Despite the disappointing box-office tally of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walden Media is looking to produce the fourth film in the franchise based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s fantasy novels. “We are starting to talk to (20th Century Fox) and the C.S. Lewis estate now about The Magician’s Nephew […]
After teaching junior high school in New York City for decades, Steven Sherman was losing hope for his students amid the drug-related violence that plagued Manhattan. Then he read a news article about an 11-year-old boy who refused to smoke crack with the neighborhood bully. The bully hit him in the head with a shovel, dragged
Thanks, in part, to its traffic-generating domain name, Bible.com is one of the most visible Bible resources online. Now, Bible.com has a fresh new look with a redesign of its Web site.
“This effort is all about putting the Bible into the hands and hearts of a global audience,” says Stacy Fornara, CEO of Bible.com, “Our Christian Web site has grown from 172,000 unique visitors per month in 1997 to over 1.5 million today without much promotion. We have invested significant resources to continuously gift the Bible and provide cutting-edge online resources; our overall goal is to positively impact worldwide exposure of the Bible.”
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
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