Shawn Johnson is a decorated 2008 Olympic gymnast and 2009 Dancing with the Stars winner, but unknown to many, she carried around a secret pain for a long time.

Kevin Wheeler, Jr., was the dean of students at Triumph Middle School in Harper Woods (a suburban city that borders Detroit) and is remembered as someone who oriented his life around helping others. 

Apostasy (abandoning Islam through speech or behavior, including conversion to Christianity) and morality laws have been eliminated, and female genital mutilation is now banned in Sudan.

We can be thankful that folks are once again concerned with what is true. But at the same time I would argue that what is being promoted as discernment has actually more in common with Gnosticism than biblical discernment.

Now that groups have discovered the ease of using an online meeting tool such as Zoom, it may be time to take advantage of a neat feature: using breakout rooms.

I don’t want to minister in a church in which people don’t trust each other. And I refuse to work with leaders I can’t trust. But trusting each other doesn’t mean we shouldn’t put proper financial checks and balances in place.

When it comes to our faith, we need to grow so we will no longer be tossed about.

As a museum, the Hagia Sophia symbolized the idea of there being common artistic and cultural values that transcended religion to unite humanity.” Converting it into a mosque, scholar Nicholas Danforth says, “is an all too appropriate symbol for the rise of right-wing nationalism.”