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James Riordan‘s current events article series, “A Well Thought-Out Scream”

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On Saturday morning, eleven people were shot at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Worshippers had gathered at the synagogue, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood for a baby naming ceremony during the Sabbath.  According to reports, the suspect, who has been officially identified as Robert Bowers, 46,  a white

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Freedom of choice is an America right, one of the pillars of our nation.  There must be some limits on that freedom, however.  Your freedom of choice can not take away another person’s freedom of choice.  Obviously, you can’t have the freedom to kill whomever you want because that takes

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This past July I wrote about the plight of pastor Andrew Brunson who had been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey since October of 2016.  Brunson was jailed after being scooped up in a crackdown of Turkish President Erdogan’s political opponents in the wake of an attempted coup.  He lost fifty pounds

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I grew up in the 1950s and early 1960’s.  I can remember running through the neighborhood when we were twelve or thirteen doing silly kid stuff like knocking on doors and running (ding,dong ditch) or throwing crabapples at cars. A couple of times the police caught us – one time

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John MacArthur has been a huge voice in modern Christianity fro as long as I can remember,  Since completing his first best-selling book The Gospel According to Jesus in 1988,he’s written hundred of books and study guides including the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold

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It appears Nike is doing just fine in the wake of one of the most predictably divisive marketing campaigns in recent memory. Ten days after Nike announced that Colin Kaepernick would be the face of its “Just Do It” 30th anniversary ad campaign, the sports apparel behemoth’s stock price closed at an all-time

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in those areas would be eliminated. Turkey, which has backed some rebel groups in Syria, has been working with Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar

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When I was in Catholic grade school the nuns used to smack me around a lot, but the verbal abuse was a lot worse. “Jesus doesn’t like you,” my second grade teacher told me, “because you don’t obey!” For year after those four years in Catholic Grade school, I thought

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Pesticide manufacturer Monsanto was found liable by a California jury on Friday in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first

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The “Queen James Bible”, boasted as being the first in the world “gay Bible.” The Queen James Bible? Sounds like a joke from the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy television show, right? But no, it’s real and part of a large movement in education offering classes in theology from a

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