Gospel performer Mandisa defines herself not by the world's standards, but God's, and said she has finally discovered what freedom means. Her sophomore album "Freedom", available on March 24, is a testimony to her struggles with food and deliverance from her addiction.
At 4 on a Sunday afternoon, the nightclub is filled with twentysomethings. But they haven't come to drink, or to watch the flat screen TV. The draw is Revolution Ministries, a church service led by Jay Bakker, son of the fallen late-80s televangelists Tammy-Faye and Jim Bakker of The PTL Club fame. 
Carlos Williams swore he'd never return his children to Washington, the city where drug deals, fights and drunks outside his father's apartment used to keep him and his brothers awake at night. 
When a gunman attacked parishioners at a Clifton church last month, word of the shootings spread quickly among two culturally divergent communities that share a strong but little known bond: South Indians and Middle Easterners, who both are members of the Syriac Orthodox tradition. 
North Korean officials are infuriated by leaflets that have been floated over the communist nation's secured borders and dropped from plastic bags attached to gas-filled balloons, and one organization behind the effort says there's good reason the atheists in power are upset - the pamphlets are carrying a Gospel message directly to the people. 
The winning lottery number in Illinois was 666, which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast. On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. 
