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She says she is 26, but she looks younger. Tattoos cover her arms, a ladybug among them. A sales tag hangs from her purse. Sunglasses-big, cheap and gaudy-are perched on her head. She is small, feminine, attractive. Immediately she bursts into tears. The details of her appearance do little to convey who she is. But […]

Tucked between a tarot card reader and a Rastafarian artist, Cindy McGill is offering “Organic Spiritual Alignments” at her table along the circuslike boardwalk of Venice Beach, California. As part of an innovative outreach to the New Age movement, McGill is giving “Free Spiritual Readings” and dream interpretations in this bohemian community in Southern California.

When Ray Comfort started the Comfort Food blog, he intended to encourage Christians. But so many atheists kept leaving notes that the blog morphed into Atheist Central, a daily offering of questions and barbs from atheists. The only rule: Comfort deletes blasphemous or uncivil messages and those in which “God” or “Jesus” isn’t capitalized. He

Tyndale House Publishers is to publish a memoir by Gayle Haggard, wife of the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggard. In Why I Stayed, to be released in January 2010, she will share a message of forgiveness and love regarding her husband, also the founder and ex-senior pastor of New Life

With surveys showing that more American Christians are becoming biblically illiterate, many proponents of the Sunday school model have argued for a churchwide return to weekly Bible classes—especially for children and youth. Yet a new study by Ken Ham, founder of apologetics ministry Answers in Genesis, indicates that Sunday school may actually lead teens to

Wondering where all the young single adults in your church have gone? If you’re the pastor of a small- or medium-size congregation, you may want to check the nearest megachurch.

That’s because singles are three times as likely to attend a megachurch and make up one-third of those churches’ congregations, according to a study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research that surveyed nearly 25,000 people at 12 megachurches throughout the country.

Just two days before Angels and Demons, the sequel to the blockbuster film The Da Vinci Code, hit theaters Friday, Westminster Theological Seminary launched a website www.thetruthaboutangelsanddemons.com designed to juxtapose the film’s facts from its fiction. The 2005 Da Vinci Code film, which claimed Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered a child with her, left

Steven Curtis Chapman won Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year during Thursday’s 40th Annual Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards, capping an emotional year for the most decorated singer and songwriter in Christian music. Chapman, who was named Artist of the Year for the seventh time, has collected five GRAMMY Awards and

The dramatization of an unlikely South African evangelist’s remarkable ministry, which became a hit general release movie in his homeland, released on DVD today. Faith Like Potatoes tells the story of farmer Angus Buchan–described by South African media as “a folksy version of Billy Graham”–who overcame major losses to see a physical and spiritual harvest,

The Cross–a movie about the life and ministry of globe-trekking evangelist Arthur Blessitt–placed at No. 17 after debuting on 221 screens on the weekend, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Made by Gener8Xion Entertainment, affiliated with Trinity Broadcasting Network and the company responsible for The Omega Code and One Night With the King, the film took in $327,000.

A former member of the Christian band Third Day is helping people find restful sleep through a CD project that mixes music therapy with Scripture. Billy Wilkins, 43, said he developed the Wesley Sleep Program to help people end their day at peace by focusing on Jesus. But he also thought it could serve as

A charismatic evangelist who has carried a 12-foot wooden cross into every nation of the world is taking his gospel message into unchartered territory–movie theaters nationwide. The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story, which documents the evangelist’s 39-year journey through 315 nations, premieres tonight at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida, and at Grauman’s Chinese