NASHVILLE (BP) – By the time churches have fully embraced Facebook, many of their members and those they are trying to reach may have left it behind. Nearly three-quarters of Facebook users (74 percent) have adjusted their connection with the social media platform in some way over the past year, according to Pew Research. That reportedly includes the 54 percent who adjusted their privacy settings, 42 percent who took a break from checking it for several weeks or more, and 26 percent who … [Read more...]
Lessons from my little ones: Hawley’s new book offers mother’s view of how God calls us to be His children
JEFFERSON CITY – Erin Hawley’s faith and dependence on God has grown the most – not in her years at Yale Law School or while working as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, not even as a supportive and loving wife to Missouri Attorney General and current Missouri Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Josh Hawley – but it’s been during her role as mother to her two young sons, Elijah and Blaise, that God brought Hawley closer to Himself. Hawley, who has worked primarily … [Read more...]
Major League’s umpire Marvin Hudson: ‘You never know who’s watching’
ST. LOUIS – Marvin Hudson’s goal is to never be the highlight of a game. But sharing his testimony at South County Baptist Church here before taking his place behind the plate at the Sept. 16 Cardinals-Dodgers game, Hudson, a Major League Baseball umpire, said he knows what it’s like to stand out for exactly the wrong reason. A former college catcher, Hudson worked his way up through the minor leagues as an umpire. Eventually, he was promoted to call games during Spring Training and in … [Read more...]
Inspiring ‘Unbroken’ tells ‘rest of the story’
I’ll get this out of the way quickly: “Unbroken: Path to Redemption,” is a better-than-average movie. It’s worth your $10 to go see it. After being thoroughly depressed by another movie with “broken” in the title (still-in-theaters “God Bless the Broken Road”), I was prepared to sit through another 90 minutes of shoddy workmanship with a thin, Christian veneer tacked on as an afterthought. Just two or three minutes into Unbroken (I refuse to write out again that unnecessarily cumbersome … [Read more...]
‘God Bless the Broken Road’ conveys clean message, falls short on artistic depth
Before we get into God Bless the Broken Road, let’s take a second and chat about C.S. Lewis. In his book, An Experiment in Criticism, Lewis wrote a Christian artist’s “first priority ought to be excellence and delight in the craft itself, first and foremost, as a painter, musician, poet, writer, and so on, else the artistic craft suffer misuse and abuse. The kingdom content and implications will then be there … naturally, latent, even if indirect, bubbling up.” Practice good art, and the … [Read more...]
Sight & Sound’s ‘Moses’ schedules three dates in theaters
BRANSON – Sight & Sound’s epic musical drama Moses is adding a Sept. 20 encore showing. Strong early demand through Fathom Events for the original two events – Sept. 13 and 15 – drove the bonus presentation. Filmed in front of a live audience, the original stage production was seen by nearly two million people at Sight & Sound’s two live venues in Lancaster, Penn. and Branson. Set adrift as a baby and now wandering in the wilderness, Moses is one unlikely hero—until God calls him … [Read more...]
‘Queen of soul’ Aretha Franklin rooted in Gospel
DETROIT (BP) – From the submissive surrender of her “Amazing Grace” to the womanly exclamations of “Respect” and other provocative hits, the late queen of soul Aretha Franklin is widely remembered for the gospel music foundations she learned at her father’s Baptist church. New Bethel Baptist Church (non-SBC), the Detroit congregation where Franklin grew up singing in the choir and performing solos, grieved her death Aug. 16 at age 76 of advanced pancreatic cancer. Franklin’s popularity in … [Read more...]
Teens’ screen time linked to ADHD, spiritual problems
NASHVILLE (BP) – Teens who report high-frequency digital media use are twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports. Christian mental health practitioners say excessive screen time can damage the soul as well. “Screens today are the modern-day Baal,” said Joshua Straub, a marriage and family strategist for LifeWay Christian Resources, “the socially acceptable thing that keeps us from a … [Read more...]
Satanists erect statue outside Ark. Capitol
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – A group from The Satanic Temple temporarily erected a goat-headed, winged statue on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds on Thursday (Aug. 16) to protest the Ten Commandments monument already placed there. "If you're going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to others, and if you don't agree with that then let's just not have any at all," said Satanic Arkansas cofounder Ivy Forrester, a rally organizer, according to AP. The 7.5-foot-tall … [Read more...]
New Mexico university ends baby body parts program
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP) – Researchers at the University of New Mexico will no longer procure, sell, or dissect aborted baby body parts, the university announced recently. The research program led for two decades by Robin Ohls, a pediatrics professor, was halted following an internal investigation. Both the New Mexico Alliance for Life and the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Panel on Infant Lives, organized to investigate allegations of fetal tissue trade exposed in a series of … [Read more...]
In increasingly cynical society, MBTS’s Duesing issues a call to ‘mere hope’
JEFFERSON CITY – Cynicism plagues modern society, according to church historian and author Jason Duesing. And his answer to this problem provides the title to his latest book, Mere Hope: Life in an Age of Cynicism (B&H Publishing, 2018). “With instant global interconnectedness alerting us to all forms of tragedy and conflict, our society appears to have defaulted either to resigned despair or distracted indifference,” writes Duesing, provost and associate professor of historical … [Read more...]
Son of Olympic athlete, subject of ‘Unbroken’ sequel to speak at Hannibal-LaGrange event
HANNIBAL – Hannibal-LaGrange University announced Luke Zamperini as the keynote speaker for the 77th Annual Booster Banquet. The banquet will be Nov. 9, at 7 pm. Luke Zamperini is the son of Louis Zamperini, one of World War II’s most well-known prisoners of war and hero of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Louis Zamperini is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which has repeatedly been in the number one position … [Read more...]
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