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A site that has revealed multiple ancient mosaics featuring biblical stories is unveiling yet another biblical scene. Jodi Magness, professor of early Judaism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, began excavating an ancient synagogue in the Jewish village of Huqoq in 2011. The village of Huqoq is located in lower Galilee, and the…

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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently revealed the discovery of a rare 2,000-year-old silver half-shekel minted by Jewish rebels during Roman rule. The coin dates to around 66/67 AD, during the time that the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in Jerusalem. The event was foretold by Jesus in Mark 13:1-2. The coin was discovered…

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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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A Church of England faith leader is receiving backlash for tattoos on her arms after she was chosen as the next cantor and head of worship at a prominent cathedral. Rev. Wendy Dalrymple is a priest and soon-to-be precentor and residentiary canon designate at Canterbury Cathedral in England. After the cathedral tweeted the announcement with…

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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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Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson recently shared that he’s reading through the Bible, and it’s opened his eyes about God’s sovereignty, man’s sinfulness, and humanity’s role in the world. The former Fox News commentator made the remarks at the 2023 Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of conservative leaders in Des Moines, Iowa. Carlson said he started reading…

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A leader in the Church of England (CoE) has taken aim at the Lord’s Prayer, indicating it is “problematic” and “oppressively patriarchal.” Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, was speaking at the CoE’s General Synod and discussed the passage, which is found in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4. “For if this God to whom we pray…

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“One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Lenz recently shared that “there’s a lot to tell” after being in a cult for 10 years. Lenz, who played Haley James on the drama series, told her former co-stars Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton Morgan on their “Drama Queens” podcast, “I was in a cult for 10 years.…

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A Christian ministry recently released a video showing what genuine praise and worship looks like inside a maximum-security prison, with inmates happily raising their hands to Christ and praying. The heartfelt scenes were shared by God Behind Bars, an organization that connects with churches to help bring the gospel to incarcerated people across the United…

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Dr. Steven Collins, archaeologist and Dean of the College of Archaeology at Trinity Southwest University, recently appeared on “The Rosenberg Report” to discuss his decades-long uncovering of what he believes to be the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Collins is not the first archaeologist to take on such an endeavor. In 1924, archaeologist William…

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