I’m stunned. I’ve never had a flight attendant congratulate me before. In mid-flight somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, I made it. “Diamond Medallion” status. Not in a lifetime. Not in a decade. Nope. Not me. I did it in less than a year.

A regional appeals committee of the United Methodist Church has reinstated the clergy credentials of a former pastor who was recently defrocked for performing a same-sex union ceremony. Frank Schaefer refused to henceforward respect the church’s policies forbidding such ceremonies. Schaefer’s Eastern Pennsylvania congregation experienced rapid decline and tumultuous division before his removal from the pulpit late last year.

Almost every day conservative Christians are told that if we don’t become more enlightened and progressive, we will become irrelevant to society as our numbers continue to decline.

Joshua C. Peavy, a 28 year-old youth and music pastor at the Blackville Church of God, appeared Sunday, June 22on the debut episode of Rising Star on ABC television. In addition, Peavey was the first contestant to appear and received more than enough online positive votes to advance in the competition.

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a bipartisan majority The WWII Memorial Prayer Act (S1044). The Ohio Christian Alliance would like to commend the bill’s sponsors, Senator Rob Portman (OH) and Senator Mary Landrieu (LA), and Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio’s 6th District, who was the House sponsor for their support of this historic legislation that will add FDR’s D-Day Landing prayer to the WWII memorial in Washington D.C.

Clint Eastwood’s son and rising Hollywood star Scott Eastwood (“Gran Torino,” “Flags of Our Fathers”), Rachel Hendrix (“October Baby”) and Cheryl Ladd (“Charlie’s Angels”), star in the Christian film, “The Perfect Wave,” which is set to open in select theatres on July 11. “The Perfect Wave” follows the true story of Ian McCormack, who grew up surfing the waters of New Zealand.

Hardly a day passes that I don’t hear someone say, “We are losing our country; we are losing our churches.”

Reggie Joiner, CEO of Orange, joins the list of speakers to present at the LEAD Conference July 28, the day before the 75th Church of God International General Assembly in Orlando.

Stacey Irvine ate almost nothing but chicken nuggets for 15 years. She never tasted fruits or vegetables. She occasionally supplemented her diet with French fries. One day her tongue started to swell and she couldn’t catch her breath. She was rushed to the hospital, her airway was forced open, and they stuck an IV in her arm to start pumping in the nutrients she needed. After saving her life, the medical staff sent her home, but not before they warned her that she needed to change her diet or prepare herself for an early death.