Padre Pio Shelter
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Padre Pio Foundation of America
The following story is from a friend who responded to our request to send us your Angel stories. We thank her for allowing us to share this beautiful story with you. “The White Feather I was reading how Padre Pio believed people could send their guardian angels to others to help them. And how he …
How the Gospel Frees Us From the American Dream
I think most of us grew up with a dream—a dream to become someone others admire, to do something incredible and to change our broken world.<br>But, sometimes we grow up, and our lives don't look exactly like they were "supposed" to look. We're sitting in a job that doesn't seem meaningful, feeling lo
What Is the Gospel? (Foundation in Genesis)
Understanding the foundational aspects of the gospel in Genesis is a vital key to unlock a powerful method of evangelism to reach the world for Christ.
How to Tell Your Family That You Are An Atheist
With more Americans identifying as not religious, holiday conversations around faith and family can be fraught
Is the Bible Foundational to Christianity? Engaging with Andy Stanley
One of the most profound challenges for Christians as we live in an ever-more-hostile world is how to properly defend the faith against the incessant attacks against it. And these attacks have tak…
Foundation and Philanthropy Ideas for Increasing Rural Giving
Grantmakers explore philanthropy ideas on why colleagues aren’t giving in rural America and strategies for changing this dynamic.
Why Your Pastor's Wife Has Trust Issues
What's Wrong with America?
Tonight we're going to be considering a subject that I think is on all of our hearts and I want, as I always would want to do, to take you to the Word of God and not just give you some kind of politi...
Are Americans Really Becoming Less Religious?
The need to find meaning drives spiritual interests even among nonbelievers
Pursuing Happiness: Whose American Revolution?
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the words that established an independent United States. It is these values that many continue to point to as essential to the nature of the countr…
Is American Christianity Becoming a Workout Cult?
Plenty has been written about the cult of CrossFit—the widely popular, DIY workout craze. But maybe CrossFit isn’t a cult at all. Maybe it’s a new religion.
What Is a Sacred America?
America is a roaring engine for evolution, which is evident in everything from our go-go startup culture to exhilarating breakthroughs in entertainment. It is that spirit of innovation, adventure, and possibility that needs to inform this exploration of what happens when “sacred” and “America” come together.
Where Americans Find Meaning in Life
Family is the most common source of meaning in America, but economic, religious and political divides shape where people find meaning in other aspects of life.
How I found meaning beyond success
MIT professor, Rosalind Picard, shares the foundation for her hope and meaning, and how personal success has paled in comparison with her relationship with God.
How Divorce Is Eroding American Religion
Research shows that children of divorce are far more likely to identify as nonreligious than people whose parents stayed married while they were growing up.
How the Internet is Killing American Christianity
“How the Internet is Killing American Christianity” The question is valid, “How much more do we have to take from the church until we have had enough?” The odd part of this question is that many of those asking this are Christians. It seems they’re tired of distorted images defining who and what they are, and deciding how the …
Religious Americans Give More, New Study Finds
Of Americans who claim a religious affiliation, 65 percent give to charity, while only 56 percent of others do.
Who is God? Americans divided as ever over a definition.
A new Pew Research study shows how widely varied belief in what God, or a higher power, actually is.
Are Americans who attend neighborhood churches better off?
A new research approach finds that doubts about God are even more prevalent than previous surveys suggest — a pattern that is evident among . . .
Why fewer Americans are attending religious services
Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States, but not necessarily because they don’t believe.
Finding Home as a Homeless, Transgender Youth
Be at home in your own skin -- then it won't matter where you go<br>This is a bit of wisdom that I've picked up in my times of uncertainty, from the first time I was kicked out to the singular moment when I truly felt as if I had no home. Despite the tumultuous living situation and stunted employment opportunities after I came out as transgender, and no matter that it made all those things all the more difficult, I have never…
