After C.S. Lewis College flops, a free campus for the taking

22 February 2012

Jerry Pattengale’s cell phone won’t stop ringing as he leads a secretive group of four wide-eyed college administrators around a majestic campus built in 1879 by legendary evangelist D.L. Moody. Calls and visitors are pouring in for one reason: the billionaire Oklahoma family that owns the 217-acre site and its 43 buildings aims to give [...]

Belarus: Why is a state financial investigation committee investigating a priest?

21 February 2012

Belarus’ Novopolotsk Financial Investigation Committee is examining the activities of Fr. Vyacheslav Barok, a priest with the Catholic Parish of St. Josaphat Kuncewicz in Rassony in the northern Vitebsk Region. Committee officials have told him that he is suspected of evading tax on alleged earnings of about 1,000,000 Euros (10,930,000,000 Belarusian Rubles, 7,497,000 Norwegian Kroner, [...]

2 churches targeted in bomb attack in Nigeria

21 February 2012

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building in Nigeria Sunday. This took place two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla.   Sunday’s blast in Suleja, in front of Christ Embassy church during their morning worship, injured five people, one seriously, [...]

Keeping the Faith: The Gospel According to Jesus

17 February 2012

While traveling in Central America, I had the opportunity to worship at an international, interdenominational, English-speaking church. The congregation contained Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Latinos, Americans, and Asians. We sang old Irish hymns and modern, Australian worship choruses. The service was a mixture of Lutheran, Reformed, and Pentecostal elements. The welcome was given by a Canadian, [...]

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Apologetics

Question of the week: The pitfalls of celebrity

Posted on 17 February 2012

Question: “Why are there so many tragedies among celebrities?” Answer: Suicides, drug overdoses (whether illicit or prescription), divorces, alcoholism, financial disasters – why are tragedies like these seemingly common among celebrities? Why do many celebrities, some of whom are relatively intelligent and good people, make such complete disasters of their lives? There is no single answer [...]

Arts & Culture

UK-based band to release single to honor those who died protesting Pakistan’s blasphemy laws

Posted on 22 February 2012

Ooberfuse, an experimental music project based in the United Kingdom has written and will release a song, Blood Cries Out, to honor the memory of those who lose their lives in defense of the marginalized and oppressed. They are slated to perform the song at a protest march and concert in London on March 10 [...]

Christian Living

Keeping the Faith: The Gospel According to Jesus

Posted on 17 February 2012

While traveling in Central America, I had the opportunity to worship at an international, interdenominational, English-speaking church. The congregation contained Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Latinos, Americans, and Asians. We sang old Irish hymns and modern, Australian worship choruses. The service was a mixture of Lutheran, Reformed, and Pentecostal elements. The welcome was given by a Canadian, [...]

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