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Pastor’s tornado tweets stir up a theological debate

Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.

Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly tweets Bible verses, but two verses he tweeted after the tornado struck some as at best insensitive and at worst bad theology

12 faith-related resources for helping Oklahoma

Want to send aid to Oklahoma in the wake of the EF-5 tornado that tore through on Monday?

Here's a quick look at 12 faith-related organizations you can give through.

BRIEF: Book reading to raise money for Youth Emergency Services of Ponderay County

On May 31 Venerable Thubten Chodron, founder of Sravasti Abbey, will read from her latest book, "Don't Believe Everything You Think" to raise money for youth in Ponderay County.

YES provides for homeless teens, of which there are more than 100 in the Ponderay County area.

The Dalai Lama in Portland

The Dalai Lama addresses the press in Portland.

BREAKING NEWS: Director of local health ministries program disappears in Kiev

Upper Columbia Conference Health Ministries Director Dr. Jay Sloop disappeared today while walking in Kiev, Ukraine.
According to a press release Sloop has been in the Ukraine with a team of health professionals for the past three weeks helping the local Adventist church set up a lifestyle center in Kiev.

Catholic population surges across the Global South

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday (May 13), signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin American pope.

Dalai Lama says affection can change the world

After spending three days listening to His Holiness the Dalai Lama teach in Oregon, the Venerable Thubten Jampa, of Sravasti Abbey, is still processing the experience.
“What I really found amazing,” she said, “was when he went to leave, then turned back, and said ‘I’m the same as you. You have the same potential I have.’”

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