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The oldest roof tiles ever have been discovered in the Givati Parking Lot excavation in the City of David. The six ancient ceramic roof tiles have been dated to the second century BC and are significant because of their Hellenistic or Greek style, which would not become a prominent feature in Israeli architecture until nearly…

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Florida’s second largest school district voted unanimously on Wednesday to keep the Bible in its school libraries after an atheist challenged the Bible as being “too sensitive or controversial for a typical classroom setting.” The vote was made by the 9-member panel of the Broward County School District Superintendent Review Committee, formed last year as…

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The atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently set it sights on a Kansas teacher after complaints that the teacher was having students perform Christian worship music. The complaint came from a parent whose student attends Challenger Intermediate School in the Goddard Unified School District in Goddard, Kansas. In its letter to the district, the…

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Upstate Church in South Carolina, which has six sites and 7,000 members in the Simpsonville area, is celebrating a momentous day after baptizing 141 people in a single day on December 3rd. The baptism service was planned in advance, with 86 originally signing up to be baptized. By the end of the service, 55 other…

Author and pastor John Burke is detailing his examinations of over 1,000 near-death experiences in his new book, Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Revelation, and the Love You’ve Always Wanted. Burke was formerly an agnostic who was intrigued by stories of near-death experiences. “So, hearing these experiences as an engineer got me…

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