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Church members call for change amid violence, virus, racism

Andre and Tailynn Davis sat on the edge of their living-room couch, a box of tissues at arms’ reach. Their bodies were weary, their faces drawn with grief as they joined a Facebook Live broadcast of the Sunday service at the Church of Christian Compassion. “You are going to have to learn how to forgive people ... ,” said W. Lonnie Herndon, their charismatic pastor, on that Sunday morning in late July. “Pray for those who hurt you.” Six weeks earlier, on June 7, two men had shot and killed their 21-year-old son, Robert Wood III — police say they wanted his backpack. The ...

Footsteps to Follow: Nature is to forgive

Many people are saying that the world is rather frightening. There are too many areas of division in our world. From controversies around masks to the societal issues of discrimination, our divisions have ranged from conversations to riots. The two emotions seem to be fear and anger. ...

Faith Matters: All lives matter

You would have to have your head in the sand not to know the context in which this statement has been spoken these days. And you would have to be similarly out of the loop to be unaware that - as a rebuttal to a similar saying - it has been a point of contention. From a Christian point of ...

Pilgrims pray on peak day of hajj in shadow of coronavirus

UBAI, United Arab Emirates — Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam’s holiest site, to pray and repent on the most important day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The global coronavirus pandemic has cast a shadow over every ...

Footsteps to Follow: Why not me?

Today my mission is to ask, is this me. Wow, what happened? It can be so many choices, good or bad. It is up to you. James 1:23-25 might help you come to a decision. “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in the mirror, for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (NKJV). We should be doers. In making good or bad ...