Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

The Bible and Culture

And now for something completely different. A story shared with me by my sister.————- Mama’s Bible Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far…

The heros of Marvel comics have seen something of a renaissance in the last ten years, thanks in no small part to a Hollywood looking for more fun summer fare– the season of the year when they make most of their money. It is not an accident that Marvel Comics have only come to life…

Father John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy: “Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes…

Well it was bound to happen– two of the most dogmatic blow hards one could imagine had a rather frivolous debate on the O’Reilly Factor, and U Tube has preserved it for us for posterity. Here (and above I hope) is the link—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8etMHn4P6g Frankly, its not much of a debate. Dawkins makes no points, and…

Dr. Mark Wilson is a friend of mine who works a good deal of the year in Turkey, doing tours, and also at Regent University. Here is a verbatim report from him about the recent grisly murders of Christians in eastern Turkey. In the Presence of Martyrs: A Reflection from Turkey Recently Dindy [Mark’s wife]…

ATTENTION K MART SHOPPERS. HERE IS THE REST OF THE NOVEL ‘THE LAZARUS EFFECT’. The whole novel has now been posted. For those of you who were waiting for the whole kit and kaboodle, you’ve got it now. You can cut and paste it all into one file and read away to your heart’s content.…

Pastors can wield enormous influence in the life of someone seeking spiritual answers. Such was the case of Pastor Wright a U.C.C. minister in Chicago and Barack Obama– a relationship that has been built over the last twenty years, and reveals a good deal about the interests and yearnings of Senator O’Bama, and why he…

Believe it or not, the word hero never comes up in the NT. But the word saint occurs over 60 times. And here’s the really interesting thing– it always in the plural! Saints are not formed in a vacuum or by isolate action or spiritual effort. Saints are formed in a community, the community of…

CHAPTER FORTY FIVE: STONE AT HOME Patrick Stone arose Friday, packed his bags, paid his tab, and revved his engine for a trip back to Monaco. This time, the Chateau gates opened for its new owner. He arrived in time for afternoon tea on the terrace. Anjolie brought him fresh shrimp salad in an avocado…

I was talking with one of my former seminary students who now works at a Wesley Foundation at a major university in the South. She and her charges had been busy sending support to the Va. Tech students in the wake of the massacre in Blacksburg. Everyone had been praying and wringing their hands about…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners