Commentary by Anthony B. Bradley, Assistant Professor, Covenant Seminary Initially published in Faith and Policy, Detroit News, November 3, 2009 Do at-risk black males need to be emancipated from America’s public school complex? A new study released about high school dropout and incarceration rates among blacks raises the question. Nearly 23 percent of all American... Continue Reading

By Michael Ireland Evangelist Billy Graham will celebrate his 91st birthday on Saturday, Nov. 7, and is looking forward to visits over the weekend from several family members at his western North Carolina home to mark the occasion. “I’ve experienced God’s gracious love in a personal way all these years,” Mr. Graham said, pausing to... Continue Reading

When two Wyoming, MI churches with a combined history of more than 180 years merged 15 years ago, church officials had a third entity they wanted to bring into the fold: the neighborhood. Today, members of Roosevelt Park Community Christian Reformed Church say that three-way merger has succeeded. “Fifteen years ago, we didn’t quite know... Continue Reading

By: Bobby Ross Jr. A tiny town in Oklahoma is throwing its support behind a push to build a privately run, faith-based prison that would employ only Christians and attempt to rehabilitate inmates using biblical concepts. Bill Robinson, founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., a Dallas-based nonprofit ministry, said he is living proof of how ex-criminals... Continue Reading

BY NIRAJ WARIKOO When Kazi Miah came to the United States 20 years ago from Bangladesh, he didn’t speak a word of English. Now, he’s a successful politician who is to be one of three Bangladeshi-American Muslims on Hamtramck, Michigan’s six-member City Council, a percentage that Muslim advocates said they believe is the highest Muslim... Continue Reading

Mormon Tabernacle revival service is latest sign of openness to evangelicals. Robert Millet would do things differently if he were carefully strategizing how fellow Mormons could best pursue interfaith contacts. “I probably wouldn’t have started with evangelicals,” said the Brigham Young University (BYU) professor, considering the antagonism between the two groups since Mormonism’s beginnings. “If... Continue Reading

Creationism is growing in the Muslim world, from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia, international academics said last month as they gathered here to discuss the topic. But, they said, young-Earth creationists, who believe God created the universe, Earth and life just a few thousand years ago, are rare, if not nonexistent. One reason is that... Continue Reading

Pro-life lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have slammed purported compromise language on abortion in healthcare reform as a “sham.” The language was proposed in an amendment known as the “Ellsworth amendment” by Democrats desperate to overcome a bloc within their own party that will attempt to bring down the abortion-expanding bill if it... Continue Reading

By Cindy Wooden The Vatican said it experienced “surprise and sorrow” when a European court ruled that the crucifixes hanging in Italian public schools violate religious freedom. The European Court of Human Rights ruled Nov. 3 that the crucifixes hanging in every public classroom in Italy were “a violation of the freedom of parents to... Continue Reading

On a recent afternoon in Geneva, stagehands prepared the Protestant meeting hall on the Place de la Fusterie for a musical, “The Calvin Generation,” to be performed there that evening. Springtime for Calvin? Not quite. The religious reformer, best known for his doctrines about a depraved humanity and a harsh God predestining people to hell... Continue Reading