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"Hip-hop has, in some ways, become kind of like country music," he noted. It's a common, evolving musical language in which ...

Christians who believe in a divine Son of God Messiah, do not draw a distinction between the Hebrew Bible’s eschatological hopes for God’s glorious future age of world wide peace and justice, and an ...

In Revelation chapter 11, the apostle John was given a new assignment to measure the temple and the altar. Until now, John saw, listened and learned. But now, he is commanded to do something; i.e., ...

In the first centuries of Christian life, bishops wrestled with the Greek in this puzzle – whether God the Father and Jesus were “homoiousios (of similar substance)” or “homoousios (of one substance), ...

St. Michael’s Sword” is a line that follows the locations of seven sanctuaries dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel from ...

Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from ...

Wilberg has been the choir’s music director since 2008, and was the associate director for the previous nine years, which puts his own involvement with “Music & the Spoken Word” at over 1,600 episodes ...

The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, ...

But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matthew 24:36 ...

Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment in the law. He replied, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great ...

Kenya has bid farewell to Fr. Hermann Borg, the multi-award-winning German Priest famed for his environmental conservation ...