Tag: Billy Graham

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2016: Trash or Recycle?

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Anyone who spends just a few minutes on social media lately is bound to find some meme, picture, or post insinuating that the year 2016 has been weird and we should just move on from it and forget it.I’ve seen the year 2016 portrayed as a figure being thrown off a boat, a thing set on fire, and a bridge being burned, just to name a few. This year has often appeared to be a strange time, for any number of reasons, and many people (it would seem) just want to ..

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Here’s Who Will Pray at Trump’s Inauguration

(UPDATED) What the president-elect's unusually broad and diverse clergy lineup tells us.

Donald Trump has enlisted a larger, more diverse lineup of clergy than usual to pray him into office at his upcoming inauguration ceremony.

The group—bigger than any president’s since Ronald Reagan—reflects his politics, pragmatism, and personality. It includes evangelical leaders Franklin Graham and Samuel Rodriguez, as well as spiritual advisor Paula White, the Florida televangelist credited with hi..

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The Top 10 Testimonies of 2016

Here are the Christian conversion stories that CT readers shared most.

CT has devoted a premium slot in its print magazine—the back page—to a compelling story of Christian conversion. Dozens have shared their tales of how God brought them to himself. In case you missed the most-read CT testimonies from 2016, here's a roundup of the top 10.

10. Joanna Reed Shelton: My Missionary Great-Grandfather Led Me to Christ
But only after I went to Japan in search of his life story.

9. Marcus Doe: W..

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Minnesota Wants to Censor and Coerce Christian Artists

A Christian filmmaker is not a vending machine.

If that seems obvious to you, you’re probably not an employee of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

Carl and Angel Larsen own a Minnesota-based video production company, Telescope Media Group, that exists to tell compelling stories that honor God. They’d like to branch out and start conceiving, filming, and editing motion pictures that celebrate marriage as the union of one man and one woman in holy matrimony. For them, this is not merely ..

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The Narrative of Fear Surrounding Refugees: Preparing Ourselves for the Conversation

If we are pro-life, we are pro-refugee.

In this country fear has become a defining narrative, even among Evangelicals. It comes in many forms: fear of unemployment, fear of the unknown, fear of the infringement of rights—all concerning. But one in particular—fear of terrorism—has caused a unique problem when it comes to community and love of neighbor.

This fear has played a significant role in how we view ‘the other.’ Our fear of terrorism, and often of Muslims in general, has been perpetuated..