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Indiana Jones may have been right as archaeologists uncovered 12 skeletal remains and a “Holy Grail” chalice in Petra, Jordan. The discovery was made in underground chambers in the Khaznah, which means, “The Treasury,” a site that was filmed in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” where the titular adventurer goes in search of the…

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John Lennox- mathematician, apologist, and President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA)- recently sent out an email that called out prominent atheist Richard Dawkins’s views on suffering. He referenced Dawkins’s book, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. In his book, Dawkins looks at suffering as random chance, with no rhyme…

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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is facing backlash after a video surfaced of her with TikTok content creator Liz Plank allegedly mocking communion. In the video, Plank is kneeling, resembling the pious position Catholics adopt when accepting communion. Whitmer is then seen feeding the chip to Plank in a fashion similar to a Catholic priest. According…

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A new Italian study on the Shroud of Turin has revealed that the dark stains on the shroud, attributed to being blood stains from the body of Christ, have a pattern consistent with the types of injuries Jesus sustained as described in the Bible. Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical and thermal measurements at the…

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Pastor Keion Henderson, founder of The Lighthouse Church & Ministries in Houston, Texas, has come under fire following the resurfacing of a controversial clip from one of his 2023 sermons. In it, he suggested that congregants would not receive blessings or wealth from God by giving to the poor. Instead, he emphasized that blessings would…

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Dove Award-winning artist KB is urging the church to embrace Christian hip-hop as a powerful tool for spreading the gospel, particularly among Generation Z, a demographic that often feels distant from traditional church settings. As one of the leading voices in Christian hip-hop, KB sees the genre as uniquely positioned to communicate the message of…

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Bernie and Dee Ann Tackitt of Lubbock, Texas had always been churchgoers. But within the last few years after being baptized, the couple has really been on fire for the Lord, turning their Lubbock home into a sanctuary and prayer retreat for the people in their neighborhood and beyond. Their home features a Bible bench…

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Historically black churches are beginning to sound the alarm on the growing trend of young people either leaving the church or not even entering its doors. Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the AME church, is one of the churches feeling the shift, according to a New York Times report.…

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Israel has sent over the Megiddo Mosaic to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC to be on display for nine months. The Mosaic was found in one of the oldest-known Christian prayer halls in the area, after it was discovered in 2005 underneath a maximum-security prison that had been built over the site…

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Rev. Canon Vaughan Roberts spoke at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, South Korea and encouraged his audience to push back against the tenets of the sexual revolution and rather focus on a “Christ Revolution.” Roberts, who is from Oxford, reflected on how the once “countercultural” messaging of the sexual revolution has become…

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