Angela Renee Ingram has the legal name of James Dean Ingram, but lives as a woman. On Aug. 30, Judge Bill Graves denied her request to make Angela her legal name. He said Ingram’s DNA could not be changed to that of a female, and therefore, allowing a name change would be the furtherance of […]
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Man with a mission
<span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB” lang=”EN-GB”> Brian McClaren Why did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed cross the road? There is no punch line. The question doubles as the title of the new book by evangelical author Brian McLaren. In 2001, he launched a revolution in evangelical culture with A New Kind of Christian, the first book […]
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15 book titles from Mustang-based Christian publisher Tate Publishing that sound pornographic
1. The Story and Poems of the Boy from Dingle Hole Road by Al Luckette 2. Inside My Special Box by Helena R. Chung 3. Joy Comes in the Mourning by Korika L. Johnson 4. Adventures of the Wee People by Woody Miller 5. Mom from Down Under by Margaret Brittingham 6. Aidan & His […]
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Where Do We Go Now?
Slated to open Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial, the movie is set in an isolated Lebanese village with an uneasy truce between the town’s Christian and Muslim populations. The peacekeepers are the women — Christian and Muslim alike — who distract the men’s bellicose tendencies any way they can, whether […]
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CFN WTF Email of the Week
Credit: Brad Gregg “God has called me to rebuke KEVIN DURANT for endorsing the company honoring the PAGAN GODDESS NIKE! DURANT is paid 60 MILLION to insult God! What will happen to Durant when God’s blessings are taken away from him? What will happen to the Thunder?” —Charles Hubbard, Oklahoma City
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Poised for progress
The election of an African-American president to an organization with its roots in slavery is being heralded as a milestone in racial reform. The Southern Baptists broke off from Northern Baptists in 1845 in support of slavery. Having supported Jim Crow and resisted integration for more than a century, the organization officially apologized in 1995. […]
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One for the books
Ryan Tate credit: Mark Hancock The Journal Record broke the story of Tate Publishing firing of 25 employees and released the leaked audio of the meeting in which Tate prayed with, insulted and threatened staff. The Mustang-based publishing company was founded on Christian principles in 2001 by Richard and Rita Tate, Ryan Tate’s parents, and […]
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Vesper recipe
With two albums surveying themes of hope, redemption in Jesus, and supernatural healing to their name, it’s no surprise that The Vespers are a band of Christians. But are they a Christian band? A closer look at the college-aged siblings’ output and business acumen suggests they’re aiming for the former. “When we got together, we […]
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Pious people
Credit: Brad Gregg While the survey methodology sounds very science-y — using census data and whatnot — it would have been easier for researchers simply to drive through OKC and count the corners without churches. (The actual number is 21.) OKC was ranked behind Salt Lake City and Birmingham, Ala. One of those cities has […]
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RIP, GCB
Brad Gregg Chenoweth took to her Twitter account to announce how “saddened” she and her fellow GCBs were. GCB, if you’ll recall, stood for Good Christian Bitches, the novel it was based on, but in some press interviews, Chenoweth, a Christian herself, said the initials stood for Good Christian Belles. (If that were the case, […]