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| | The New Jersey-based multisite megachurch Liquid Church recently partnered with nonprofit Rise Against Hunger to organize approximately 3,000 volunteers who worked at six of the church's campuses in New Jersey on Friday and Saturday to pack approximately 800,000 meals for those in need in Haiti. "We can all do our part, we can all come together and pack these meals for a good cause," Liquid Outreach Director Kristin Flynn told The Christian Post. The meals are expected to ship out around Wednesday and will be distributed by partner organizations. |
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| | With the Christmas season underway, many are looking for Christmas movies to watch with their families. Click the image to see our list of seven films that highlight the meaning of the season. Among the bunch: "Show Me the Father" and "Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers," which is now in theaters. |
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| | Hollywood's leading movie soundtrack vocalist, Steve Amerson, says his passion for singing goes back long before he fully understood that his musical gift came from God. Amerson, whose songs have been featured in 175 films, including "Star Wars," "The Patriot," and Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," says it's important for Christians in all industries to fulfill a "mandatory duty" of being a witness and ministering to others, especially through prayer. |
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| | A United Methodist Church pastor was recently relieved of his duties after participating as a drag queen in the HBO reality series “We’re Here.” Rev. Craig Duke featured in a Nov. 8 episode of the docu-series where he was shown preaching to his congregation about love before transitioning into singing Kesha’s song “We Are Who We Are” with “drag mother” Eureka O’Hara. Mitch Gieselman, superintendent of the South and Southwest Districts of the Indiana UMC Conference, sent a letter to the congregation on Nov. 26 stating that Duke was neither fired nor suspended but “has reached a place where he feels unable to continue to serve in parish ministry at present.” |
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| | Religious freedom advocates and political figures are speaking out following the Biden administration announcing a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics on Monday. Officials with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom praised the boycott, while former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called the boycott a “joke," explaining, "A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics is window dressing. A total boycott of the Olympics is leadership.” The U.S. government labeled China’s treatment of the Uighurs as a “genocide” during the final days of the Trump administration, a designation that has been upheld by the Biden administration. |
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| | A coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations is expressing concern about the impact President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill may have on faith-based child care and education services. In a letter sent to leaders in both houses of the U.S. Congress Wednesday, the coalition wrote that "the current child care and universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) provisions in the Build Back Better Act will suppress, if not exclude, the participation of many faith-based providers; and faith-based providers are what more than half of American families choose for child care.” |
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| | Many people scatter and run when the topic of race and privilege enters the conversation. But for Dominque Gilliard, the director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church, it’s the complete opposite. Gilliard believes now is the right moment to discuss issues surrounding race and privilege, and not from secular society's point of view, but through a biblical lens. Click the image to watch the full interview. |
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