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“He was a true Servant of God,” she added. Mutemwa is located in Mutoko, some 90 miles (145 kilometers) northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, where Bradburne, a lay member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who was killed on Sept. 5, 1979. He had spent the last 10 years of his life caring for […]
Last year’s event resulted in $166,000 (129,373 pounds) raised by participants who created their own routes around groups of churches. At the time, Charles Inglis, Norfolk Bike Ride Committee Chairman said: “Since that first bike ride, the bikes, the clothes, the world has changed enormously but one thing hasn’t change, we still have our magnificent […]
(OPINION) In 1995, I published a book called “Modern-Day Miracles: How Ordinary People Experience Supernatural Acts of God.” It’s been out of print for years, so don’t worry about buying a copy. I am now, as I was then, a Pentecostal pastor in addition to being a journalist. As a Pentecostal, I already had a […]
The impact came out of nowhere — but Southern Baptist Chaplain Charles LeClair will never forget it. Suddenly, another truck barreled toward them, slamming into their jeep and sending LeClair hurtling to the ground. It was September 1969. LeClair and his assistant were traveling a dirt road in South Vietnam between Long Binh Army Base […]
The decline in generic Protestant voting for Trump is interesting, especially since it appears that the president-elect’s totals among white evangelical voters remained the same. Maybe a weakening in Trump support among mainliners? Yes, I would also like to see what happened among Black Protestants, on the doctrinal right and left. In conclusion, here are […]
A long-standing history of studying the skies Similar to other religious tradition, interest in the heavens grew out of a need to set the calendar and establish dates for religious holidays. The day Easter should fall on, for example, led to the creation of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. Used to […]
BELLVUE, Colo. — A blind farmer. A motorcycle-riding nurse. The story of the late Bob and Helen Bland is as ordinary as it is extraordinary, right down to their last name. Yet on a blue-sky Sunday afternoon, a crowd of friends, family and fellow Christians gathered amid 100-foot cottonwood trees with a slight whiff of […]
This is largely due to the highly publicized rise of the “nones” – those who don’t identify with any religion in particular. About half of those who identify as “nones” say they engage in New Age spirituality practices. And most of those practitioners believe spirits, or spiritual energies, reside in animals, cemeteries, aspects of nature […]
(ANALYSIS) Forget the opinions of newspaper czars. The question many voters needed to know in this feverish White House race was simple: Who did Hell endorse? Writing in the style of “The Screwtape Letters” by Christian apologist C.S. Lewis (in which a veteran tempter lectures lesser demons), Dominick Baruffi didn’t answer that question. But his […]
Florida abortion measure fails One of the biggest issues of this campaign season (other than the economy and illegal immigration) was abortion. In fact, 11 abortion-related measures – a record high in a single election year – were on the ballot. Ten would provide for state constitutional rights to abortion: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, […]