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Meet ‘The Autism Pastor’ Lamar Hardwick: Preacher, author, cancer warrior
By Kathryn Post — February 8, 2024
(RNS) — Hardwick recently retired as lead pastor of Tri-Cities Church in East Point, Georgia, as he receives ongoing treatment for stage 4 cancer.
Tim Keller, retired New York megachurch pastor and bestselling author, dies at 72
By Bob Smietana — May 19, 2023
(RNS) — The success of Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church in the heart of New York City as well as his bestselling books made him one of the most influential evangelicals in the US.
Too many Christians are afraid to admit they’re wrong, argues Tim Keller in ‘Forgive’
By Bob Smietana — November 1, 2022
(RNS) — Keller said many of his fellow Christians have become afraid to say they are sorry and admit when they are wrong. Others use forgiveness to hide the truth.
Nightbirde, who shared music, message of hope on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ dies at 31
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 21, 2022
(RNS) — The singer, a Liberty University graduate who moved many viewers with her faith in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis, withdrew from 'America’s Got Talent' as her health declined.
Kate Bowler wants to take down the self-help enterprise
By Yonat Shimron — November 4, 2021
(RNS) — Her new book, ‘No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear),’ is a broadside against a culture obsessed with the power of positive thinking.
Liberty grad Nightbirde captures hearts, Golden Buzzer on ‘America’s Got Talent’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 11, 2021
(RNS) — What fans of the popular show may not realize is that Nightbirde's performance came from a place of deep faith.
Meet Mercy Haub: The 16-year-old cancer survivor and preacher’s kid who inspired Ellen
By Bob Smietana — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — After a friend’s dad died of cancer, a Seattle teen made raising money to fight cancer one of her life’s goals. Then she faced her own illness.
Mercy Haub: I know what cancer means
By Mercy Haub — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — Mercy Haub, a preacher’s daughter and cancer survivor, recently shared her story on national television.
The new science of spiritual fortitude: The key to enduring faith
By Jamie Aten — December 9, 2019
(RNS) — Resilience has been touted as the key to a successful life. But the concept didn’t resonate with my personal experience of suffering from cancer.
Finding a faith that is stronger than death — or my family’s rejection
By Heidi Hall — September 26, 2019
(RNS) — I want an afterlife like my life has been: one like Revelation 7:9, a great multitude of diverse people existing together in love of each other and their Creator. It’s not up to me to say who qualifies.
Anne Graham Lotz, a year after breast cancer diagnosis, says joy ‘never left me’
By Adelle M. Banks — September 24, 2019
(RNS) — ‘I feel like one reason God allowed me to have this is to show … that cancer is not punishment,’ Lotz said in an interview.
DeMoss takes his leave but says ‘I’m rooting for them all’
By Adelle M. Banks — January 17, 2019
(RNS) — Mark DeMoss talked about surviving cancer, his concerns about incivility and why he’ll never write a tell-all book.
Christian author Lysa TerKeurst faces her greatest fears
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 8, 2018
(RNS) — When, in the past two years, bestselling Christian author Lysa TerKeurst revealed her husband's affair and her diagnosis with breast cancer, she did what she's always done. She wrote about it in a new book, 'It's Not Supposed to Be this Way."
Jimmy Carter, 93, talks about his new book: ‘Faith’
By Adelle M. Banks — April 13, 2018
(RNS) — The former president also told RNS about his plans to speak at Liberty University and cutting back on his Sunday school teaching.
What living with a death sentence can teach all of us about life
By Jonathan Merritt — February 6, 2018
(RNS) — 'If someone found cancer to be a gift, wonderful. But there is a certain cruelty to asking suffering people to bear the weight of other people’s theological conundrums,' Christian historian Kate Bowler tells RNS' Jonathan Merritt. (Commentary)
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