If you’ve ever wandered into an Abercrombie & Fitch store, you know about coolness. The retailer markets its line of sweaters, hoodies and overpriced T-shirts using dim lighting, funky music and wall-sized photos of buff models wearing $98 jeans. But the store began losing customers this year when it became known that CEO Mike Jeffries only wanted thin, popular teens to wear his clothes.
Lee Grady believes the time for preaching styles like TBN’s Paul Crouch has passed. Among the legendary pioneers of Christian broadcasting—a list that includes Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts and Jim Bakker—no one worked harder to establish Christian TV stations around the world than Paul Crouch Sr. In spite of constant controversies over his network’s content and finances, the Trinity Broadcasting Network that Crouch founded in 1973 has grown to be the largest and most profitable religious television enterprise in the world.
As news editor for Charisma magazine, I read hundreds of stories every week about the good, bad and ugly. Unfortunately, most of it is bad and ugly.
One day remains until families throughout the U.S. express their thanks on “Turkey Day,” more properly known as Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for this year? David Shibley with Global Advance recently gave Mission Network News a glimpse of his gratitude for pastoral leaders.
Right after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines this month, a friend sent me an amazing photo. It’s a shapshot of a Pentecostal church service held a few days after the monster storm displaced 3 million people and killed more than 5,000. Notice that the worshippers are standing in about 16 inches of water. A flooded church did not keep these people from thanking God that they were spared.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This week, those of us who are old enough to remember that dreadful Nov. 22 in Dallas a half-century ago, find ourselves awash in nostalgia for a more innocent time in our own and the Nation’s life.
