by Jeremy Bell | Jan 22, 2021 | General
A voice is heard in Ramah,weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her childrenand refusing to be comforted,because they are no more.(Matthew 2:18) Mortuary workers take off their protective clothing at the entrance of a building decorated with a Christmas tree,...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 20, 2021 | General
By Brian Kaylor for Word & Way, Jan. 20, 2021 On Tuesday evening as the nation’s COVID death toll passed 400,000, a man who knows grief too well told the nation why we needed to pause and reflect. To heal we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember. But...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 19, 2021 | General
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law. The Constitution does not...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 19, 2021 | General
(RNS) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two runoff elections for U.S. Senate and might be sworn in later this week. Will he be both a pastor and a politician? Yes, says Michael Brewer, a spokesman for the minister’s campaign, “he will remain senior...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 16, 2021 | General
(RNS) — Threats to religious freedom around the world are on the rise — from the persecution of Uighur Muslims, Christians and others in China, to Ahmadis in Pakistan, to the Rohingya in Myanmar — the list goes on. America’s First...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 7, 2021 | General
(RNS) — An online pro-Trump prayer meeting was filled with defiance on Wednesday night (Jan. 6), even as evangelical and charismatic supporters of President Donald Trump admitted that chances the election will be overturned were slim. The prayer time came after a...
