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The fever surrounding Mariano Rivera's retirement continues to rise as the New York Yankees closer takes a long last lap around the field of America's favorite past time. However, as Lisa Miller reports in this week's New York magazine, Mariano Rivera will be continuing to save as he dedicates himself to his Christian faith by establishing a…
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In my experience, religion has had both a positive and negative effect in women's lives. As a Christian woman, my faith is a source of strength and encouragement. It is a source of my understanding of who I am: a child of God, created in the image of God. However, I am familiar with the…
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (BP) — Christians in Sri Lanka, off the southern coast of India, are facing an increase in persecution at the hands of Buddhist fundamentalists who believe the country is a historic Buddhist land that should not be shared with anyone else, a watch group reported. Christianity is viewed in Sri Lanka as…
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Donations for the Martin Family Bereavement Fund. This is Jared Vallorani, CIO of Liberty Alliance and Tolle Lege Press and member of The Journey Church in Hiram, GA. I'm writing today to talk to you about my pastor and and his family, who lost their youngest member, Knox, in a recent tragic accident. Justyn Knox…
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In Peter’s first epistle he wrote, “Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake” (1 Pet. 2:13). If one were to borrow words from modern vernacular, one might simply say, “Obey the laws of the land.” However, in a society that seems to be pushing further and further away from God, is it possible…
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Christians celebrated 60 years since the coronation of the Queen with special services and prayers today. Belfast Cathedral was among those holding special services. Dean John Mann said: "This magnificent and symbolic event in 1953 is one that remains in the minds of many people – sometimes for the simple reason that they bought their…
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The head of the Episcopal Church has garnered outrage from some in the Anglican Communion over her claim that St. Paul of Tarsus' curing of a demon-possessed slave girl as described in the Bible was wrong. In a sermon delivered before the Diocese of Venezuela on the island nation of Curaçao, Presiding Bishop The Most…
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Shortly after Pope Francis gave a groundbreaking homily in which he said even atheists who do good are redeemed, a statement from a Vatican spokesman seemed to walk back the pope's words. Just one day after the pope's now famous remarks in Rome on May 22, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Thomas Rosica released comments stating that people who reject the teachings…
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Millions of Americans fail to realize that what happens in Great Britain generally happens here in America a few years later. The hippie and free love movement back in the 1960s started in Great Britain and quickly spread to our shores, especially the western shores of California. Around the same time, the Beatles surfaced and…
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