Denzel Washington recently told a group of young actors that a good way to make sure you pray every morning is to put your shoes “way under the bed at night” so you “gotta get on your knees in the morning.”
A coalition of liberal religious groups has authored a letter to U.S. lawmakers expressing concerns about a renewed initiative to add a prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in the nation’s capital.
The Reverends Rob Schenck and Patrick J. Mahoney of the National Clergy Council in Washington, DC, traveled on Wednesday, June 4, to the site of a mass shooting in California, to call fellow evangelicals ministers to engage in solutions to gun violence perpetrated by the mentally ill.
A billboard featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler next to pictures of five smiling children was taken down on Tuesday in the city of Auburn, Alabama, at the request of the church group that bought it after the sign drew criticism.
Hollywood’s “year of the Bible movie” continues to drive sales at the box office in 2014.
The church was dying and didn’t know it. Attendance was down, the building was mostly empty, and the glory days had long since passed. As a last resort, a church member asked LifeWay Christian Resources president and CEO Thom S. Rainer for some advice. Rainer spent a few weeks studying the church, then recommended a number of changes.
