Grace College Professor Terminated Following Facebook Campaign

Matthew Warner, who had tweeted about gay marriage, is the latest in a string of Christian college faculty who have lost their jobs after being accused of theological misalignment. With glowing performance reviews and above-average student evaluations, by most measures Matthew Warner’s first year as a communications professor at Grace College was a triumph. But he spent most of that first year knowing it could be his last. After four months on the job, Warner was informed by the... Read More

Christians Shouldn’t Run from a ‘Negative World.’ But They Can Depend on It Less.

Aaron Renn outlines individual, institutional, and missional strategies for adapting to a hostile culture. Rarely does an essay cause such a stir as Aaron Renn’s “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism.” Published in First Things in 2022, Renn’s framework for describing Christianity’s fall into cultural disfavor since the 1960s elicited a wide range of responses, from wholehearted agreement to sympathetic skepticism to vociferous disagreement, and seemingly... Read More

‘Flying cars’ may be the next mode of travel for South Florida commuters

It’s hard to fathom for a layman. But from garage to air it took the electric-powered Doroni Aerospace H1-X, a.k.a. “flying car,” just minutes to offer spectacular views of Biscayne Bay, PortMiami, Miami Beach and downtown Miami several hundred feet below. Looming not far off to the northwest: the Seminole Hard Rock’s massive Guitar Hotel in Hollywood. Suddenly, it was easy to decide where to conclude this brief experiential trip. With a few nudges of a joystick, the two-seat eVTOL... Read More

‘I Knew I Would Pay a Price for My Faith’: China Releases Missionary After Seven Years

John Sanqiang Cao shares how hand-copied Bible verses, prayers, and a mother’s love buoyed him during his imprisonment. When pastor John Sanqiang Cao, 64, crossed the border back into China from Myanmar’s Wa State on March 5, 2017, Chinese officials were waiting to arrest him. For years, he had traveled across the porous border from Yunnan Province to the impoverished Wa State, where he founded more than 20 schools, established drug rehabilitation centers, and provided medicine,... Read More

In restaurant news: Duffy’s closes popular location; Chimney House owners open new eatery

Stay up to date with South Florida dining news: Sign up for our twice-weekly Eat Beat newsletter, filled with restaurant news, guides and more. Go to SunSentinel.com/newsletters to sign up. Join our “Let’s Eat, South Florida” Facebook group. NOW OPEN OR OPENING Dick’s Last Resort17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 754-223-3263; dickslastresort.com/locations/ft-lauderdale  This national chain opened up a SoFlo location in Fort Lauderdale’s Beach Place mall on... Read More

Reality Is Now a Diss Track

Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rivalry reveals our craving for controversy—and what’s lost when community is based on shared hatred, not love. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Not since Tupac died have we seen the country quite as fixated on a feud between rappers. Over the past several weeks, artists Drake and Kendrick Lamar kept the news cycle abuzz with their dueling diss tracks—ridiculing each other in trivial matters of height... Read More

Mermaids, creator of underwater burlesque show fired from Wreck Bar, they say

The underwater mermaid shows at Wreck Bar that began nearly two decades ago would not have happened if it weren’t for Marina Anderson pitching the idea and bringing it to life. Anderson started the mermaid shows at the Wreck Bar in Fort Lauderdale in the early 2000s, and it eventually grew from her alone swimming to her training others and the performances developed over the years, including the addition of their popular, one-of-a-kind underwater mermaid and mermen burlesque shows. Now she... Read More