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(VIDEO)
Pastor Anthony Hopkins Jailed After Wife Found In Freezer
Police believe a body
found in a small-time
evangelist's home freezer is his wife and a mother of eight, and
arrested him on a murder charge as he preached at a south Alabama
church. Evangelist Beverly Jackson of Inspirational Tabernacle Church
of God In Christ in Jackson, Alabama told CBS affiliate WKRG-TV Anthony
Hopkins had just preached about forgiveness Monday night when sheriff
deputies placed him under arrest. When Jackson asked police why they
were arresting Hopkins, she says they told her, "He murdered his wife."
According to Jackson, Hopkins told her that his wife died four years
ago while giving birth to their youngest son.
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Governor
Deval Patrick Signs Bill to Allow Non-Resident 'Homosexual Marriages'
Joy Spring and Carla
Barbano spent the day
before their wedding the way many brides do: relaxing and primping at a
spa. But unlike most, their wedding day had to wait until Gov. Deval
Patrick signed a bill Thursday that repealed a 1913 law that had
blocked gay couples from outside Massachusetts from marrying here.
"We're being recognized as a married couple," said Spring, of
Middletown, N.Y., who planned to wed Barbano, her partner of seven
years, at a ceremony Friday in Provincetown. Supporters of the repeal
of the law, which banned couples from marrying in Massachusetts unless
their unions would be legal in their home states, say lifting the ban
was not only fair but will have economic benefits.
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McCain Camp: Obama is Playing the
Race Card
Republican White
House hopeful John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday of
playing racial politics in some of the most biting back-and-forth of
the presidential campaign. The negative twist in the campaign for the
November 4 election was prompted by a McCain television advertisement
on Wednesday that called Obama a celebrity akin to star-crossed U.S.
personalities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. In response, Obama said
McCain was trying to scare voters away from him by pointing out he had
"a funny name, and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the
dollar bills and the five dollar bills."
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Dr.
Yvonne Capehart asks the Question: "What's Going on in the Lives of
our Christian Leaders?" in Her New Book, The Spirit of Assassination
The
Spirit of Assassination, by Dr. Yvonne Capehart, is an eye-opener as to
why Christian leaders are engaging in sinful activities, losing their
testimony for Christ, and falling by the wayside. Jesus Christ, before
His death shared with His disciples that the "prince of this world
cometh, and hath nothing in me" (John 14:30). Jesus, Who knows better
than anyone, the destruction that satan purposes to cause to Christians
tells us in His last discourse to His disciples: "I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil" (John 17:15). Dr. Capehart asks this question: "What's
going on?"
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Evangelicals Praise Christian-Muslim Talks
Two prominent
evangelical Christians
praised their dialogue with Muslim leaders on Thursday at the end of a
three-day conference seeking ways to ease tensions between the world's
two largest faiths. Leith Anderson, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, and Geoff Tunnicliffe, World Evangelical
Alliance international director, said some in their ranks had
criticized their participation as a concession to Islam. But both told
the final session they were able to openly discuss their religious
differences with Muslim participants while agreeing to work to find
more common ground with them.
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The
Book, The
Faith of Barack Obama, by Stephen Mansfield
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Orombi:
Archbishop of Canterbury has 'Betrayed' Anglicanism
I
love
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I love the Anglican Communion. So, why did
the bishops of the Church of Uganda and I decide not to attend the
present Lambeth Conference? Because we love the Lord Jesus Christ and
because we love the Anglican Communion. St Francis of Assisi said:
"Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary use words." We believe
that our absence at this Lambeth Conference is the only way that our
voice will be heard. For more than ten years we have been speaking and
have not been heard. So maybe our absence will speak louder than our
words.
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Women
of Faith Could Help Curb Extremism, Religious Conflict
Women
of
faith have the potential to curb religious extremism and reduce the
role of religion in conflict, says a new report from Catholic aid
agency Progressio. The report, "Faithful peace, peaceful faith," by
Jane McGrory, was released Wednesday and suggested that religious women
can offer a moderating voice. "Women of faith tend to represent
religion's 'human' face and to maintain a distance from its power
politics. From this position, they have great potential to enhance the
contribution of religion to peace, and to mitigate its role in violent
conflict," the report states.
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(VIDEO)
Folks Praying for Gas Prices to Come Down
At
a
Shell gas station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of
activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices. "Last week, this
station was 3.51 dollars. Now it's practically 3.60. So it's gone up
nine cents in one week," Twyman said as he pumped five dollars' worth
of gas into his thirsty American car. "Someone's making a lot of money
and it's really, really wrong," added Twyman, who founded the Prayer at
the Pump movement last week to seek help from a higher power to bring
down fuel prices, because the powers in Washington haven't.
