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Social media offers more ways that ever before to communicate faith. The creative team at OneVerse.org has launched an exciting new platform that allows everyday people the opportunity to help provide Bible translations to some of the 340 million people who have yet to hear the Bible in their native language. How does it work?…

This week, Southwest Airlines publicly apologized for treatment of a Muslim passenger thought to be of concern. While some, especially in the Muslim community, have condemned the airline’s action, I for one say, “Thank you, Southwest Airlines!” Why? Not because of the mistake. Harassing passengers is nothing to be proud of. What I am thankful…

While many of this past week’s headlines have (rightly) focused on Japan as it deals with the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant issues, others have been at work in our nation’s capital dealing with what are being called hearings on radical Islam in America. But is this really a good idea? Isn’t…

This week, Southwest Airlines publicly apologized for treatment of a Muslim passenger thought to be of concern. While some, especially in the Muslim community, have condemned the airline’s action, I for one say, “Thank you, Southwest Airlines!” Why? Not because of the mistake. Harassing passengers is nothing to be proud of. What I am thankful…

From Activist Faith co-founder Daniel Darling. Apply accordingly in your situation. +++ Yesterday I attended a ministerium (meeting of pastors) for the church fellowship of which Gages Lake is a member. (IFCA International). We meet every other month. I enjoy these times, opportunities to meet other pastors in the region and glean wisdom from those…

ActivistFaith.org co-founder Dan King is currently leading a group blogging project through a new book by John Sowers to help us better understand how to help address the issue of fatherlessness. If you’ve ever wanted to blog along on a book, here’s your chance. But even if not, this is great way to learn more…

Yesterday, I posted information about the delay of donate-to-text gifts reaching those impacted in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. I featured a petition from my friends at Change.org to encourage mobile phone providers to speed up gifts to Japan. At the time of the post, about 2,500 people had signed the petition. As of this morning,…

During my January 2010 trip to Haiti, one of my biggest frustrations regarding relief efforts was how long the process took for the public’s donations to reach the impacted area. Text-to-give, a donation tool popularized following the Haiti earthquake, accumulated millions in donations, but typically took six weeks or more to reach those in need.…

Photo credit: Samaritan’s Purse.The Red Cross and other traditional disaster relief agencies are now working to support people in the impacted areas of the Japan earthquake. However, some have been asking me about specific Christian organizations they can support that are serving on the ground. As of now, two great initiatives taking place are from…

The following report comes from my friends at Open Doors International. Much is happening in Egypt, far more than the headlines can share. Here is what one group is doing to help live out faith in this area. Thanks, Dillon +++ When a bomb ripped through a church in Alexandria this past New Year’s Day,…
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