Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social conservative. At least that’s the way one of his surviving family members is characterizing him on the 25h anniversary of the holiday that bears his name. MLK’s nice, Dr. Alveda King, director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life, says advice columns her uncle wrote for […]
As MLK parades get under way from coast to coast to honor the slain civil rights icon, more than 40 African-American religious and political leaders gathered this morning at the Freedom Baptist Church in Hillside, Ill. to contest what they see as a misrepresentation of King’s legacy and civil rights. The group has taken issue
Endangered Species. Those two words are at the heart of a new campaign that aims to raise awareness of the abortion of African-American babies. The statistics are troubling. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the black abortion rate is three times that of whites and twice as high as all other races combined. “The
Admitted Marcus Lamb, founder and president of Daystar, to infidelity. On a Nov. 30 broadcast, the televangelist and his wife, Joni, addressed an affair Marcus had “several years ago” after three former employees allegedly threatened to reveal the story unless the Lambs paid them $7.5 million. The Christian TV network owners vowed their marriage is
Prayer can be frustrating if we don’t understand God’s Word and His ways. Most Christians aren’t aware that there are several types of prayer discussed in God’s Word, and if you use one type when you should be using another, it won’t work. You would be applying the wrong spiritual tool to your needs or
Are you going to church regularly? Do you have a few good friends in the congregation? A new study concludes those are two keys to a happier life. Just how important is the friend factor at church? A study released in the December issue of the American Sociological Review finds that even going to church
Some stereotypes are true—at least that’s what a recent report about regional churchgoing habits proves. The findings, drawn from two reports titled Markets 2011 and States 2011, “confirmed many spiritual assumptions about various regions of the country,” says David Kinnaman, who directed the seven-year research project for the Barna Group. “The South hosts many of the nation’s Christians,
There is very little accountability among Christians in the U.S., a new survey found.
Only 5 percent of Christian adults indicated that their church does anything to hold them accountable for integrating biblical beliefs and principles into their life, according to the Barna Group.
Evangelicals were most likely to have some form of church-centered accountability.
George Barna, director of the survey, stressed that mutual accountability is one of the cornerstones of the biblical concept of community.
Many Christian groups make it their business to try to cure spiritual blindness. But Eyes of Faith Optical in West Middlesex, Pa., seeks to address spiritual blindness by helping people with their physical eyesight first. The organization is the first faith-based company to be members of the Opticians Association of America. But their greatest accolade as
Don’t allow gift-giving expectations to put you deeper in debt and rob you of the true joy of the season
I know what you’re thinking: Here they come. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s; gifts to buy, meals to prepare, decorating, houseguests, parties to attend, church activities, neighborhood events, school productions–and a partridge in a pear tree.
It’s exhausting, isn’t it? Add the fact that the last few years have been financially disappointing for most of us, and it’s no wonder we get a heavy feeling in the pit of our stomachs when the calendar page flips over to November.
Bill Wilson has spent the last 30 years taking Sunday school to inner-city kids
Bill Wilson has been thrown off a building, mugged and shot in the face. But none of that has stopped him from leading sidewalk Sunday school every week in New York’s inner city.
As he marks 30 years of ministry this year, he says the thing that has kept him going is simply commitment. “It’s like anything else; it’s a decision,” Wilson says.
Operation Christmas Child of Samaritan’s Purse has partnered with the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, set for release on Dec. 10. Operation Narnia encourages Narnia fans to join the effort to show the love of Christ to millions of children around the world with shoebox gifts. “We’re very excited
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