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Chris Dowling grew up in Dallas, Texas. As soon as he turned 18 years old, he along with his best friend, moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in writing and acting.

"As soon as I got out there, I knew I wanted to write more than acting, but I did both," said Dowling.

Chris Dowling is now a multi-talented writer, director and producer who has optioned multiple properties that span both genre and medium. He wrote and directed his first feature in 2009, the award-winning noir comedy Rocky Slyde.

A video has gone viral of a man playing his piano in the midst of devastation following deadly tornadoes in the U.S. over the weekend.

Jordan Baize of Bremen, Ky. sits at his piano playing in a room without a roof and rubble littered around him.

A Manitoba musician is disappointed to cancel his 12-concert Christmas tour in Germany.

Danny Plett says the country is seeing a drastic increase in COVID-19 cases and that’s what stopped his shows from going forward as planned.

“We got to the place where we just had to pull the plug and say we can’t do it,” Plett says. The Steinbach singer is a well-beloved performer not only here in Canada but in Germany.

He adds it was a heartbreaking decision but they feel it was the right decision.

The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has recently adopted a resolution based on the report by the Equality and Non-Discrimination, rapporteur Frank Heinrich, on the gender aspects and human rights implications of pornography.

Women in the Bible are quite often forgotten about, but Marina Hofman is shining a spotlight on them in her new book, Women in the Bible: Small Group Bible Study.

Marina has a powerful story of God rescuing her life after a serious car crash and delivering her from anxiety. She says it's the women in the Bible that helped her overcome the challenges she faced following that incident.

A well-known Canadian pastor is on leave from his Ontario church after sexual misconduct allegations were brought forward against him.

In a statement sent to media on Thursday, the chair of the Overseers Board at The Meeting House, Maggie John, says that the allegations were made known to the board at the end of November.

"In the week of November 29th, the Overseers Board was made aware of allegations of sexual misconduct by Bruxy Cavey, Teaching Pastor at The Meeting House," John says.

Timothy Keller is sharing his comfort and joy this Christmas season while battling cancer. 

"I have Stage IV pancreatic cancer," Keller tweeted on Friday. "But it is endlessly comforting to have a God who is both infinitely more wise and more loving than I am. He has plenty of good reasons for everything He does and allows that I cannot know, and therein is my hope and strength."

The well-known Christian speaker and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City announced his cancer diagnosis in early June 2020. 

Substance abuse is a huge problem everywhere In the world.  It can especially be an issue in the restaurant industry.

Steve Palmer lived with a drinking and cocaine problem and turned his life around. He is now a restaurateur and the author of Say Grace: How the Restaurant Business Saved My Life.

Nearly two decades ago, Palmer’s addiction to alcohol and cocaine became so consuming that the owner of the restaurant where he worked sat him down and gave him a stark choice: Go into rehab or clean out your office.

A fire hall in Alberta is the first to provide another option for surrendering children in Canada, and firefighters there hope it spreads across the country.

The Strathmore Fire Department and the Strathmore Emergency Service Members Association have worked together to bring a lifesaving project to Canada, and now Strathmore, Alta. will be the first fire hall in Canada to use it.  

Breaking the cycle of family dysfunction is not easy to do.

For Lucille Williams, a national speaker who has ministered to couples and families for more than 25 years and author of The Impossible Kid: Parenting a Strong-Willed Child with Love and Grace, she struggled with an eating disorder that she did not want to pass on to her daughter. 

"I had to get help in my early 20's to break the cycle. I had bulimia," said Williams. "Food in my family was like an event."