By: Focus Features – Released November 2, 2018 Focus Features presents writer/director/producer Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased. The film is based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley and stars Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges and Joel Edgerton. Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – October 12 2018 The Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh didn’t fully break the nation, but it did prompt more Americans to wonder if that moment is approaching. It’s been a while in coming. Over the past year, I’ve heard thousands of my Nebraska constituents and dozens of my colleagues in the Senate,...

By: Samaritan Ministries – charismamag.com – May 21, 2018 “Ownership” is probably one of the last words the average American might use to describe their health care. But more than a quarter-million members of Samaritan Ministries International say they are much more in control of their health care now that they are a part of this health care sharing ministry....

By: Pete Scazzero  – emotionallyhealthy.org – August 2018 Pete Scazzero is the founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-three countries represented. After serving as senior pastor for twenty-six years, Pete now serves as a teaching pastor/pastor at large. He is the author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader and...

By: Ben Gittleson & David Wright – abcnews.go.com – August 28, 2018 Pope Francis has no intention of stepping down as he fights accusations that he protected a former archbishop accused of sexual abuse, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing “close associates” of the pope. The pontiff was “embittered” by a letter written by the Vatican’s former ambassador to the...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 As I watch the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church, an analogy one of my pastors once made comes to mind. It will likely make some of my Catholic friends uncomfortable, but it’s helpful for understanding the way many Protestants view the larger body of Christ, the “Holy Catholic Church” of the...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 Well, it’s a relief to discover that, despite all its troubles, the Roman Catholic Church is still capable of producing gripping melodrama. This weekend Pope Francis was in Ireland, capping off the Church’s “World Meeting of Families,” held in Dublin. He apologized over and over again for the sins of...

By Michael Gryboski – christianpost.com – July 28, 2018 First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, the megachurch headed by Pastor Robert Jeffress, will be celebrating its 150th anniversary on Sunday. Originally founded on July 30, 1868, the church that began with 11 members now has approximately 12,000 people on its membership roll. FBC Dallas is planning to hold a special...

By Wycliffe Associates – resources.wycliffeassociates.org – current MAST (Mobilized Assistance Supporting Translation) training is available to empower the global church to draft their Bible in months rather than years. The pilot program took place in 2014.  Since that time, God has opened doors to expand its influence. MAST is also being developed to address oral language needs, deaf translation work,...

By: Mary DeMuth – marydemuth.com – July 13, 2018 Last night I watched the Paterno movie (HBO films). While it is not a documentary, the film agonizes the watcher with every single side of the sexual abuse “debate” especially when it comes to institutional protectionism. Here’s the trailer: The entire movie grieved me, triggered me, saddened me. I see the...