Lifestory: Tim Keller – A life of extraordinary integrity
Australian CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reflects on his time working with US Christian leader Tim Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan following news last week that Keller had died at the age of 72…
Marj Carpenter, reporter who became US Presbyterian head, dies
Dallas, US AP Marj Carpenter, who pushed international missionary work while briefly leading the US’ largest Presbyterian denomination in the mid-1990s following a journalism career in West Texas that included covering millionaire swindler Billie Sol Estes, has died. She was 93. Carpenter, who once described herself as “sinfully proud” of being Presbyterian and traveled to more than […]
News coverage of Muslims is more negative than of other minority groups, says report
RNS A new study of how the media covers minorities in the United States finds that depictions of Muslims in the news remain by far the most frequent and the most negative. “Muslims are just way down there in comparison to the other groups,” said Erik Bleich, director of the Media Portrayals of Minorities Project […]
Norman Geisler, theologian and prolific author, dies at 86
RNS Theologian and Christian apologist Norman Geisler, the author of dozens of books and the co-founder of two seminaries, has died. He was 86. His family announced his death on Monday (1st July) on his website. “It is with great sadness that we share this news that Norm Geisler passed away peacefully this morning,” reads the […]
Rachel Held Evans, US Christian writer of honesty and humour, dies at age 37
RNS Rachel Held Evans, a popular progressive Christian writer and speaker, died Saturday morning at age 37 after a brief illness. Evans had been in a medically induced coma for several weeks and never returned to an alert state. Author Rachel Held Evans. Writer and collaborator Sarah Bessey tweeted that Evans was surrounded by close friends and […]
StrangeSights: Vale the ‘lutefisk dinner’; cockroach eating power; and, Elvis returns to Germany…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Eugene Peterson, author of ‘The Message’ and pastor to other pastors, dies at age 85
RNS Eugene Peterson, the best-selling author of The Message and longtime pastor praised as a “shepherd’s shepherd,” passed away Monday morning at age 85. Among Peterson’s last words were, “Let’s go,” according to a statement from his family. “During the previous days, it was apparent that he was navigating the thin and sacred space between earth and heaven,” […]
US Senator John McCain, known as a veteran but also a man of quiet faith
RNS US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war who embraced patriotism loudly and religion quietly, died Saturday at the age of 81. McCain was diagnosed in July 2017 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Sen John McCain in 2009. PICTURES: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo. The longtime Arizona Republican senator, reared in the […]