The Religious Roots of April Fool’s Day
Category: Lifestyle & Culture
Let’s be clear: April Fools’ Day is not a religious holiday. It does, however, trace its origins to a pope.
Category: Lifestyle & Culture
Let’s be clear: April Fools’ Day is not a religious holiday. It does, however, trace its origins to a pope.
Category: Church of God News
Last November, Church of God General Overseer Mark Williams announced the theme for the 2014 International General Assembly, which will be held next summer, July 29 – August 1, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. He recently recorded a video expounding the background of the nontraditional single word theme, “ONE.”
Category: Lifestyle & Culture
Georgia Right Life (GRTL) President Dan Becker expressed “heartfelt sadness” that GRTL’s affiliation with its national counterpart has ended.
Category: Opinion & Commentary
Recently, I was a panelist on MSNBC. The topic was same-sex marriage. A fellow panelist called for a Marriage Spring. We know what that means. Or we think we do. The unmarriage advocate wants us to hurry up and overthrow the existing order.
Category: Events and Happenings, Opinion & Commentary
Could the world experience a second Pentecost? That’s the hope of a global movement called Empowered 21, with organizers setting their sights on Jerusalem, where the first Pentecost took place.
Recently, Christian leaders came from around the world to Jerusalem to worship, pray and plan for what they call E21.
Category: Church of God News
March 29, 2014–Washington, D.C.–An administrator from Lee University took part in a Senate hearing in Washington on Thursday to discuss growing student-loan debt, making the federal student-loan programs easier for borrowers to navigate, and increasing college access for lower-income students.
Category: Global News and Ministry
Pope Francis and Vatican officials on Thursday told U.S. President Barack Obama they were concerned about “religious freedom” in the United States, an apparent reference to the contraception mandate in Obama’s health care plan.
Category: Lifestyle & Culture
For Duncan Phillips, God’s Not Dead is bigger than he initially imagined.
Category: Latest Trends
A growing number of Americans are taking “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” literally when they die.