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Strange
Bus Beheading in Canada
A
man was
stabbed to death then beheaded on a Greyhound bus in an apparent random
act of violence, according to an eyewitness. All lanes of traffic on
the Trans-Canada Highway remained closed Thursday morning west of
Portage la Prairie as the RCMP investigated what they would only refer
to as "a major incident" on the bus that was headed from Edmonton to
Winnipeg. At about 8:45 p.m. the vehicle was stopped in the eastbound
lane following an apparent assault. Garnet Caton, one of 37 passengers
on the bus, said he witnessed the attack.
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Is
Eckhart Tolle a Christian?
Oprah
Winfrey's recent promotion of Eckhart Tolle has put the German-born
author's latest work, A New Earth, on the bestseller lists with the
largest reprint run in the history of Penguin Books. Tolle, in turn,
has given Oprah a new sense of purpose. She calls her work with him the
most important and exciting thing she has ever done. This spring she
hosted 10 Monday-night web seminars with him. As many as one million
people watched them live, and 27 million more downloaded them afterward.
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Letters to Young Black Men:
Celebrating 52 Weeks (1 Year) on the Amazon.com Bestsellers List
(African-American Category); now You Can Also Buy Letters to Young Black Men on
Kindle for $6.99 and be Reading it Within One Minute
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Parenting
a Lead Factor in Income Inequality
It's
no
secret that the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown
over the last decade. The rich are getting very, very rich while the
poor and middle class are--while not worse off--certainly no better.
(Depending on your time frame, however, the poor actually are doing
worse.) This graph shows the average annual income of the top one
percent earners in 2005 was more than $1 million, while the middle 60
percent is just above $50,000 per year. That compares with the $500,000
the top one percent earned just ten years before, versus an average
income of just below $50,000 for the middle 60 percent. In other words,
while the top one percent doubled their income, the middle 60 percent
only modestly improved.
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Famed
Theology Professor Leaving Traditional Seminary Over Bible Claims
A
theology professor who was suspended for suggesting the Bible was the
work of both God and people has agreed to leave the conservative
seminary where he taught. In a joint statement, Westminster Theological
Seminary and professor Peter Enns said they "arrived at mutually
agreeable terms" that are effective as of Friday. No other details were
released. Westminster trustees voted in March to suspend Enns, a
tenured 14-year veteran of the school, because of his 2005 book,
"Inspiration and Incarnation."
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Woman
with KKK Link Represents School for Blacks
A
school
in Florida that aims to lift underprivileged African American and
Hispanic children out of poverty has as its spokesperson a woman with
ties to white supremacists. Chloe Black, the ex-wife of former Ku Klux
Klan head David Duke, is now married to Don Black, the creator of the
white-power hate site Stormfront, reports FoxNews.com. She is also a
spokesperson for Glades, a charter school for the children of
African-American and migrant workers in Pahokee, a rural town in Palm
Beach County.
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McCain
Failing to 'Galvanize' Republicans
A
political scientist says although presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama is an inexperienced candidate with some
naïve
foreign and domestic policy ideas, he has good reason to be optimistic
about his White House chances. The Washington Post and CNN both report
that during a recent closed door meeting with Democratic congressional
leaders, Senator Obama (D-Illinois) boasted he had "become a symbol of
the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." While
discussing his recent trip to Europe, he also stated, "This is the
moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world has been waiting for."
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The
Global Evangelical
The
Religious Right is in "disarray," the Newsweek religion correspondent
Lisa Miller recently declared. Noting in particular the conflict that
many younger American evangelicals feel about voting for Obama, she
quoted my colleague Alan Jacobs as saying that "the younger
evangelicals he teaches tell him, 'I have a very deep and instinctive
attachment to the pro-life movement, and I don't think I'm going to be
able to vote for someone who holds the views that Obama has, but I
don't see how I can vote for John McCain. So I'm kind of stuck.'"
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Let
Sandra Steen Show You how to Uncover the 'Joy-Robbers', Discover the
'Joy-Builders', and Live Your Best Life in her book Who Stole My Joy?
It was Abraham Lincoln
who said, "You're
only as happy as you make up your mind to be." But many of us are
losing our joy and happiness because we are allowing circumstances and
the pressures of life to snuff out our happiness. Author, Sandra Steen,
realizes that life is too short and too precious not to be enjoyed, and
so, through her book, Who Stole My
Joy? she shows you how to get and keep "joy unspeakable."
Just imagine yourself excited about life and full of joy all the time.
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Beijing
Christian Bookstore Owner Shi Weihan's Condition Deteriorating in Prison
Beijing
bookstore owner and House Church leader Mr. Shi Weihan, has been
suffering a deterioration in health since his imprisonment four months
ago. China Aid Association (CAA) says that poor prison conditions and
refusal of diabetes medication have contributed to Shi's lack of
health. Shi has lost more than 10 kg in body weight amidst the constant
physical and psychological torture employed by prison officials. CAA
says that recently Shi was coerced to sign and recognize a confession
convicting him of "engaging in the printing and distribution of a large
number of illegal publications."
