Author: By Emily McFarlan Miller Religion News Service
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Marketing ploy or sacred art? Bible publishers appeal to millennials with focus on design
At first, social media users weren’t sure if it was an elaborate April Fool’s joke. It was, after all, April 1 when the billboard appeared above New York City’s Canal Street advertising a Bible with a $300 price tag. The limited edition, art-inspired GPC NIV Bible is described on its website as a “modern version…
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Tim Tebow, Jim Daly scheduled to speak at annual March for Life this week
The March for Life will be virtual this year. The annual anti-abortion event, which was set to take place Friday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has brought demonstrators to the nation’s capital each year since the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 1974 to hear from speakers and march to the Supreme…
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Evangelist Franklin Graham prepares for role in Trump’s inauguration
The Rev. Franklin Graham isn’t sure which Scripture he’ll read at Friday’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The evangelist won’t get to make remarks at the event, but he will get to pick his own Bible passage, which could say a lot. Will it be something hopeful to heal a divided nation? Something pointed about…
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Can pastors make a comeback after scandal?
Paul Hand may not be as well-known as a Tullian Tchividjian or, back in the day, a Ted Haggard or Jim Bakker. But Hand has something in common with those once-popular preachers: In 2014, the husband and father of two had what’s known in Christian circles as a “moral failure” – in his case, an…