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U.S.
House Apologizes for Slavery, 'Jim Crow' Laws
The House on Tuesday
issued an
unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed
against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim
Crow segregation laws. "Today represents a milestone in our nation's
efforts to remedy the ills of our past," said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks
Kilpatrick, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The
resolution, passed by voice vote, was the work of Tennessee Democrat
Steve Cohen, the only white lawmaker to represent a majority black
district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary
face-off next week.
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Pastor
and Evangelist
Suspected of Killing Wife & Mother of 8, and Hiding Body in
Freezer for 3 Years
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. Anthony Hopkins, 37, was being held in the Mobile County jail
Wednesday awaiting a bond hearing and appointment of an attorney.
Police said no one reported 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins missing, even
though she hadn't been heard from in three years. The body was
discovered covered in a freezer in a utility room during a police
search of the home in Mobile after a relative of the preacher contacted
police.
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Is America Headed Toward a
Faith-Based Election?
Baptist minister and
former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee captured the Iowa caucuses early
this month. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, a Mormon, has
been forced to publicly defend his religion. Pundits compare Illinois
Senator Barack Obama's speeches to soulful church sermons. All along
the 2008 campaign trail, religion is much in the news, but is that
fascination with the religion of political candidates a new thing? And
what does it mean for the rest of the campaign?
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The
Book, The
Faith of Barack Obama, by Stephen Mansfield
hits Stores in two Days, Friday, August 1st. The regular price is
$19.99. Order your copy today for only $17.99 on BlackCBC.com.
(VIDEO)
Obama Catches Heat over Ludacris' Song titled 'Obama is Here'. Song
Disparages Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Jesse Jackson and America
Barack Obama's
presidential campaign said
Wednesday that a new rhyme by supporter and rapper Ludacris is
"outrageously offensive" to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican
Sen. John McCain and President Bush. The song brags about an Obama
presidency being destiny. It uses an expletive to describe Clinton,
calls Bush "mentally handicapped" and says McCain doesn't belong in
"any chair unless he's paralyzed."
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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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Professionals
Find Jobs Back in Rural Hometowns
Software
engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home
when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs,
had just brought in a dead opossum. Welcome to the professional life in
this slice of rural southwest Virginia. Like many before him, the
42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys
after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.
"I only left because there were no opportunities," he said.
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The
Master of My Fate, by Joseph C. Phillips
Prior
to
the recent Supreme Court decision rolling back the sentencing disparity
between crack and powder cocaine, the punishment for possession of 5
grams of crack cocaine was a minimum 5 year prison sentence. "Simple
possession of any quantity of any other substance by a first-time
offender-including powder cocaine- was a misdemeanor offense punishable
by a maximum of one year in prison."
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(Video)
New McCain Ad Targets Obama's Celebrity Status: Clip Shows Pictures of
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton to Drive Home Point
John
McCain is putting Barack Obama, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in the
same category - or at least the same ad. In an unusual campaign spot
released today (see video below), Team McCain dubbed Obama "the biggest
celebrity in the world" and cast him alongside fleeting images of
Spears and Hilton. The ad sashays quickly from the two vapid paparazzi
magnets - complete with sounds a flashbulbs popping - to question
Obama's experience and his positions on taxes and energy.
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Barack
Obama Hits Back: Ad Says McCain Taking the Low Road
Responding
to a harsh personal attack from John McCain, Barack Obama released a
television ad late Wednesday evening accusing the the Arizona
Republican's campaign of dirty, superficial politics. The spot, titled
"The Low Road," witnesses the Illinois Democrat playing his trump card:
tying McCain to George W. Bush, both in politics and in policy. "He's
practicing the politics of the past: John McCain," reads the ad. "His
attacks on Barack Obama: not true, false, baloney, the low road,
baseless. John McCain same old politics same failed policies."
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Rebel
With a Cause: Bobby Jindal's Spiritual Journey
In
1988,
16-year-old Piyush Jindal totaled his father's new car a few weeks
before graduating from Baton Rouge High School. Piyush -- who then and
now prefers the nickname "Bobby" he adopted from "The Brady Brunch"
sitcom -- had to assess more than fender damage with his parents.
"Which God do you have to thank for your safety?" Mr. Jindal, now
governor of Louisiana, remembers his mother, Raj, a practicing Hindu,
inquiring after he escaped from the wreck. For the child of Punjabi
immigrants who had announced his Christian beliefs the previous summer,
the question was difficult.
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Due
to Conflict with Evangelicals, Grassley won't be GOP Delegate
Evangelical
Christians in Iowa, dominant in the state's Republican Party, have
denied Sen. Charles E. Grassley his request for a place on the state's
delegation to this summer's Republican National Convention in St. Paul,
Minn. Mr. Grassley may attend the party's Sept. 1-4 nominating
convention in St. Paul, but not as a voting delegate. With a majority
of nine out of 17 members on the Iowa Republican central committee,
religious conservatives made Iowa Christian Alliance President Steve
Scheffler chairman of Iowa's 40-member delegation in a vote immediately
after their state party convention July 12.
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'More
Comfortable with McCain': Why Evangelical Leader Dobson is Warming to
the GOP Candidate
Dr.
