TV impresario Mark Burnett has brought you reality shows like Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice but many viewers of those shows might not know that he is also behind the Bible. Well, not the actual Good Book, but The Bible miniseries that aired on The History Channel last year. He and his wife, actress […]
Bizarre has just reached new heights, ladies and gentlemen! Apparently a group of people took Kanye West’s “I Am A God” song too literally and…
A South African preacher says he is helping his congregation ‘be closer to God’ by eating grass. The Pastor’s controversial methods have drawn criticism from thousands of people although members of his congregation swear by his methods – he is said to have claimed that humans can eat anything to feed their bodies and survive […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thomas Williams, the onetime public face of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order who left the priesthood after admitting he fathered a child, is getting married this weekend to the child’s mother, The Associated Press has learned. The bride is the daughter of former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See […]
Meagan Good may not always look like a card-carrying Christian (but what does that really look like?) but she is, even marrying a pastor, Devon Franklin, last year. As one of the faces of modern Christianity, Good is a celebrity representative for the NIV Live: A Bible Experience, an audio version of the The Bible. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama‘s health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly […]
Dear Lord, every time my enemy fires a curse, help me to fire a blessing. Let me respond always in grace, and thereby overcome. Amen. When Joshua DuBois first sat in the White House after America elected its first black Commander-in-Chief, he noticed that President Barack Obama was surrounded by a team of advisors. “The […]
The Reverend Lisa Jenkins has made history in East Harlem. The 48-year-old single mom has just been selected as the first black woman pastor of the historic St. Matthews Baptist Church. She won against four male contenders under vote. St. Matthews was the first black church of Harlem that was built from the ground up. […]
Look out Gospel artists! There’s a new star on the rise and he goes by the name T’Juan! Combining his soulful tones with his youthful spirit,…
Should ministers dedicate babies with unwed parents? The controversial subject surfaced when Marvin Winans allegedly shunned a single mother at his church. Many callers to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relationship to his Christian faith. But far away from the public eye, his longtime advisers say, the president has carefully nurtured a sense of spirituality that […]
The Perfecting Church, home to famed gospel singer and Pastor Marvin Winans, is having a special dedication ceremony for the congregation’s youngest members on Sunday. Charity Grace, a Detroiter who recently started attending services at the church on East Nevada Street, wanted her only son, two-year-old Joshua Grace, to share in the blessings. “I want […]
