Slowly making its way into the public eye is the wave of proactive involvement among Pentecostal/charismatic Christians in the American political system. As John Stemberger, an Orlando attorney and the president of the Florida Family Policy Council, sees it, the movement started in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the Religious Right.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday afternoon delayed its final decision on who would take control of the Crystal Cathedral campus. The delay came after Chapman University upped the ante with a new bid on the property.

Man in the Mirror, the pioneering ministry to men Dr. Patrick Mahoney started 25 years ago, is beating the expansion drum.

Darlia McLuhan Conn was named Distinguished Alumna of the Year at recent ceremonies during Homecoming at Lee University.

“I tell the folks everywhere I go that I am a cotton chopper and preacher,” Samuel W. Latimer wrote to readers of the Church of God Evangel in 1914. Brother Latimer had recently come into the Church of God and was serving as pastor in Spring Place, Georgia. His letter continued, “I’m asking God to help me more and more to get out and work for Him.”

Operation Compassion, a bemnevolent organization with ties to the Church of God, recently participated with the 8th Judicial Drug Task Force in a national K-9 training exercise involving semi-trucks. Twenty-six drug enforcement dog/handler teams from Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Tennessee took part in the multi-day training event held in Cleveland, Tennessee.

“The whole stadium is filled with the spirit of God—you can feel God in this place.” As the Rev. Mohan Babu welcomed the crowd to the first night of the Hyderabad Festival with Franklin Graham, the pastor’s words proved to be prophetic. The Holy Spirit stirred the hearts of 1,240 who responded to the Gospel message at the end of the evening.

Just weeks after Paul Crouch, Jr. left the television network his parents pioneered 38 years ago, the mystery surrounding the “new opportunities” that enticed him is solved.

Like many other intercessors, Cindy Jacobs, co-founder of Generals International, was at TheCall Detroit this weekend. As the solemn assembly gathered, Jacobs released a prophetic word for the United States and Israel. The following is what the Holy Spirit spoke to Jacobs on 11-11-11: