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According to CBN News, the annual event, which ran from Jan 31-Feb 1, included world leaders, activists and lawmakers from both sides of the political spectrum. “The United States must continue to be a voice for the voiceless who are persecuted for their beliefs,” Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) said during the opening session of the […]
Since 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has followed two groups of men. One is a group of 456 boys from Boston’s most troubled families and roughest neighborhoods. The other consisted of 268 Harvard College students, chosen by a professor of hygiene specifically for their potential to become healthy, well-adjusted adults. The focus […]
In the middle of the 19th century, an archaeologist discovered fragments of multiple clay tablets in what is modern-day Iraq. Translated, the cuneiform writing on these and other tablets subsequently found revealed the “Enuma Elish,” the Babylonian account of the creation of the world. The Enuma Elish starts with formless chaos and water. The waters divide […]
On a weekend with another mass shooting in California and grief and outrage over the video of Tyre Nichols’s horrific death, watching the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs win their playoff games yesterday was a welcome distraction for many. Meanwhile, another story in the news is more culturally significant than it may seem. […]
All generations strongly believe a ‘supernatural’ or ‘spiritual dimension’ has power over the world Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images A number of Americans say they are more open to God now than they were before the coronavirus pandemic. The Barna Group released a report earlier this month based on a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults […]
Planned Parenthood in Peoria, Illinois. | Screenshot: Google Maps The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest of an Illinois man a little over a week after he allegedly set fire to a Planned Parenthood facility, as pro-life groups maintain that federal law enforcement is not acting quick enough to bring justice to those […]
A screenshot from a sermon by rabbi Josh Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. | Screenshot/Vimeo In what might be the latest sign of things to come, a rabbi in New York has become the first Jewish teacher to deliver a sermon written entirely by artificial intelligence. Before teaching on Genesis 44, Rabbi […]
The Lunar New Year has begun. Celebrated by Asian cultures around the world, the holiday marks the first new moon of the year and continues for around fifteen days until the first full moon of the year. As National Geographic reports, the holiday focuses on themes of reunion and hope and is “a time […]
Famed Country singer Dolly Parton recently released a song that she says God gave to her in a dream. She released the song on her 77th birthday. “I got up, I started writing this song over a period of weeks, months,” Parton shared in an Instagram video on Jan. 19th. “I finished it as things […]
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives to watch U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015. | Reuters/Joshua Roberts A sculpture of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg atop a New York […]