Stanley Gordon walks in front of what is left of his insurance agency in Vilonia, Ark., Thursday, May 1, 2014. Obama announced that he will be visiting the areas affected.
(Photo: Danny Johnston AP)
President Obama will travel to Arkansas Wednesday to visit communities devastated by the recent deadly tornadoes, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor announced Saturday. Continue reading
Mark Jackson (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Sports)
Long before Doc Rivers found himself defending his Los Angeles Clippers players who were the unwelcome participants in team owner Donald Sterling’s racist comments all week, he was concerned about another sensitive subject.
Religion. Continue reading
An investigation is underway after Harris County deputies say a pastor was found dead in the garage of a North Houston apartment complex on Ella Boulevard.
Todd Burpo has dismissed Christian critics of Heaven is for Real, the film about his son’s near death experience.
Pastor Bill Hybels
Church planting has become the “coolest” trend in church work in recent decades, according to Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, who says that alone should not be a reason to plant a church.
Using an alias, Joseph Lewis Miller had received Social Security disability benefits for more than two decades, officials said.
At long last, Joseph Lewis Miller’s double life, carefully constructed over decades here, was beginning to unravel. Just not in the manner one might expect. Continue reading
‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ (Courtesy of Karen L. King)
In September 2012, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King announced the discovery of a Coptic (ancient Egyptian) gospel text on a papyrus fragment that contained the phrase “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife . . .’ ” The world took notice. The possibility that Jesus was married would prompt a radical reconsideration of the New Testament and biblical scholarship.
