human-looking androids known as Synthetics (Synths for short) do the lion's share of menial labor, you would be hard-pressed to find a more realistic, relevant series than AMC's new sci-fi drama, Humans.
July 10, 2015 Over the last decade, heroin use has doubled among women and whites ...
Over the last decade, heroin use has doubled among women and whites, with a consistent spike in all regions of the country, according to a new government report.
July 7, 2015 When we expand our view of prayer (of God!) and are open to new and creative ways of praying, we join the cloud of witnesses in the Bible who prayed unusual prayers
My father hasn't done well with the cherry tree this year. My husband looked up the symptoms and it seems a fungus that goes for pitted fruit is the culprit. This morning we went to pick raspberries near the peach tree and we found the same ominous rot spot on a cluster of peaches we had seen on the cherries. As I filled my bucket with berries I heard my father start praying for the peach tree-that God would have mercy on it, that disease would not claim it.
July 7, 2015 Aaron and Melissa Klein are one of several Christian business owners across the country facing state-ordered retribution for refusing to participate in same-sex wedding ceremonies
Oregon's labor commissioner has ordered the owners of a Portland-area bakery to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for whom they declined to bake a wedding cake.
June 24, 2015 South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has added her voice to the chorus calling for the Confederate flag to disappear from the state Capitol grounds in Columbia
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has added her voice to the chorus calling for the Confederate flag to disappear from the state Capitol grounds in Columbia.
June 23, 2015 After a year in exile, 23 InterVarsity chapters will return to 19 California State University (CSU) campuses this fall
After a year in exile, 23 InterVarsity chapters will return to 19 California State University (CSU) campuses this fall.
June 18, 2015 Pick a promise, any promise, and stand upon it, and tell God you are standing upon it
In Act 2, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the kindly Friar says to Romeo, who is being vague and evasive about the jam he is in: "Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift." In other words, vague confessions can only be given vague and unsatisfactory counsel or absolution.
