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With the growing popularity of online sermons, social media influencers and podcast preachers, discerning sound doctrine from ...

There is a back-and-forth happening right now between a religious organization and a public school district in our area.The ...

By the time you read this article, July 4th is upon us. The day is a great reminder of our freedoms that we enjoy in this nation. For that, we ...

Good therapy is something I believe is important and valuable, and even a biblical concept But modern therapy has been ...

Trump’s political machine is gunning for this Kentucky congressman. But the state’s most contrarian district may not play ...

Peter is then told to put on his cloak. The robe in Scripture is often equated with righteousness. Thus the instruction of ...

The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

St. Paul even encourages the Colossians to read this epistle, but still it is not in the Bible. Jesus in the Gospel never attempts to list the "official" Books of the Old Testament (OT).

The Mass schedule at St. Charles Catholic Church, 31 Cherry Hill St., is as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at ...

Foreign policy determined by bad theology is a terrible idea. A few weeks ago, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) invoked biblical support (where it was in the Bible, he wasn’t ...

A young boy went into the drug store along the town square where he lived and asked the pharmacist if he could make a phone ...