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Saved By Grace Band Announces New Song “Jesus Loves America” Honoring America’s 250th Anniversary
Saved By Grace Band (SBG) has released its new single “Jesus Loves America,” a faith-inspired song written by Dan Olson, a “singer-songwriter and lead vocalist,” was released on September 11, 2026, through Vere Music Group via ADA/Warner Bros. Distribution. Produced by Michael Shreve and engineered by Zac Hatch of Zion Recordings in Erie, Pennsylvania, the single combines SBG’s signature faith-based songwriting with a message centered on gratitude, perseverance and spiritual encouragement.
The Secular Liturgy of ‘Goodnight Moon’
September 3, 2025, marks the 78th anniversary of the publication of Goodnight Moon, one of the best-selling picture books of all time (more than 50 million copies sold). Author Margaret Wise Brown (1910–52), who wrote more than 100 picture books, never saw the book’s massive success.
How the Black Intellectual Tradition Promotes Dignity in Classical Education
Christianity is the most culturally and ethnically diverse belief system in the world, as our God is building a church for the praise of his glory from “every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages” (Rev. 7:9–10). But in North America, millions of children go to schools where they may be encouraged to make secondary identities—whether political, cultural, racial, or sexual—more essential than their primary identity as God’s image-bearers.
‘The Black Intellectual Tradition’ by Parham and Prather
In Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, “Lincoln’s Heaven” is the name of a black family farm that symbolizes the unrealized hope of the Reconstruction era before Jim Crow laws stripped land and rights away from the black community. For the novel’s protagonist, Milkman, and his friends, Lincoln’s Heaven was a farm that colored their lives like a paintbrush and spoke to them like a sermon. “You see?” the farm said to them. “See? See what you can do? . . .
Out of the NFL, Tebow Builds His Lasting Legacy
The incredible fourth quarter finale to this year’s Super Bowl, complete with a bobbling catch and unlikely interception, made me wonder what’s become of a Christian brother with a knack for fourth quarter heroics: Tim Tebow. Two years removed from NFL, the 27-year-old Tebow now serves as a commentator for the SEC Network and ESPN. He continues to work out in hopes of receiving that long-awaited call from a NFL team.
The Gospel Near the Top of the World
It’s Monday morning (a little more than a week ago) and 43 people are locked inside a gate that surrounds and protects SARA Church and New Missionary Bible School in Kathmandu, Nepal—just 100 miles from Mount Everest. Surrounded by towering mountain peaks, we are in the bowl of the Kathmandu Valley, only 4,600 feet above sea level. Heaven is coming near.
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