Praise Report
President Barack Obama entertained Jimmy Kimmel‘s audience with some of the mean tweets sent his way, beginning with one sent by Donald Trump in August when he said “President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.” Obama’s reply: “Really? Well, @realDonaldTrump, at least I will go […]
Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson was on hand to celebrate the CD release of What A Legacy, a new commemorative CD featuring vintage recordings of Reverend Clay Evans and the Fellowship Baptist Church Choir of Chicago. The disc has instantly become a fan favorite, making its home into the top ten of the Billboard […]
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington is best known for his roles in “Glory,” “The Preacher’s Wife,” “Remember the Titans” and “Training Day.” Although the Hollywood A-lister has recently been sharing his faith openly at public speaking engagements, he reveals why he never became a preacher. In an interview with ABC News for his film, […]
getty images: To say the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is on everybody’s bucket list is an understatement. Put it like this. If you were planning to visit the new museum, unfortunately you’re going to have to wait until 2017. Yep, it’s that popular. The museum has sold out […]
Saddleback Church pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren is telling Christians that they should “personalize” scripture by inserting themselves into certain biblical passages. In an entry found on Rick Warren’s Daily Hope website published Sunday, Warren wrote a meditation centered on the Bible verse Philippians 1:6. “And I am certain that God, who began the […]
Erica Campbell recalls hanging out at her grandma’s house as kid with all of her siblings. If any of the kids acted up, Erica recalls, their grandma wouldn’t be mean or yell at them, she would pray at them. In this way she would reprimand them in love, as opposed to being antagonistic or spiteful. […]
Artwork showing in a classic pose, in white trunks and red boxing gloves, was stolen from an exhibit while it was open to the public at the Muhammad Ali Center. Surveillance cameras recorded the brazen theft, and a manhunt was under way for a suspect. The signed print of a painting by LeRoy Neiman, valued […]
Obama Unleashed: Maybe it’s his rapidly approaching return to life as a normal citizen. Or the knowledge that, two weeks from Election Day, his preferred successor is enjoying a decisive edge over Donald Trump. Or maybe it was just the West Coast vibe. In California this week, a loosened President Barack Obama left few Republicans […]
In this edition of Faith Walking, Erica Campbell talks about an article she read about the election which challenges believers to activist their faith. The article also goes on to say that the isolation of believers is what is crippling their ability to use their authority on earth. As Erica says, this article really fired […]
This week’s topic: The Wisdom Of God A few years ago, before I knew better, I got into an argument with someone over something that they’d taught publicly in a church setting. In the height of their exhortation and teaching, they exclaimed, “you got to go through it yourself to learn it!” Whew! While everyone […]