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In contemporary Christian circles, the term “salvation” is often used to denote the moment when an individual commits to following Christ. Preachers and missionaries frequently highlight the number of conversions with phrases like, “We had 50 people saved last weekend.” However, this perspective can obscure a critical truth: salvation is not a singular event but…

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A group of individuals held a ceremony to ordain a transgender individual, Loan Rocher, and biological women into the Catholic church in defiance of the church’s ban against women and LGBTQ+ individuals from positions of leadership. The group met for the service on the Tiber River in Rome, within the very shadow of the Vatican.…

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A joint group of researchers has unveiled the discovery of what could be one of the world’s earliest Christian churches. A group of Armenian and German researchers from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster in Germany revealed finding a previously unknown Christian church in the city of Artaxata, near…

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Indiana Jones may have been right as archaeologists uncovered 12 skeletal remains and a “Holy Grail” chalice in Petra, Jordan. The discovery was made in underground chambers in the Khaznah, which means, “The Treasury,” a site that was filmed in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” where the titular adventurer goes in search of the…

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John Lennox- mathematician, apologist, and President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA)- recently sent out an email that called out prominent atheist Richard Dawkins’s views on suffering. He referenced Dawkins’s book, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. In his book, Dawkins looks at suffering as random chance, with no rhyme…

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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is facing backlash after a video surfaced of her with TikTok content creator Liz Plank allegedly mocking communion. In the video, Plank is kneeling, resembling the pious position Catholics adopt when accepting communion. Whitmer is then seen feeding the chip to Plank in a fashion similar to a Catholic priest. According…

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A new Italian study on the Shroud of Turin has revealed that the dark stains on the shroud, attributed to being blood stains from the body of Christ, have a pattern consistent with the types of injuries Jesus sustained as described in the Bible. Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical and thermal measurements at the…

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Pastor Keion Henderson, founder of The Lighthouse Church & Ministries in Houston, Texas, has come under fire following the resurfacing of a controversial clip from one of his 2023 sermons. In it, he suggested that congregants would not receive blessings or wealth from God by giving to the poor. Instead, he emphasized that blessings would…

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Dove Award-winning artist KB is urging the church to embrace Christian hip-hop as a powerful tool for spreading the gospel, particularly among Generation Z, a demographic that often feels distant from traditional church settings. As one of the leading voices in Christian hip-hop, KB sees the genre as uniquely positioned to communicate the message of…

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Bernie and Dee Ann Tackitt of Lubbock, Texas had always been churchgoers. But within the last few years after being baptized, the couple has really been on fire for the Lord, turning their Lubbock home into a sanctuary and prayer retreat for the people in their neighborhood and beyond. Their home features a Bible bench…

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