Losing someone you love is difficult to go through. There is a grief and emotional process that happens when a death or some type of loss occurs. The 5 stages of grief was first coined by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The 5 stages are not meant to be worked through and checked-off, ...

Forbes called it “one the most important films of the year.” Selma, nominated for four Golden Globe awards, chronicles the harrowing details of Dr. Martin Luther King’s three-month campaign to secure equal voting rights for African Americans in 1965. Despite having made several strides toward desegregation, the film opens with ...

Ignatius of Antioch, called Saint Ignatius by Catholics and some other groups, lived in the 1st and second century, dying via slaughter by wild beasts in a Roman amphitheater.  He was subjected to death by the Roman emperor, for his crime of living a distinctive and influential Christian life.  Ignatius ...

Paris, France, recently experienced her worst nightmare…a terrorist attack motivated by Islamic State proponents of evil who were displeased with the content of some cartoons published by the staff of Charlie Hebdo, a humor magazine.  If a movie was made about this act, the advertisements might read, “Coming soon to ...

A storm that instantly subsides, a blind man healed by spit, one boy’s lunch that feeds a crowd with leftovers. All appear to be out of the ordinary, yet each circumstance has one main purpose, to show God’s crazy love for us. That same God gave True Bethel Baptist church ...

‘And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.  So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their ...

My rump has repeatedly taken a beating since lately–and it’s not from a belt. It’s from learning how to skate. I’ll be honest, I’m good at a lot of things, it’s just that skating isn’t one of them. There is something about balance maintenance that I haven’t quite figured out ...

What would it take to put an end to people living on the streets and under freeway bridges? We see them living in cardboard boxes, tents, or right out in the open. The problem of homelessness is an eyesore and blight on the world’s culture, particularly in America, the most ...

When it comes to teens, dating, and sexual integrity, several acclaimed Christian books on the subjects have dominated evangelical circles. Nevertheless, the question remains whether much of the mainstream thinking in the church on romantic relationships is following the wisdom of scripture – or is it modeling patterns of the ...

New technological developments by John Howell, a professor of physics, and Joseph Choi, a PhD graduate student at Rochester’s Institute of Optics student, have emerged out of the University of Rochester. The improvement in the ability to cloak or “hide objects from view” (University of Rochester) has now become easier ...