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Stephen Curry called out Gilbert Arenas, Nick Young and Emmanuel Acho by name after they criticized Ayesha Curry’s first leading film role. Young apologized within hours. Arenas stood by his point.
Irma P. Hall, whose goodbye to her grandson in “Soul Food” broke hearts in 1997, has died at 91. Before fame found her, she taught Texas students for more than two decades and later served her Dallas church as Church Mother.
GloRilla says no one can shame her for praising God. Inside the backlash over her Kirk Franklin songs and the church’s long fight over gatekeeping.
Bishop Rudolph McKissick Jr. named Byron Donalds, Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas from Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church pulpit, using some of the harshest words Black Americans use on one another. Can a preacher disagree without degrading?
Jakiyra Metcalf, Victoria Johnson and Kaiyden Caldwell told CBS Mornings that one woman kept making the gestures after they confronted her. They spoke a day after Alaina Kunes apologized and left the university.
Gospel
“God won't put more on you than you can bear.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “God helps those who help themselves.” Christians have repeated these familiar expressions for generations. But are they actually in the Bible?
Nearly two-thirds of churchgoers scored below 60% on a Bible literacy assessment. A closer look at 2 Timothy 2:15 reveals what it means to study Scripture diligently and grow in understanding of God's Word.
For the bone-tired woman in an unfinished season, John 4 shows a weary Savior who finished His saving work and invites her into a harvest she was never meant to carry alone.
Jesus’ own claims, the Godhead, the empty tomb and more than 500 witnesses equip Christians to explain why Jesus Christ stands alone.
Inspiration
You read a verse at dawn and it steadies you. By midmorning it is gone. Selah, a small word in the Psalms, shows how to stay with what God has said.
When loss, letdowns or hard times weigh on your heart, joy is still within reach. Seek God’s face, and draw on the strength and joy found in His presence.
Trouble has a way of testing what we believe about God. On Mount Carmel, Elijah showed a wavering nation who the true God is. His power has not diminished, and His worthiness has not changed.
Prayed until you’re worn out and the answer still hasn’t come? Psalm 69 shows a desperate prayer is an act of faith, and God hears the needy.
Dreading the holidays after loss or illness? Dianna Hobbs shares how Scripture makes room for grief and gratitude when you are hanging by a thread.
Wellness
The FDA is requiring Ozempic, Wegovy and every other GLP-1 drug to warn of NAION, a rare eye condition that can cause sudden, permanent vision loss in one eye.
University of Michigan researchers found that dementia caregivers reported less stress and brighter moods on days they made room for simple positive activities like gratitude journaling.
Christian psychologists and pastors are confronting a teaching that has kept many believing women silent: the idea that fear, anxiety and depression measure their faith.
Two Connecticut women spent more than a decade searching for answers before an endometriosis diagnosis. New national guidelines now name the racial myths that kept Black women waiting.
A Kaiser Permanente study of 84,206 insured patients finds Black women with fibroids were less likely to receive treatment and reached it about two months later.
Entertainment
Small towns, snowfall and guaranteed happy endings are back with a record 34 premieres. Researchers have even named the kinds of fans who can’t get enough.
Druski’s money-hungry pastor is headed to Netflix in “Collect & Praise.” Gospel voices, including Kirk Franklin and Lecrae, say the comedian found his material in real pulpits.
Faith carried Sherri Shepherd through fear onto “The View.” Now she is Broadway’s first female Genie in “Aladdin,” through Jan. 3, 2027.
Jimmy Jenkins’ modern-day Nativity premieres Oct. 24 at First Baptist Church of Glenarden before opening in select theaters Nov. 13.
Gizelle Bryant, who once served as first lady of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple, stars in and executive produces BET’s new megachurch drama “Church Wives,” premiering Nov. 4.
Ministry
Empowering Everyday Women Ministries is asking supporters to fight hunger in Western New York, Haiti and Sudan through Hungry for Change, its GivingTuesday campaign on Dec. 1.
A mother and three children were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent in Gaza. Israel says 91,000 tents have entered. UN agencies say more than 150,000 are still waiting outside.
After drought wiped out her farm and livestock, a Somali mother walked three days to get care for her severely malnourished daughter. Nearly 2 million children across Somalia are expected to face acute malnutrition.
A mother in Uganda lost her baby girl to illness after treatment for pneumonia and acute malnutrition. Her loss comes as drought and rising food prices leave hundreds of thousands of young children in need of lifesaving nutrition care.
Crowds in Times Square hugged, cried and prayed as Scripture filled the screens overhead on the first night of Global Bible Month, a worldwide invitation to read the Bible every day in November.
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