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Your conversation might take a strange turn when "Jesus" says something that’s just not true or makes up a Bible verse or ...

His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors. 2 Chronicles 21:19 ...

Dialogue with the Christian community is critical again. A leading Haredi rabbi recently advised a colleague of mine to ...

First Congregational Church of Sunderland, 91 S. Main St., Serendipity Shop is open on Saturdays, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with items for sale at bargain prices. Weekly Sunday church service is ...

God’s love is the original. We must relinquish the counterfeit for the original. The older must surrender to the younger.

Perpetua was a middle- or upper-class Roman woman, living in Carthage, who was martyred in the year 203. She is perhaps the ...

Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City is exactly that kind of place, where the humble baked bean has been elevated to an art form ...

The birthday of the late, very public and credible Christian believer Sir Harry Secombe has just passed. And we are fast approaching the 25th anniversary of his death. He of “The Goons” fame is also ...

Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin's new "Biblio Diet" promotes using ancient biblical foods like red meat, olive oil and honey to ...