As dusk settled on a community in turmoil last Friday night, crisis-trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team arrived into Newtown, Conn. Just hours earlier, an unspeakably evil act shook the foundation of this town and left anguish and pain where there was once peace and joy.
People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.
A new social media platform called ourcog.com is being tweaked and tested prior to a projected unveiling on January 3, 2013.
On Friday night, December 14, 2012, the Los Angeles Revival broke out on Bonnie Brae Street with ecstatic utterances, slaying in the Spirit, violent quaking, the laying on of hands by Evangelist Verna Linzey who was the keynote speaker and minister, crying, tears, falling on their faces, hands lifted up toward the heavens, screaming in the Spirit, calling the fiery Holy Ghost down from Heaven — in short, a repeat of the initial outbreak of the revival in 1906, except more people were present this time.
What began as a peaceful and solemn remembrance for victims of the Connecticut shooting massacre was shattered on Sunday by a telephoned bomb threat that forced the evacuation of a Roman Catholic church, deepening the distress of a town in mourning.
As the nation mourns and asks how could something like the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting happen, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has an idea: It’s because God is absent from our schools.
