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Even with all our religious paraphernalia, great choirs, singers, preachers and musicians, we are in desperate need of God.

The phone call Christina Aguirre received on Christmas Eve two years ago was life changing in the best way possible. "I was in shock, I was speechless," the longtime city resident recalled of her ...

The Bible has been banned from a Texas school district after a new state law was passed which prohibits any books with ...

Texas bans the Bible in school libraries under a new law targeting sexually explicit content, sparking controversy and ...

Back in the days when I was working for the late Earl Nightingale, I remember him saying, "There is no price too great to pay for creditability." I have thought of that saying many times since then.

Podcast host had been open about her struggles with hyperemis gravidarum, which causes severe and prolonged nausea ...

Each person is a child of the living God, and that means they are somebody, observes Derrick Porter in this week’s “Music & the Spoken Word” with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Watch it here.

The Bible was removed from Canyon Independent School District in Texas after a new law banned sexually explicit books. The ...