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Over 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in one night after a campus worship program reportedly attended by hundreds. The baptisms took place in a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn venue, about a half mile from Auburn University’s Neville Arena, the site of a “Unite Auburn” worship event that drew a massive crowd.…

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Ocean Grove, a New Jersey community in Neptune Township, founded by Methodist ministers in 1869 as a “Christian seaside resort,” has been warned by state officials that their longstanding tradition of limiting access to their privately owned beach before noon on Sundays in the summer months to accommodate church services and maintain the character of…

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A legal battle over religious freedom is happening in a small town outside of San Francisco, California, as a small group of Christians fight to re-install a 28-foot cross removed from a plot of land in June. A bench trial started in a U.S. district court to determine whether the city of Albany Hill could…

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New research indicates pastors feel more isolated and lonelier than in recent years. According to the Barna Group, a group of pastors reported they were feeling more left out of their church community, even while supporting that same group of people. In 2022, 65 percent of pastors reported feeling isolated or lonely, and that number…

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In the night, the worn sign looks like a beacon of darkness outside the modest, red-brick Mt. Hebron Baptist Church. It reads, “The tired, poor and huddled masses. Welcome home.” In the small town in the rural northeast corner of Georgia, it’s the kind of message that reassures Teri Massey she’s loved for who she…

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