Pro basketball star Jeremy Lin has never been shy about his Christian faith. Now, just entering his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Lin is asking his fans for intercessory prayer and has started a prayer group for his fans.
Yesterday Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced she has directed her legal team to drop the subpoenas of city pastors who opposed a pro-gay city ordinance. The decision comes one day after an emergency delegation of seven pastors from across the country met privately with the mayor for an hour. The meeting followed a prayer vigil held by the group in front of Houston City Hall.
The Pentecostal Theological Seminary is celebrating its annual Heritage Week with events starting yesterday, October 28. The theme is “From Generation to Generation: Honoring Mothers and Fathers,” and the week’s activities include opportunities for students to interact with spiritual mothers and fathers who have had great influence on the Church of God and the Pentecostal movement.
In a controversial new book, historian Steve Weidenkopf challenges the widespread notion that the Crusades were barbaric wars of greed and religious intolerance. The Glory of the Crusades replaces such persistent modern biases with a more factual and nuanced—yet no less compelling—vision of Christendom’s 600-year struggle to reclaim the Holy Land.
Christians who oppose the Houston mayor’s attempt to censor what pastors say about her gay-rights agenda have sent hundreds of Bibles to her office at the request of a prominent conservative commentator.
Crossroad Bible Institute (CBI) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new satellite campus in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (USA). This fast-growing campus has already enrolled ninety-two students and trained over forty Instructors under the direction of long-time prison chaplain Madeline Garcia.
