Plus: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Church Attendance Habits
April 8 2023
Good Friday greetings from Washington, where the FBI wields a glossary to help agents identify violent extremists online. Fred Lucas reports. With Easter Sunday in view, our Katrina Trinko ponders Americans’ growing absence from the pews. On a bonus edition of the podcast, meet a crowdfunded Christian movie that put major contenders on the ropes. Plus: how the U.S. can counter China; churches come under escalating attack; CBS News flaunts its pro-Democrat bias; and a disturbing addiction to mobile devices. On this date in 1970, American icon John Wayne wins his first and only Academy Award for acting when he claims the Oscar for playing dissolute U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Western “True Grit.”Morning Bell returns Monday. Have a blessed Easter.
The FBI uses a “glossary of terms” to look for online that could indicate someone is involved with “violent extremism,” according to newly obtained documents.
The Nashville shooting at a church-run school constitutes 2023’s deadliest act of violence so far against churches as such attacks nearly tripled in the first three months of the year, a new report finds.
The Chinese Communist Party has made it clear that it intends to overtake the United States and restructure the global order in its image. Here’s how the U.S. can fight back.
Americans check their phones an average of 344 times per day, or about once every four minutes. When you factor in sleep time, it’s more like at least once every three minutes.
A Christian film about Abraham sacrificing Isaac, which ties in to the story of Jesus, becomes a box office hit just before Easter—even though Hollywood rejected it.