By Melissa Wuske Faith-Changing Movie Role Actress Jennifer Garner recently played Christy Beam in the real-life story of the Beam family, Miracles from Heaven. The movie shows how the family coped with daughter Anna’s pseudo-obstruction motility disorder, which requires feeding tubes for sustenance, and how Anna was miraculously cured after a near-death accident. Portraying this […]
In The World—May 15, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Reducing Risk of Dementia A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that higher levels of education, along with better cardiovascular health contribute to a decline in new dementia cases. The study followed families who were part of the Framingham Heart Study beginning in 1942. Researchers found that the […]
In The World—May 8, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Plumbers Help Flint More than 300 union plumbers from across Michigan went to Flint to install water filters free of charge because of the mounting water crisis that has left the city’s residents with lead-poisoned tap water. Harold Harrington, a union leader in Flint, said, “We did not cause this American tragedy […]
In The World—May 1, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Islamic State Murders Declared Genocide The parliament of the European Union voted to designate the continued killing of Christians in the Middle East by the Islamic State as genocide. The designation opens the door for increased international response through the United Nations and urges individual countries to take serious action to end […]
In The World—April 24, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Bible-Minded in America An annual study by American Bible Society (ABS) and Barna Group sought to determine the most “Bible-minded” cities in the United States. The study defined Bible-minded people as those “who report reading the Bible in a typical week and who strongly assert the Bible is accurate in the principles […]