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VIA: AJC.com A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said the agency is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the Georgia hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street […]
VIA: New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that […]
VIA: USA Today When Rev. Rick Warren says “Urgent,” folks reach for their checkbooks — to the tune of $2.4 million and counting. Warren sent out an “urgent” plea Wednesday for the nation’s sixth largest church to come up with more than $900,000 in 48 hours to meet a budget shortfall and allow the Saddleback […]
VIA: AJC.com In the quiet of the Renaissance Middle School library, a half-dozen girls talk about a half-dozen ways Michelle Easley has affected their lives. Imani Dennis said she was something of a loner who never would’ve had the courage to run for vice president of the student body. LaShawn Simmons couldn’t have imagined being […]
VIA: CNN.com In many ways, the critically acclaimed film “Precious” is about hopes and dreams. When Mo’Nique, one of the movie’s stars, was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, she too longed for something. “I’ve always wanted to be famous,” the actress and comedian said. “I enjoyed watching famous people and so I wanted to be […]
VIA: The Christian Post The Florida pastor who sheltered runaway teen convert Rifqa Bary has formally denied that he knowingly broke the law to hide the Muslim-turned-Christian girl from Ohio. Pastor Blake Lorenz of Global Revolution Church in Orlando, in a sworn statement filed with the juvenile court in Franklin County, Ohio, where Rifqa’s family […]
VIA: HeraldSun.com AT&T is ending its sponsorship deal with golfer Tiger Woods. “We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future” a spokesman for the US telecom giant said. Friday Five: Tiger Woods New Endorsements Woods’ endorsers have lavished an estimated $110 million a year on him. Consulting […]
VIA: CNN.com Each Christmas, Christians tell stories about the poor baby Jesus born in a lowly manger because there was no room in the inn. But the Rev. C. Thomas Anderson, senior pastor of the Living Word Bible Church in Mesa, Arizona, preaches a version of the Christmas story that says baby Jesus wasn’t so […]
VIA: Creative Loafing Atlanta Before the Rev. Johnny L. Jones earned the nickname “Hurricane” for whipping sermons into a frenzy, before he recorded a string of gospel LPs for Jewel Records, before his church in Atlanta’s West End burned in 1973, and long before his records started showing up again in thrift stores to be […]
VIA: New York Daily News “The Tyra Banks Show” may be over, but her former employees have only just begun to spill about what it was really like to work on the CW gabfest. And we hate to break it to you TyTy, but it’s not all good. “There had been high turnover of employees […]
VIA: Colorado Springs Gazette Mike Hermanstorfer held his pregnant wife’s hand on Christmas Eve as it went ice cold, and she began to turn blue. “Half my family was lying right there in front of me — there’s no other way to say it — dead,” he said. “I lost all feeling. Once her heartbeat […]
Pastor Fred Phleps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas has declared war on Lady GaGa and is speaking on behalf of God saying that “GOD HATES LADY GAGA!!!” and that the singer is going to hell. He has put out a press release that promotes and explains why he and his congregation will be […]