You are your own worst enemy. Jamal Harrison-Bryant came to this realization after a series of unfortunate events took place in his life in which he made some wrong decisions--decisions that cost him his integrity and his testimony for Christ. Read More
After spending hours upon hours on Facebook for this fun story about all the crazy/intriguing things people list as their religion on Facebook, I started wondering what DC's political heavyweights put on their Facebook pages. Read More
Under a banner reading "Celebrating our oneness ... One family, one God, one great joy," two churches gathered Sunday for a historic service at Cochran Chapel United Methodist Church in North Dallas. Read More
Allen Chapel is named in honor of Richard Allen, the founding father of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Murfreesboro's oldest black congregation was established by newly freed men and freed women in 1866 in the early months of Reconstruction. Read More
Black and white church communities gathered in prayer at Pilgrim Baptist Church on Sunday. Dozens of worshippers sat and listened to messages from the Harrison Avenue-based Rock Church, whose leaders were guests of the Pilgrim church community -- which celebrated its 92nd anniversary Aug. 23 -- for the evening. Read More
Race-based attacks and criticism of President Obama have been on the rise during the dog days of August. And they're not just happening at health care town hall protests. Read More
President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf wars and red tape don't slow the pace of the continuing recovery. Read More
A fire 30 miles away from Sacramento burned several homes and businesses, prompting Governor Schwarzenegger to call a state of emergency in Placer county. Read More
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his conversion to Catholicism two years ago began with his wife, and that "there was something" about the universal nature of the Catholic Church that made the switch from Anglicanism feel right to him. Read More
The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and it's putting a shockingly younger face on flu. Read More
Israel has launched an air strike in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. There was damage, but no reports of injuries.
After a year of sparse activity, leaders of Charlotte's African American community are seeking to revive the local chapter of the NAACP.
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At a church service Sunday to honor African-American male teachers, the talk turned to the mentors who had made a difference in the lives of some black educators.
Christian rock band MercyMe marked the 10th anniversary of their hit single "I Can Only Imagine" earlier this year with the release of their "best of" album, 10. Read More
Voters in Gabon have gone to the polls to elect a successor to President Omar Bongo, who died in June after leading his country for 41 years. Read More
Parents of semi-adult children, listen up. Under new laws aimed at protecting college students from debt, you could get stuck with your kids' credit card bills. Read More
Years after protesting late-term abortions at the late George Tiller's now closed clinic in Wichita, Kan., a pro-life group has moved its efforts to Bellevue, Neb. 
Randall Silas is the new bishop of a Hattiesburg congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 
Guilford County's School Superintendent is looking for ways to reduce his drop out rate, specifically among black males. 
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday evening, celebrated for "the dream he kept alive" across the decades since their deaths. 
Text of President Obama's eulogy at Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral Mass on Saturday in Boston, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House: Read More
Elections for the president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg chapter of the NAACP are scheduled for Monday, with two candidates facing off against each other. 
Its first classes were held in an old slave jail at the close of the Civil War. A half-century ago, its students held sit-ins to protest a segregated lunch counter in downtown Richmond. Read More
On this, the fourth anniversary of the destruction of New Orleans, let us resolve to replace the political heat of accusation with the penetrating light of reason. Read More
Israeli legal authorities indicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges Sunday, the first criminal indictment ever filed against a current or past Israeli prime minister. Read More
General Motors has signed up to a 2bn yuan ($293m; £180m) joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW to make light trucks and vans. Read More
Less than a year into Barack Obama's presidency, the promise of hope has faded. America's public square is an angry and bitter place. Read More
The spirited chanting and drumming started up again, and the murderer -- a skeletal man in his 60s -- made a beeline for me. Read More
The 39-year-old supermodel, who is a close friend of Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister's wife, claims that major companies are refusing to use non-white women to promote their products. 
The numbers were already shocking: Eight out of 10 black women are either overweight or obese. But now it's worse: 40 percent are obese. And 54-year-old Susan Polite of Buffalo can be counted among them. At just 5-foot-2, Polite has weighed much as 240 pounds.
Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age. 
Singer/Songwriter Kevin LeVar has embarked on a powerful campaign encouraging and ministering to the world to embrace and practice acts of forgiveness. 
