Rev. Don Heath | Guest columnist Christian nationalism is a political ideology rather than a theological position. At its core, it is the belief that America is superior to all other nations, that God has uniquely blessed America above all other nations, and that America should be recognized as a Christian nation. Christian nationalism has […]
Article FILE-A central detail of the Shroud with the face (left). The 2015 Turin Shroud exhibition begins in Turin Cathedral, Italy. The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth with the image of a man. It is considered an important relic of Christ The order Italian researchers announced in a published study that they had examined […]
Davalynn Spencer | Especially for the News Leader Editor’s note: This week, writer Davalynn Spencer Norris Burkes is filling in. Back when flip phones were new, I worked as a police reporter, photographer, and religion page editor for Colorado’s The Cañon City Daily Record. Life was never dull. But I wanted to be a novelist. […]
By Anugrah KumarChristian Post employee Thursday, August 22, 2024 Unsplash/Ludovico di Giorgi After having his religious identity denied for over a decade, an Egyptian Christian has now been able to have his religious affiliation corrected on his identity documents, marking a significant victory for religious freedom in Egypt. The Cairo resident, known only as Elias […]
Samantha Jayne Allen won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her 2019 debut novel, Pay Dirt Road. Hillerman, not Native American, grew up among American Indians in Oklahoma and published 18 novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Longhorn and Jim Chee. These books, particularly “Skinwalkers,” “The Blessing Way” and “A Thief of Time,” were award-winning and […]
Samantha Jayne Allen won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her 2019 debut novel, Pay Dirt Road. Hillerman, not Native American, grew up among American Indians in Oklahoma and published 18 novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Longhorn and Jim Chee. These books, particularly “Skinwalkers,” “The Blessing Way” and “A Thief of Time,” were award-winning and […]
I participated in a caravan from Bend to Sweet Home, Lebanon and Albany to raise awareness that our current 5th Congressional District Representative, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is not representing me and many others in our newly created district. While she doesn’t hold impromptu town hall meetings, she does have the time to reliably vote with the […]
Have you mastered life yet? I ask this because when I was younger I apparently had the wrong idea that as you get older you understand life and it becomes much easier. I now realize that the Master’s degree in life that I thought I would have earned by now doesn’t exist, and that life […]
You may know the story of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopesthe subject of Brenda Wineapple’s new book, Keeping the faithIn the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” as the trial is better known, the state of Tennessee prosecuted a high school teacher under the Butler Act, which criminalized the teaching of human evolution in […]
Thanks in part to the work of a former Eau Claire detective, a Bible more than a century old will soon be in the hands of the direct descendants of its original owners, a prominent Green Bay couple who moved to Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War. The Bible has been in the possession of […]
