Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and prayed at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, died on Friday at 98-years-old.
Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and prayed at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, died on Friday at 98-years-old.
Influential pastor and author Dr. Vinson Synan passed away over the weekend in Oklahoma City.
On Friday, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, Retired Bishop Barbara Harris, died at the age of 89.
Roy Larson, director of the Garrett-Medill Center for Religion and the News Media, died this week at the age of 90.
Nearly 20,000 people gathered in the Staples Center in Los Angeles to mourn the loss of legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant and his young daughter Gianna.
There is a strain of apocalyptic doom in all of Christianity. Both Old and New Testaments encourage readers to pay attention to the world around them and to be alert for signs of divine activity, especially for the time of God’s coming judgment. The Apostle Paul warned that “the Lord will come like a thief in the night” and that Christians must be “alert and sober.” While expressly forbidding his disciples to wait on the end times, Jesus, in his great eschatological discourse in the Gospel of Mark, told his disciples: “Be on guard. Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.”
In the wake of basketball legend Kobe Bryant's untimely death, the LA Lakers' Chaplain is turning to scripture for hope.
Every day is a gift. Every single heartbeat and every breath you take is a blessing. Don’t take it for granted. And don’t take your health or your family for granted either.
As the world mourns the loss of one of the greatest basketball players of all time, we also reflect on the faith of Kobe Bryant.
“We never know when our time here will be over, so we all need to make the most of every minute we have,” the late basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote in a column right after 9/11.