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Evangelicals
Christians Warn Against Romney on Ticket
Prominent
evangelical leaders are warning Sen. John McCain against picking former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his running mate, saying their troops
will abandon the Republican ticket on Election Day if that happens.
They say Mr. Romney lacks trust on issues such as outlawing abortion
and opposing same-sex marriage and because he is a Mormon. Opposition
is particularly powerful among those who supported former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this
year.
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Stuck in the Middle, by Veronica Hendrix
I
never
thought much about being middle aged. But lately it's been on
my
mind. If we are promised three score and ten years - that's 70 years -
then the threshold of middle age is as early as 35-years-old. That
seems so soon to arrive at the middle of life's promised trajectory.
Life seems to have just gotten started and now its shifting gears.
Alas, I crossed that juncture some years ago. So that makes me middle
aged. Chances are if you are reading along, you may be middle aged too.
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Faith
Is Not a Freak Show
In
the
days after George W. Bush's 2004 reelection, political analysts
highlighted the Democratic Party's failure to speak the language of
faith in a way that resonated with American voters, particularly
Protestant evangelicals. This disconnect was partly due to substantial
differences on hot-button social issues, but more from the perception
that the Democratic Party was indifferent or hostile to genuine,
serious, heartfelt religion. Pundits argued that candidates who ignored
religion did so at their own peril. So Democratic strategists began
"finding" or "recovering" faith, while Republicans simply tried to keep
it.
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What
to Do When a Christian Musician Loses Faith
Everyone
who either grew up as an evangelical Christian or dated one has heard
or spoken this line: "It's not you. I just want to spend more time with
God." I always thought this line was a crock, not because wanting to
spend more time with God wasn't admirable, but because it was typically
used as a cop-out, a way to ease the discomfort of ruining someone's
junior year of high school. (See, I have this friend, and he had this
girlfriend ...)
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Tim
Russert's Son to Join NBC Convention Team
The
late
Tim Russert's son will take up a family tradition for NBC News, helping
to cover the Democratic and Republican conventions. Luke Russert's
assignment as a convention correspondent focusing on "youth issues" is
his first for NBC, the network said Thursday. Russert, 22, a recent
Boston College graduate, has been on the radio since 2006 as co-host
with pundit James Carville of "60/20 Sports" on XM Satellite Radio.
Never before in an election cycle has so much attention turned to the
youth vote, and Luke will bring a unique perspective to covering it,"
NBC News President Steve Capus said in a statement.
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Evangelicals
Plan 'Quiet' DNC Action
The
convention stew of politicians, delegates, protesters and general
hoopla that will be served to the city next month just got another
ingredient - a group of 60 evangelical churches planning a "quiet
demonstration" throughout the four-day event. One Church Metro Denver
will set up operations, including a tent, at Creekfront Park at Larimer
Street and Speer Boulevard in the heart of the Democratic National
Convention buzz. From Monday, Aug. 25, through the convention's closing
night Thursday, volunteers will distribute water, pray with people and
offer live worship music, said spokesman Steve Chavis.
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Second Coming Watch/World:
Hamas' Christian Convert: I've Left a Society that Sanctifies
Terror
“A moment
before beginning his
supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef,
glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where
we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and
Jesus for putting food on their plates. It takes a few seconds to
digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular
figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted
his father for years in his political activities, has become a
rank-and-file Christian. ‘I'm now called Joseph,’
he says
at the outset.
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On "Being Saved"
in Black America
While growing up in a very
religious and church-going family, I often heard the phrase "Being
Saved." Now to me and my peers, "Being Saved" was a rather spooky and
mystical thing, and only the real holy folk could be such —
whatever it was.
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What to Do After
you Enter Through the Door
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Be
Encouraged and Be an Encouragement
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Christian
Author of the
Week: Deborah Slappey Pitts
Deborah Slappey Pitts
is the author of I Feel Okay,
a heart-wrenching account of love, loss and inspiration listed in Booking Matters as
a national bestseller. In this sequel, Shadow
Living…Paintings of Grief,
Pitts chronicles her painful journey through despair after her husband
succumbs to the silent killer disease, primary amyloidosis. A native of
Americus, Georgia, Pitts is a graduate of Georgia Southwestern
University in Americus and Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.
Pitts travels the country as an inspirational and motivational speaker
educating others about the devastating effects of amyloidosis diseases
and the psychological and physiological effects of grief. Pitts has two
sons, Clyde Daryl and Alex Keith, and resides in Columbus, Georgia,
with her second husband, Marshall Pitts. E-mail
address: innisfree54@yahoo.com.
Visit her online at: www.DSlappeyPitts.com.
