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Lydia Franklin says her church leaders don’t talk much about politics. However, they talk about Jesus, His commands to love your neighbors, and the importance of Christians helping others. So when the 18-year-old went to the polls for the first time this election, she took those values into the voting booth. Franklin, who lives in…

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A high school in Pasco County, Florida, is dealing with controversy after a Jewish employee of the school filed a complaint against the public display of a Bible verse on a teacher’s paid parking spot. Per WFLA-TV, Marina Gentilesco, an employee of Pasco County Schools, walks by the parking spot daily with Philippians 4:13 written on it. Despite…

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A black pastor of a multiethnic church recently shared how he identifies more with the cross than with the color of his skin and believes a Christian’s identity should be rooted in Jesus, not race. “A lot of people, they look at themselves as a black person or a white person or a Hispanic person,”…

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Former Vice President Mike Pence says in a new book that shortly after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, he told then-President Donald Trump that he would be praying for him. The conversation took place eight days after protesters attacked the capitol during the certification of the electoral votes, some of them chanting, “hang Mike Pence.”…

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