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Eric Metaxas is responding with his thoughts after a video surfaced of him and President Trump at a wedding discussing Heaven. In a video of the two men attending a wedding for Metaxas’s friend Mike Wilkerson, the President jokingly referred to Metaxas, who serves on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission, as “the…

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The verbal clash between President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has intensified, with the two trading sharp insults and threats over the weekend—an exchange that has now become an almost daily occurrence. The congresswoman has been a long-time supporter of Trump and has compared him to Christ several times. But she has…

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Cambridge Christian School’s challenge to a Florida rule barring pregame prayers over the loudspeaker at a state football championship, leaving intact lower‑court rulings that classified the PA system as government speech. The decision highlights the delicate balance between the right to free exercise and the Establishment Clause…

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Meta promoted its artificial intelligence’s new “free AI creator tools” on Instagram with a piece of content that appears to show an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kneeling before a demon. A screenshot of the AI-generated video, showcased in an advertisement for the tool, showed what looked like Trump shaking hands with a Satan-like…

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Christian satire site The Babylon Bee is no stranger to poking the bear with some of it scathing jokes about both conservative and liberal figures, but a recent post, about Megyn Kelly appears to have gone too far. In the post, which has since been deleted but is archived, the Bee joked, “After being drawn…

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President Trump’s recent announcement that he was considering the roll-out of a 50-year mortgage had a number of financial analysts talking. Mark Driscoll took on the merits of such a long-term mortgage on his podcast in an episode entitled “Trump 50-Year Mortgage is a GREAT Idea.” Driscoll discussed the proposal with Trump 50-Year Mortgage is…

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Border Czar Tom Homan recently responded to criticism from US Catholic bishops who described current immigration raids as creating “a climate of fear and anxiety.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted 216 to 5 in favor of releasing a “Special Message” “addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the United…

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As young women continue their liberal slide, an increasing number of them want to leave the United States permanently. A recent Gallup poll asked, “Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country?” Overall, 20% of Americans affirmed that…

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The importance of faith amongst Americans has dropped to an all-time low according to a new Gallup poll. According to the poll, 49% of Americans stated that religion was an important part of their daily life. That was nearly a 20-point drop from 66% in 2015. The drop is the largest that Gallup has measured…

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A growing religious freedom battle is unfolding in Quincy, Massachusetts, where two large bronze statues of Catholic saints — commissioned to honor police officers and firefighters — have ignited a heated debate over faith, history, and the place of religious symbolism in public life. The statues of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Florian, each…

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