Pastor
of the Week: Dr. Phillip M. Davis, Pastor of Nations Ford Community
Church of Charlotte, NC
Phillip M. Davis is
the current and founding pastor of Nations Ford Community Church of
Charlotte, NC and the Nations Ford Community Church at Rock Hill in
Rock Hill, SC. A graduate of Xavier University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
of The Carolina University of Theology, Dr. Davis has served in
leadership capacities with the North American Mission Board, SBC, and
the Columbia International University, and is the founder of the Queen
City Bible College of Charlotte, NC. Dr. Davis is the
presiding
Bishop of the Community Church Network, founded to encourage and equip
church planters and church leaders. Dr. Davis has been married to his
wife, Cynthia, for more than 32 years and they have been in ministry
together for over 27 years and are the proud parents of three grown
children and two grandchildren. Dr. Davis is also the author of Father Force:
Changing the World One Life at a Time. Father Force
is available wherever fine books are sold. E-mail
address: rcarter@nationsford.org.
Website: www.nationsford.org.
(If
you want to submit information about your pastor to be reviewed for
possible inclusion in this section, please send that information
to: churchnews@blackchristiannews.com.)
Music
Minister of the
Week: Rev. Timothy Wright, Jr.
Reverend
Timothy Wright is no stranger to gospel music- in fact; he has become
an anchor for gospel choirs across the country. His music is considered
"Sunday Morning Ready" with a diverse array of traditional and
contemporary gospel music. He is also the pastor and founder of the
Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Rev. Wright first
developed his talents at the St. John's Fire Baptized Holiness Church
of God in Brooklyn, N.Y. In his spare time, he wrote poetry and began
to play the piano at age 12. This would soon lead to him composing for
the church's choir. A pivotal moment is his budding career came in 1969
when he began playing the piano for the late Bishop F.D. Washington at
the Washington Temple C.O.G.I.C. in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Through that
association, he was selected as organist for the Rev. Isaac Douglas and
the N.Y. community choir. With the exception of one, all the selections
on Douglas' classic best-selling 1971 album, "Let's Go Higher", were
written by Rev. Wright . This album was a landmark recording in the
early development of contemporary choir sound. In 1976, he founded the
Timothy Wright Concert Choir. Some of the choir's award winning and
best selling releases includes, Who's On The Lord's Side and Do You
Know The Light. He has also recorded with choirs across the county. Of
these recordings, his most memorable hits include: Troubles
Don't Last Always, Master Can You Use Me and Yes I'm A
Believer.
In addition to this, he also recorded a Stellar Award winning project
with Myrna Summers, entitled We're Gonna
Make It. In fact, one of his projects, Come Thou
Almighty King,
which has garned national recognition, was recorded with a 500 voice
choir, made up of New York's best gospel artists. Without question,
Timothy Wright proves once again that he is the "Godfather" of gospel
music. Get Rev. Wright's latest CD "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!"
and please continue to pray for the entire Wright family and the Grace
Tabernacle church family.
Website: www.myspace.com/reverendtimothywright.
Christian
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Week: Greater Mount Calvary Bookstore, Washington, DC
616 Rhode Island Avenue, NE; Washington, DC 20002; Ph:
202-832-4130; Fax: 202-529-6582; E-mail: gmchcbookstore@gmchc.org.
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2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd; New York, NY 10027; Phone:
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Inspirations
The
Word of God
for this Week
"For
whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his
life for my sake shall find it.” —
Matthew 16:25
The
Encouraging Word for this Week
"Have
you counted the cost if your soul should be lost
Tho' you gain the whole world for your own?
Even now it may be that the line you have crossed
Have you counted, have you counted the cost?"
The
Prayer Motivator for this Week
MOTIVATING
VERSE: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
thanksgiving." —Colossians 4:2
PRAYER
QUOTE: "Prayer does not equip us for greater work. Prayer is
the greater work!" --Oswald Chambers
The
Soul-Winning Motivator for this Week
"And
the things
that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." -2 Timothy
2:2
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE: "We will never get men truly saved until they realize that they
are truly lost." -- D.L. Moody
Black
Christian History
Reverend William W. Colley - an
African American Baptist missionary to Africa; founder of the Colored
Baptist Missions in Africa. He served in West Africa in 1875 as an
assistant to W.J. David, a white missionary from Mississippi. In 1880,
Colley was instrumental in the formation of the Baptist Foreign Mission
Convention, an African American organization which sponsored and sent
Black missionaries to Africa; in 1883 he returned to Africa under their
direction. This organization merged with two others in 1895 to form the
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, the first national organization
for African American Baptists. Colley traveled widely, lecturing to
gain support for the African missions. At one of his lectures, a notice
read "Eight years in the Wilds of Africa, where he learned to eat snail
soup and monkey stews...The colored Baptists have supported 13
missionaries in Africa during the last ten years, by whom hundreds of
heathen have been led to Christ."
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