James
Dobson, founder of the influential conservative Christian group Focus
on the Family, once said he would not vote for Senator John McCain
"under any circumstances." McCain, he has said, is too liberal the
issues Dobson cares most about, such as embryonic stem cell research
and gay marriage. Now Dobson appears to be changing his mind. "I never
thought I would hear myself saying this," he announced on his radio
broadcast on Monday. "While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the
possibility is there that I might." While Dobson was not available for
comment, Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family Action, the group's
lobbying organization, was. He spoke with Lisa Miller.
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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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Catholic
Schools Popular with Muslims
The
good
scores that students of Catholic schools posted in the secondary school
examinations this year back claims by parents and guardians of students
who are not Catholics that the schools offer some of the best-quality
education in Bangladesh. Pratibeshi, the national Bangla-language
weekly published by the Catholic bishops' Christian Communications
Centre, conducted a survey in 20 Catholic-run schools in Dhaka diocese
on the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam. All
students throughout the country take this exam when they finish 10th
grade.
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All
About Them (The latest film from Michael and Christine Swanson tells
the story of their own frustrations in finding theatrical distribution
for their faith-based movies.)
Moviemaking
is a family affair for Michael and Christine Swanson. He produces,
while she, a former student of Spike Lee's, writes and directs. This
month they released their second feature film since creating their
company, Faith Filmworks, in 1999. Their first film, All About You, was
produced in 2001 and toured the African-American festival circuit for a
few years before finally coming out on DVD in 2004. In the interim,
they tried to get theatrical distribution for their film, but in those
days before the big-screen arrival of Tyler Perry, studios tended to
insist that there wasn't much of a market for values-based, PG-rated
films aimed at black moviegoers.
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Mother
cleared of child-spanking charge
An
Idaho
mother charged for child injury – for spanking –
has allegedly been
cleared. Melissa Farrell was at a 4th of July parade in Coeur d'Alene
when she spanked her 21-month-old child in front of witnesses. "And the
reason she spanked her daughter [is] she wanted to keep her from
running out in the street where she could of gotten run over by a
truck," says Bryan Fischer of Idaho Values Alliance.
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Oxymoron:
WIC refers women for abortions
A
federal
agency is referring poor women to Planned Parenthood. Women, Infants,
and Children, often referred to as WIC, is a federally funded poverty
program. On its website is a link to Planned Parenthood, which commits
a fourth of this nation's abortions. Jim Sedlak is with American Life
League (ALL). "It's time for all government agencies to stop sending
people to Planned Parenthood and recommending Planned Parenthood,"
Sedlak urges. "It is time that the American taxpayer spoke up and told
their members of Congress that Planned Parenthood does not deserve to
be recognized by the government or anybody else."
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New
book tackles porn addiction
A
new
book details the path of human destruction left by the
$100-billion-per-year pornography industry. Michael Leahy authored the
book Porn Nation, which is based in part on his personal experience. He
was first exposed to porn at age 11, and that started what he calls a
"30-year relationship with the material." "...[T]hat would escalate
into a full-blown addiction the last five of those years that
eventually cost me a marriage of 15 years, my family of two boys, a
business partnership with my brother, countless relationships, [and] a
lot of money," Leahy details.
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Judge
orders university to recognize Christian fraternity
A
federal
appeals court has ordered University of Florida officials to recognize
a Christian fraternity. Judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit in Atlanta
have issued an injunction ordering the action while a discrimination
lawsuit filed by Beta Upsilon Chi against the school moves forward. The
fraternity hasn't been allowed to join the off-campus system of
fraternities and sororities because the rules bar religious
discrimination.
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Second Coming Watch/World:
More Jews in Israel are Believing in Jesus Christ
“In Israel, a
resurgence in the
number of Jews who believe in Jesus is getting a lot of attention. Many
leaders say it's the strongest growth since the time of Jesus and that
the Messianic movement could be on the brink of a great
revival.”
So said Wendy Griffith, CBN News Senior Reporter, in a story for The
700 Club. “This is the first time where we've seen Israeli
society in general being so open to consider who Yeshua is,”
Messianic leader Asher Intrater told her. “This is a real
miracle, and there's beginning to be grace and favor with us in the
land.”
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The
Black Christian Conference/Convention Season Has Begun! Runs
from June 1st through November. All major conventions
and
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Hampton Ministers’ Conference; 9th Annual First Lady
Conference;
all 4 National Baptist Conventions; AME Convention; COGIC Convention;
Independent Baptist Conference; COEBA Conference; Full Gospel Baptist
Church Conference; Reaching Creatures Conference; E.K. Bailey
Expository Preaching Conference; FBFA Conference; Tony Evans'
Conference; T.D. Jakes' Conference, and more.
ENTIRE VIDEO--NEW! Sermon of
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You Can't
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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
Be
an
encouragement by sending a "holla" to the following people! Also
be an encouragement by buying their books, sermon tapes, or music from
their
website or some other outlet today.
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
Bookstore of the
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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Black Bookstore
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2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd; New York, NY 10027; Phone:
212-665-7400; Fax: 212-665-1071; E-mail: info@hueman-bookstore.com.
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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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