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Bible stories would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list drawing attention
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (791+ words) Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers,…...
Crayon therapy: St. Paul minister creates, donates coloring books for women in shelters
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (720+ words) Peggy Pugh remembers coloring at 3 years old. She remembers how her parents would argue in the background and how, despite the chaos in the home, she’d find her own little pocket of peace. One that was all hers. A blank…...
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids
9+ mon, 13+ hour ago (844+ words) By LEAH WILLINGHAM and LAURA BARGFELD, Associated Press Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery and some arguing they should…...
‘Love my woke pope’: Why Leo’s first encyclical went viral and how it speaks to his papal approach
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (882+ words) In another viral post, one X user referenced a common meme in response to the encyclical, writing: “The atheism leaving my body the moment the pope starts talking about how AI is an affront to God and the new Tower…...
Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (873+ words) By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors focused on the issue of reparations in its second annual report. It’s an often sensitive topic for the church, given the financial, reputational and legal implications it…...
St. Paul: CLUES moves food service, child care into former church site
11+ mon, 21+ hour ago (748+ words) For years, First Lutheran Church in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff rented its education building at 461 Maria Ave. to a handful of nonprofits like the East Side Elders program and Urban Roots. Over the past year or more, the social service…...
Vance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast
1+ week, 3+ day ago (600+ words) Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another Republican as…...
St. Paul’s first Thanksgiving 175 years ago lacked turkeys, but not booze
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (484+ words) Turkey was not on the menu when St. Paul celebrated its first Thanksgiving 175 years ago. The iconic American game bird was “as scarce as hen’s teeth” in the infant city when residents sat down to their holiday dinners in late…...
Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the US goes to war with Iran
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (792+ words) He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially…...
Andreas Kluth: The pope has a message for the ‘secretary of war’
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (496+ words) You’d have to be willfully obtuse to miss the American-born pontiff’s reference. He was criticizing the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and distancing the church from attitudes expressed by the administration of Donald Trump, and specifically Pete Hegseth, the…...