Creator of all things,true Source of light and wisdom,lofty origin of all being,graciously let a ray of Your brilliancepenetrate into the darkness of my understandingand take from me the double darknessin which I have been born,an obscurity of both sin...
In this video, podcast the pastor of the Calvary Church-Chino Hill (CA) reveals just how the Christian Right manipulates the past to promote its political agenda. I can’t tell whether these pastors are just ignorant or they are deliberately lying....
The case is titled Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. Here are the facts of the case for those who are just getting up to speed: Joseph Kennedy, a high school football coach, engaged in prayer with a number of students...
G. Kurt Piehler is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University. This interview is based on his new book, A Religious History of the American GI...
From St. Thomas Aquinas: Ineffable Creator,Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,have established three hierarchies of angels,have arrayed them in marvelous orderabove the fiery heavens,and have marshaled the regionsof the universe with such artful skill, You are proclaimedthe true font of light and wisdom,and the primal originraised high beyond all...
Franklin Graham is calling for a day of prayer for Afghanistan on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Here is his Facebook message to followers: DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN I’m asking for Christians around the world to join...
Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. Biden issued a proclamation: Throughout our history, Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance. Prayer has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements —...
Read this entire review series here. We have now come to the first petition in the Lord’s Prayer: “give us this day our daily bread.” Gonzalez writes, “interpreters generally agree that the bread of which Jesus speaks in this prayer has...
Read this entire review series here. What does it mean when we pray “hallowed be They name?” In his book, Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today, church historian Justo Gonzalez explains the meaning of...
On February 3, 2021, the day before the National Prayer Breakfast, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State called for Joe Biden to endorse the separation of church at the breakfast. Here is a taste of the release:...
Read this entire review series here. Many politically-minded evangelicals, most of them Trump supporters, have been doing a lot public praying lately. For example, Jim Garlow, an outspoken court evangelical during the last administration, began holding ZOOM prayer meetings for...
