South Korea -- Thousands of South Korean Christians held a mass devotional service on Saturday, April 3, to pray for national unification and a fair election ahead of the April 15 National Assembly election. Last month, the S. Korean National Assembly impeached the nation’s president for the first time in history. President Roh Moo-Hyun was impeached on charges of election law violation and incompetence. He is currently waiting for the South Korean supreme court's final decision. Forty eight percent of the estimated 48 million South Koreans are Christians.
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Bible scholar suggests ‘Mark of the Beast’ may not be 666 after all
Canadian Bible scholar Wes Huff is encouraging Christians to reexamine a widely held assumption about Revelation 13:18—that the number of the beast is definitively 666. According to Huff, some of the earliest and most respected manuscripts suggest a different number altogether: 616.
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“Sinners”: Gospel distorted by ethnicity and regionalism
In the latest installment of his Bricolage in the Movie series, Dr. Ukjoo Park offers a cultural-theological reading of Sinners, a supernatural drama directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in the racially segregated 1930s Mississippi Delta, the film follows two Black brothers who operate a juke joint while battling vampires—and racism.
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