by Steve Beard | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard The first of several pivotal scenes in the film Selma occurs when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes a late night phone call to gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. The undeniable weight of what lay ahead for King and the civil rights movement was...
by Steve Beard | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard On Wednesday, February 25, members of the band U2 gathered at St. Mary’s Church outside of Dublin in order to observe the passing of the Rev. Jack Heaslip, the band’s long time friend and “traveling pastor.” The 71-year-old Anglican priest passed away...
by Steve Beard | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard “They were stoned, they were sawn in two; they were put to death with the sword. They [were] … destitute, afflicted, ill-treated – the world was not worthy of them.” Hebrews 11:37 Added to the ever increasing list of demonic atrocities conducted by ISIS...
by Steve Beard | Dec 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard “Every dime I get, no matter what it is, I give 10 percent to the church,” rapper and actor LL Cool J recently said. The interviewer from Hot 97, a hip hop radio station in New York City, said that she had first heard LL Cool J (born James Todd Smith)...
by Steve Beard | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Steve Beard Back in 2002, MTV announced that the biggest hit in its history was a program called “The Osbournes.” The half-hour show — complete with constant bleeping from excessive foul language — was a curiously fascinating docu-comedy starring the members of...
