Dhati Lewis set out to start a church that could be a blueprint for urban discipleship, a church “in the city, for the city, that looks like the city.” But first, he needed a city. A decade ago, he left the college town of Denton, Texas, for Atlanta, an urban hub four times larger. With …
RACIAL RECONCILIATION IS STILL A DREAM FOR ATLANTA CHRISTIANS Read More »
The remains of a Ghanaian Christian beheaded by the Islamic State terrorist group on a Libyan beach in an execution video in 2015 has finally been laid to rest in Egypt. Cairo-based journalist Farid Y. Farid reported on Sept. 29 that the body of Matthew Ayariga was finally laid to rest alongside the 20 Coptic …
LAST OF 21 CHRISTIANS MARTYRED BY ISIS IN LIBYA FINALLY LAID TO REST AFTER 5 YEARS Read More »
From my apartment in Midtown Atlanta, I could hear the helicopters above the protesters after the murder of Rayshard Brooks in June. By then, demonstrators had been in the streets for weeks, incensed by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. In cities across the country, crowds were marching for black …
ATLANTA BEYOND MLK: HOW BLACK CHRISTIANS CONTINUE A CIVIL RIGHTS LEGACY Read More »
While white evangelicals’ support for President Donald Trump is close to the strong backing he enjoyed in 2016, voters’ motivations have shifted during his first term at the White House. This year, a majority are excited to get behind Trump, rather than being primarily motivated by a distaste for his opponent. Among white evangelical Trump …
WHITE EVANGELICALS ARE ACTUALLY FOR TRUMP IN 2020, NOT JUST AGAINST HIS OPPONENT Read More »
Former Obama faith adviser Michael Wear blasted President Donald Trump’s son’s claim that his father “literally saved Christianity,” calling it blasphemous and just a ploy to get Christians to save the president’s re-election campaign. Wear, who directed faith outreach for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and is an adviser to a new Super PAC trying to …
OBAMA FAITH ADVISER PUSHES BACK AGAINST ERIC TRUMP’S CLAIM HIS DAD ‘SAVED CHRISTIANITY’ Read More »