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With ‘The Other Side of Heaven 2’, Christian filmmaker swims with summer blockbusters
“The Other Side of Heaven” is getting a sequel after 18 years, and filmmaker Mitch Davis is counting on Americans of faith to help the film compete against the blockbusters.
New LDS domain name may spark brand war over ‘Church of Jesus Christ’
SALT LAKE CITY — Along with dropping the ‘Mormon’ nickname, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has changed its website from ldschurch.org to churchofjesuschrist.org.
NIH Director Francis Collins on why Christians must reconcile with science
(RNS) — The head of the National Institutes of Health has star power among a segment of evangelicals who are eager for a nuanced approach to science — one that accepts evolution and also regards the Bible as the ultimate source of authority.
BioLogos presents Beyond Conflict: Science, Faith, and the Big Questions
BALTIMORE — BioLogos will present Beyond Conflict: Science, Faith, and the Big Questions at the Hyatt Regency, 300 Light St. Baltimore, MD, 21202 on March 27-29, 2019. The conference will feature BioLogos founder Francis Collins, astronomer Jennifer Wiseman, church historian Justo González, Oxford science-religion scholar Bethany Sollereder, BioLogos President Deb Haarsma, and more! Worship throughout […]
I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
Super Bowl LII: God will be watching
(RNS) — When a quarterback throws a long pass and a player down the field makes a spectacular catch, RNS columnist Richard Mouw imagines the Lord saying to himself: ‘Nicely done!’
A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label
(RNS) — ‘Given the baggage it’s taken on, the term is probably not salvageable. The effort to redeem it is probably not worth the cost in time and energy,’ writes Tom Krattenmaker.
After Sutherland Springs, pray … and do something
(RNS) — I have no objections to a president’s urging us to pray. But just praying is not enough.
Two tearful faces that make me pray for peace with North Korea
(RNS) — I despise Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader. But I offer up my prayers for peace regularly — prayers that are associated with the tears on two faces I saw while visiting a church in a village 10 hours north of Pyongyang.
Sermon on the Strip: ‘Where is God?’
LAS VEGAS (RNS) — At worship this weekend, people of different faiths sought solace and answers to a question that may be unanswerable: why the mass shooting happened.
In Las Vegas as before, spontaneous shrines bring healing after horror
LAS VEGAS (RNS) — The piles of flowers, teddy bears and candles recall sacred spaces created after terror attacks in New York, Madrid, London and elsewhere, and date back to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
You have been warned, Pat Robertson!
(RNS) It didn’t take long for some preachers tell us why God caused the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas to happen. The best response to such bad theology came from a bus driver I met several years ago in New Orleans, writes RNS columnist Richard Mouw.
Do evangelicals lack ‘intellectual heft’ for the Supreme Court?
(RNS) While evangelical scholars continue to address the important issues of the mind, we also need to be working more generally on the spirit we bring to public engagement.
The gifts of science are worth celebrating
(RNS) Large numbers of us, including many fine scientists, accept the gifts of scientific investigation with deep gratitude.
Evangelicals can no longer speak as one voice
(RNS) The fact that so many mainstream evangelical leaders opposed Trump’s order, while 76 percent of their followers supported it, is further evidence of the way politics — particularly the Trump candidacy — divided American evangelicalism.