President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf wars and red tape don't slow the pace of the continuing recovery. He also said he would visit New Orleans by years' end. Read More
A Tempe pastor is raising eyebrows with his prayers that include his pleas for the death of President Barack Obama. Read More
Up until two years ago, Elizabeth Jacobson was the top producing loan officer in the subprime division at Wells Fargo. Today she is speaking out against the practices of her former company. Read More
Famous Civil Rights leader, Ralph Abernathy, was a campus speaker when I was in college. In a packed ball room he told about his experiences in the Movement and about working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read More
Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church formed in the 1880s to serve freed slaves and survived two fires in the next 120 years, but it may be facing its biggest challenge. Read More
Hundreds gathered in an auditorium here Thursday night to praise God with Dr. Juanita Bynum II, an evangelist whose life story has at times been as stormy as the weather people braved to hear her. Read More
Police in a small Oklahoma farming community are warning local religious leaders to secure their churches after a pastor was brutally stabbed while awaiting parishioners in her church. Read More
Pastor Eric Jones had led a congregation in New Jersey for 27 years when he said God told him in 2006 to move the church to Charlotte. He'd never even been here. Would his flock follow? Read More
The glass-topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till's disfigured body to the world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement is headed to the Smithsonian Institution, Till's family announced Friday. Read More
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu received on Thursday in Germany 29 sketches of the Auschwitz death camp and declared, "We cannot allow evil to cause massive death. We must stop evil in due time." Read More
Nearly four years after Katrina, more than a hundred people gathered on the Church of the Redeemer property Friday morning. They came to pray, to sing, and to remember. Read More
The Faith & Reason Book Club goes to college this week. Haroon Moghul looks at Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America's College Campuses by Donna Freitas from Oxford University Press. Read More
More minorities are taking the SAT, but test scores for black students remain lowest among racial and ethnic groups, according to data released this week by the College Board.
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Usually I like to go big: Dream big (I want to cut 5 minutes off my 10K time), breakfast big (I actually like to have two A.M. meals--one at home early and one when I get to the office midmorning), and give big (ask my friends, family and coworkers--my gifts are usually generous). 
The ink outlines may be crudely etched, the style described as impressionistic, at best. But for fans of Michael Jackson, the pose struck by the figure in the foreground is unmistakable. 
A growing number of well-known names from TV, movies, music, books and the Web are touting products to their legions of followers online. Home-improvement expert Bob Vila has tweeted/vouched for K-Mart, and reality star Kim Kardashian is representing Armani. Read More
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. Read More
Friends, relatives and political comrades celebrated Sen. Edward Kennedy in an all-star Irish wake Saturday that highlighted the veteran Massachusetts Democrat's gift for friendship, his love of music and practical jokes, and the storied family that supported him in his final illness. 
Car dealers and industry observers are puzzling over whether the now-ended Cash for Clunkers program will jump-start the recession-hammered auto industry or just be a flash in the economic pan. 
Calls are growing louder for Gov. Mark Sanford to resign over his extramarital affair and questionable travel on commercial, state and private planes. 
In a spacious former grocery store, Guardian Angel Thrift sells donated knickknacks, pairs of shoes, cassette tapes, used toasters and everything and anything else.
A growing list of evidence indicates the economy may be starting to emerge from the longest recession ever to plague the U.S. since World War II.
Wedding bells are ringing again for Bishop Thomas Weeks. The preacher has announced that he'll be marrying Prophetess Christina Glenn on October 17 in Atlanta. Read More
Investigators have offered a $10,000 reward in the killing of a pastor at an Oklahoma church, a crime the local prosecutor described as "horrific." Read More
We all get angry, but we do so in different ways. Some of us explode. Others simmer silently. But none of us is immune. It's a very normal human reaction. Jesus got angry. In the Old Testament it says 375 times that God got angry. Read More
'Efforts to change sexual orientation are unlikely to be successful and involve some risk of harm." So says a new American Psychological Association report affirmed by its governing body in a 125-to-4 vote. Read More
The Brazilian paper Folha de S. Paulo reported last week that Bishop Edir Macedo and nine associates from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) were charged with fraud against the church and its followers. Read More
Rev. Jesse Jackson is trying to figure out why BMW issued a "Non Urban Dictate (NUD)" (a.k.a. no ad spots in urban media) for an upcoming advertising campaign surrounding one of its vehicle brands. Read More
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain understood the timelessness that comes with attitude. Take it a step further to fulfill your destiny, even in the twilight years. 
The number of Israelis who see US President Barack Obama's policies as pro-Israel has fallen to four percent, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post. 
Evangelical Christians have been plowing money into Africa for decades, even before megachurch pastor Rick Warren made it fashionable with his development program in Rwanda. Read More
A Kentucky law that requires the state Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth" was struck down as unconstitutional on Wednesday.
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Ford Motor has high hopes for Fiesta, a popular model abroad launching in the U.S. next year. So how does it introduce the subcompact car to Americans? A massive ad blitz on TV? In-house promotions at dealers nationwide? Nope. Read More
