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While countless Americans across the nation are trick-or-treating on Oct. 31, thousands of Christians will be on their knees interceding for the country. Some 2,000 intercessors are expected to participate in Reformation Day, a prayer event sponsored by Generals International. Ministry co-founder Cindy Jacobs said the meeting, to be held at Christ for the Nations […]

Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls stopped by a Florida prison this week to tell inmates about the one survival tool he can’t live without: his faith. During a visit Thursday to the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, the British adventurer, who has eaten animal eyeballs and camel intestines and confronted some of the

A recent Barna Group found that many young adults are skeptical about the Bible. In a study exploring how attitudes toward the Bible are changing from generation to generation, the California-based research organization found that only 67 percent of adults ages 18 to 25 viewed the Bible as a sacred text. More than 80 percent

The new wife of former Lakeland Revival leader Todd Bentley said she believes it was wrong to begin a relationship with the evangelist before his divorce was final. In an interview with MorningStar Ministries founder Rick Joyner, who is overseeing Bentley’s restoration process, Jessa Bentley said her relationship with Todd Bentley began after he filed

Chynna Phillips’ mother and father were members of the 1960s successful singing group The Mamas and the Papas, and she herself achieved fame as a member of the pop sensation Wilson Phillips. She went on to become a household name in the 1990s with such hits as “Hold On” and “You’re in Love.” But today

Fashion photographer Michael Belk has done shoots for Calvin Klein, Nautica and J.Crew, with his images appearing in Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair. But the longtime Christian says his best work by far is a new collection of photos that feature Jesus at the center. Belk’s Journey With the Messiah collection, which officially launches on

What’s in a phrase? When the phrase is house church, a lot-or at least enough to prompt one-third of all adults to say they’re a part of one. According to research from George Barna, 33 percent of people responding to a dozen national surveys indicated they have experienced God or shared their faith in the

It’s 11:30 p.m. and a Hope for Homeless Youth (HHY) ministry team gathers on Hollywood’s teeming Walk of Fame for its regular Friday outreach. They’ll pass out food and ministry information, witness to hundreds, and invite each young person to return and enter their one-year discipleship program. As usual, Director Clayton Golliher will sleep in

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