UPDATE II: Following her performance of "Love on Top," Beyonce told the crowd, “I want you to feel the love that’s growing inside me.” She then unbuttoned her coat and rubbed her belly.
The usually private singer chooses a bold way to announce her ...
Posted Monday, August 29th 2011 at 1:24PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Celebrities shouldn't affect our personal faith in love...right? When In Touch Weekly recently reported that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith had allegedly separated, the collective moans could be heard all across Black America ...
Posted Monday, August 29th 2011 at 1:06PM
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The usually private singer chooses a bold way to announce her pregnancy at the end of a song. Watch Jay-Z react
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Posted Monday, August 29th 2011 at 11:53AM
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When Shelli was a new scrub nurse with only six months experience, she failed to anticipate that the surgeon would need a particular scalpel. Immediately, her preceptor deftly slapped the correct blade into the impatient surgeon’s outstretched hand ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:51PM
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Synopsis: Should female circumcision be seen as female purification or female mutilation? This question kept roaming through my mind after seeing a film titled Moolaade.
Moolaade is one of the international films featured during the African film ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:31PM
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Dictionaries usually define conviction as a fixed or strong belief. Conviction is really much more than that. Your convictions include your values, commitments and motivations. I like the definition of conviction I once heard from the great Bible tea ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:21PM
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Anti-immigrant activists are nothing if not predictable. They scream “amnesty” whenever any administration or congress tries to inject a little justice and humanity into our broken immigration system. So, naturally, the anti-immigrant crowd has been ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:13PM
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My colleague Stuart Shepard was in Walmart® last weekend shopping for back-to-school supplies for his son when he encountered some rather provocatively Christian notebooks and folders. One of them read: "God Recycles. He made you out of dust." Anothe ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:05PM
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When all God's Children stand for injustices anywhere, there will be justice everywhere.
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Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 12:32PM
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STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — When Ntsiki Biyela won a winemaking scholarship in 1998, she was certainly a curious choice. She had grown up in the undulating hills of Zululand, living in a small village of huts and shacks. People tended their patches ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 11:34AM
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While You Were Out:
Apple’s Years With and Without Steve Jobs--- Sam Grobart reviews Steven P. Jobs’s time at Apple, and what effect his departures have had on the company and its products.
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•Steve Jobs reshaped industries
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Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 10:58AM
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Have you ever stood and stared at the ocean? It has a way of just lifting your spirit and freeing your soul. If I ever feel like my world has ended, nothing revives me more than spending some time losing myself in my Father's creation.
Often life ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 10:49AM
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Developing the fruit of the Spirit should be one of the primary goals of every Christian who desires to walk in God’s power. Contrary to traditional teaching, however, the fruit of the Spirit is love. In the same way that an apple is composed of seed ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 10:35AM
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I rushed from the exam room to the nurses' station. Female laughter bubbled up from a semicircle of chairs that surrounded a newcomer. The office manager called me over.
"Jan," she said, "meet Greg. He'll be updating our computer system over the ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 7:07PM
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It is with disappointment that we announce that just a short time ago, we received word that, in light of potential safety concerns posed by Hurricane Irene, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial March & Rally and dedication service scheduled ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 6:47PM
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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- One employee at Weaver Funeral Home in Bristol, Tennessee got the surprise of a lifetime on Tuesday morning. According to the Bristol Police Department, two homeless men broke the lock to the door of their warehouse and snuggled up ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 12:00PM
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The dog of fallen Navy SEAL Officer Jon Tumilson refused to leave his owner's casket at the officer's funeral earlier this week, Animal Planet reported. Tumilson's cousin Lisa Pembleton captured the loyal pup, Hawkeye, resting alongside Tumilson's ca ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 11:39AM
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In past years, I've honored this day by taking part in a march, or giving a speech, or writing an essay. But this year I'm asking myself, "Equal to whom? Equal to what?" I'm tired of comparing myself to what someone else has and what someone else is ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:36AM
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My husband, Brad, met Norman when Brad spoke at an interfaith Easter service. Norman approached him and asked if he could talk. In a short time, Brad learned that Norman had been a practicing homosexual all his life and was now suffering from AIDS. I ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:01AM
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Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- At least 18 people were killed in a bombing at a U.N. building in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, a police spokesman said Friday. Police commissioner Michael Zuokumo told reporters eight people had been injured. Yushau Shuaib, ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 9:50AM
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One thing I’ve learned is that you cannot out dream God. When God brings a dream to pass that He’s placed in your heart, it’s going to be greater than you ever imagined. It’s going to be bigger, better and more rewarding. You could say: God’s going t ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 2:42PM
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Two of the men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of coercing them into sexual relationships gave an extensive interview to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News.
Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande were among four young men who accu ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 2:07PM
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If you were hiding under your sheets or taking cover in your basement you might've missed the show above the skies of the GTA. A massive storm brought plenty of rain and lightning.
Environment Canada also issued tornado warnings for large parts of ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 1:13PM
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