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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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