While many churches are turning to the internet and mobile apps as evangelistic tools, media executive Phil Cooke advises pastors of the continued value of traditional broadcast television. Although a strong proponent of adapting to the digital age, Cooke dedicates an...
If Jesus were preaching today, his parables might well focus on topics like hardware stores, hazmat suits, and frogs as an indicator species. That’s the thinking reflected in “Your Photo on God’s Fridge Door,” a new book by Gordon S. Jackson, a...
The following is submitted by Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: New Year 2024 begins with the observance of the Annual Martin Luther King Holiday LET FREEDOM RING, followed quickly by the Annual March for Life. I believe if my uncle were here, he...
You’ve probably seen the videos of thieves filling trash bags with stolen merchandise from CVS or walking out of Home Depot or Wal-Mart with armloads of tools, laptops, detergent and athletic shoes they didn’t pay for. By J. Lee Grady We used to call this shoplifting,...
There’s a scene halfway through the new film “Jesus Revolution” in which Greg Laurie, a fatherless teenager who’s been searching for life’s meaning through drugs and Janis Joplin concerts, is baptized in the Pacific Ocean by a hippie preacher named Lonnie Frisbee....
