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WNBA star Brittney Griner has returned home after spending nearly 10 months in a Russian prison following her arrest for bringing vape cartridges containing hashish oil through a Moscow airport. Griner was freed from a Russian penal colony earlier this month in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Griner’s return to the U.S. sparked emotional reactions from the…

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The grandfather of a little girl who was abducted and murdered has published a heartbreaking Facebook post offering forgiveness to the purported perpetrator. “A friend just asked me the other day if I believe God speaks to people. I happen to know He does, as He is speaking to me now,” Mark Strand wrote. “This flesh,…

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There have been growing indications that evangelicals may be ready to look for someone new after Donald Trump’s announcement that he will run again for President in the 2024 election. Evangelicals were particularly pivotal in Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hilary Clinton, with 58% of protestants voting for Trump over Hilary’s 39%. In the 2020 election, 59% of…

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A sermon preached by a junior research fellow at Trinity College in Cambridge over a week ago has brought cries of heresy against the fellow, Joshua Heath. Heath preached during his Evensong sermon that historical, non-erotic depictions of Christ’s penis “urge a welcoming rather than hostile response toward the raised voices of trans people.” He added,…

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Radio host Howard Stern called out Oprah Winfrey for flaunting her wealth on social media. During a recent edition of The Howard Stern Show, the SiriusXM host discussed seeing Winfrey’s Instagram account over the holiday weekend and expressed shock at some of the extravagant images Winfrey posts to the platform. “Oprah’s not embarrassed by her wealth at all,” Stern began.…

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Addison Bethea’s world was turned upside down in late June 2022 when she was bitten by a shark while searching for scallops near Keaton Beach, Florida. At the time, Addison was a cheerleader and a tennis player. At 17, she was also relatively young to experience an accident and crisis of this magnitude. A native…

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Lydia Franklin says her church leaders don’t talk much about politics. However, they talk about Jesus, His commands to love your neighbors, and the importance of Christians helping others. So when the 18-year-old went to the polls for the first time this election, she took those values into the voting booth. Franklin, who lives in…

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A high school in Pasco County, Florida, is dealing with controversy after a Jewish employee of the school filed a complaint against the public display of a Bible verse on a teacher’s paid parking spot. Per WFLA-TV, Marina Gentilesco, an employee of Pasco County Schools, walks by the parking spot daily with Philippians 4:13 written on it. Despite…

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A black pastor of a multiethnic church recently shared how he identifies more with the cross than with the color of his skin and believes a Christian’s identity should be rooted in Jesus, not race. “A lot of people, they look at themselves as a black person or a white person or a Hispanic person,”…

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Former Vice President Mike Pence says in a new book that shortly after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, he told then-President Donald Trump that he would be praying for him. The conversation took place eight days after protesters attacked the capitol during the certification of the electoral votes, some of them chanting, “hang Mike Pence.”…
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