Ooberfuse, an experimental music project based in the United Kingdom has written and will release a song, Blood Cries Out, to honor the memory of those who lose their lives in defense of the marginalized and oppressed. They are slated to perform the song at a protest march and concert in London on March 10 [...]

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With TV trucks and camera crews clogging the streets and thousands of fans hoping for a glimpse of the event, Whitney Houston’s family has decided that no one but invited guests will get near her funeral on Saturday (Feb. 18). That means no procession, no video screens outside the New Hope Baptist Church for the [...]

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Jesus. America. Apple pie. Guns. Whoever the Republican candidate is at the moment. Based on the prevailing stereotype of the prototypical American Christian, it seems as if you don’t love all of the above, you haven’t any hope of getting into heaven. But shouldn’t American Christians be above that? Isn’t the call of Christ and [...]

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Everybody has a favorite Whitney Houston song, a memory that makes them stand still and think about how this soulful pop superstar made them feel when they heard her sing. Remember the chill when she sang the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, or how “I’m Every Woman” empowered women, providing confidence and inspiration? [...]

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People all over the globe are coming down with a new illness: Linsanity. Symptoms of Linsanity include buying Knicks season tickets just to see Jeremy Lin even though you hate basketball, buying no. 17 Knicks jerseys for all your friends and sending out chain e-mails with links to Lin’s college highlights reel. Though it’s not [...]

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Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has become an outsized evangelical superstar: best-selling author of “The Purpose Driven Life” series, pastoral mentor and even political referee. Now Warren is finding a new purpose: tackling his outsized waistline. Warren, 58, says the revelation came about a year ago, during a marathon baptism session of about 800 people at [...]

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Britain’s powerful media advertising watchdog has banned a Christian group from claiming on its website and brochures that God’s cure-all powers can heal a string of medical ailments. The Advertising Standards Authority, the independent regulator of advertising in all British media, ruled that the ads generated by the group Healing on the Streets are irresponsible [...]

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God may hold the whole world in his hand, but persecuted Christians can now hold an entire seminary library on a fingertip. Bible League International is working with the Digital Bible Society to carry the thumbnail-sized chips to Christians in countries, such as China or Saudi Arabia, where possessing unapproved religious materials can result in [...]

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I have a confession to make. The only real reason I saw Spike Lee’s new film at the Sundance Film Festival here is because it is set in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where my oldest daughter started her career in an elementary school with Teach for America. Even though I think and write [...]

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As new students wandered onto the campus of Concordia Seminary last September, they were joined by another group of theological rookies — mostly midcareer types — joining the school’s program that allows students to train for the ministry online. As the consultants, electricians, farmers and entrepreneurs in the Specific Ministry Pastor Program met up before [...]

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