Aug 31, 2023
Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida’s Big Bend area yesterday morning. Some residents who chose to ride out the storm at home had to “swim out of their windows” to escape waves of water crashing through their front doors. In other news, a fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg,...
Aug 30, 2023
Hurricane Idalia strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm early this morning and is expected to make landfall soon on the Big Bend region of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The National Weather Service predicts the storm will “likely be an unprecedented event” for the area, noting that no major hurricanes have struck...
Aug 29, 2023
Idalia has strengthened to hurricane force and is expected to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast tomorrow as a powerful Category 3 hurricane. On this day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, resulting in 1,800 lives lost. Natural catastrophes like hurricanes starkly remind us of our mortality, and Christians and...
Aug 28, 2023
Sixty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famed “I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington. Last Saturday, thousands of Americans gathered in our nation’s capital to commemorate the event.
The same day, a white gunman killed three Black...
Aug 25, 2023
The Los Angeles Dodgers recently held their first Christian Faith and Family Day since 2019, featuring the likes of actor Chris Pratt, pitcher Clayton Kershaw, manager Dave Roberts, and singer Jeremy Camp. Eighteen Major League teams host similar Faith and Family nights. While the details can vary from place to place,...