Josh Benner

Category: News

  • Campus pastor fired for suggesting his campus leave Harvest Bible Chapel

    Note: I’ve decided to write about this story again because it’s newsworthy within American Christendom. One of the largest and most influential churches in the country is in some very turbulent waters and, in my humble opinion, have made two major mistakes in less than a week.  Last week, it was announced that James MacDonald, founding pastor…

  • Our sense of justice and the outrage over the botched Saints call

    An egregious no-call in the Saints-Rams, NFC Championship game yesterday. Missed calls happen. But I don’t know if I can think of ever seeing a more consequential no-call that had a bigger impact on a game than the missed pass interference with 1:46 left to go in the game.

  • Chicago Megachurch pastor takes indefinite sabbatical

    Harvest Bbile Chapel is a non-denominational megachurch with 12,000 members in weekly attendance. Located in the Chicago suburbs, Harvest has seven campuses in Illinois and one campus in Naples, Florida. James MacDonald founded Harvest in 1988 and has been the senior pastor of the church for over 30 years. He also has a popular radio…

  • Incredible story: 13 year-old Jayme Closs escapes abductor, finds help 3 months after parents murdered

    I’ve read autobiographies of people who have survived the Holocaust and escaped form North Korea. They’re harrowing stories. They’re heartbreaking stories. But in another sense, they’re inspiring stories, because in them, you see the triumph of the human spirit. They’re inspiring because you see what people are capable of and what true toughness and grit…

  • Purdue super fan Tyler Trent passes away

    We don’t control the cards we’re dealt. All we can do is play what we have. Tyler Trent passed away on Tuesday. The Purdue student had battled a rare form of bone cancer. He had become a sensation in college football and Big Ten circles as being someone the Purdue football team rallied around this…