Yesterday a friend from Atlanta emailed me and asked if I had seen CNN? A friend/boss of both of ours was in the news -- not for a good reason. After reading the story and then seeing the footage on CNN I'm heartbroken. This man was/is a friend, mentor and example to me. I hurt for him, his family and his church. I watched the story with tears in my eyes. In fact I still have them. I don't know what else ... Read More
[WLBZ2] A Florida woman says she asked for a sign from God and she got it, in her shower. Laquan Joyner and her husband Theo Grimes say they have been praying and asking God to send them a sign. When they looked in the shower, right next to the shampoo, there it was, an image of Jesus. The family says they will never clean the spot and they now treat the shower like a shrine. Read about it here. [From me] "They will never clean that ... Read More
[Yahoo] When Sen. John McCain was forced to distance himself from Pastor John Hagee earlier this year, he denounced the pastor's attacks on Catholicism. But asked why he wouldn't "repudiate" Hagee's endorsement of him, McCain found something to praise. I'm grateful for his commitment to the support of the state of Israel, and I'm very grateful for many of his commitments around the world, including to the independence and freedom of the state of Israel," he told CNN's Campbell Brown on April 29. Hagee's commitment to Israel, however, is itself controversial: It's ... Read More
[Yahoo] For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or something," Berger says. It's time that attitude changed, he says. "That was probably never correct, but it's totally false now and I think the image should be corrected," Berger said in a recent interview. Now, his university's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs is leading a two-year project that explores ... Read More
[Christian Post] Jay Bakker, a big supporter of a pro-gay group, met privately with Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church to talk about faith and sexuality issues and to ultimately gain the support of the megapastor.Son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jay and a group of gays and lesbians attended one of Lakewood Church's Sunday worship services in an effort to change the influential pastor's view on gays and lesbians. At the end, Osteen did not affirm homosexuality. It was the first of six ... Read More
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