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Pastors, We Have to Play the Long Game

Christianity Today  

This year has been rough for the church in Dallas–Fort Worth where I pastor. At least eight pastors, and recently another, have been publicly disqualified for inappropriate relationships or abusive behavior. Enough people emerged from the wreckage and made their way to our local body that I addressed the pain of this summer from the Read more...

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Middle East Muslims are Finding Jesus. Can They Fit Within a Weakened Church?

Christianity Today  

In the Arab world today, the war in Gaza dominates the news, with its small Palestinian Christian community caught in the crossfire. But over the last decade, ancient churches have faced persecution in Syria and Iraq, while political instability and terrorism have threatened believers in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. Nevertheless, the church’s activity in this Read more...

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‘The Office’ Meets Exodus in ‘The Promised Land’

Christianity Today  

We tend to imagine Moses as someone larger than life. Films like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, and Exodus: Gods and Kings focus on the heroic role he played in the epic struggle for the Israelites’ liberation from slavery. They build up to dramatic moments like the parting of the Red Sea and Read more...

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YouTube Gold: Grant Hill’s Duke Highlights

Duke Basketball Report 

UNITED STATES - APRIL 01: College Basketball: NCAA Final Four, Duke Grant Hill (33) in action, taking 2nd half shot vs Kansas, Indianapolis, IN 4/1/1991 | SetNumber: X41204 TK6 R12 F21

A spectacular talent, Hill won two national championships at Duke and barely missed a third.

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Mayor Adams indictment: Timeline of federal investigations

Pix11.com 

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Mayor Eric Adams’ historic indictment on federal criminal charges Wednesday night trails a tumultuous year of investigations into Adams and key city officials. News of federal investigations into Adams’ administration first broke in November 2023, when the home of a top fundraiser for Adams’ mayoral campaign, Brianna Suggs, was raided. [...]

New York court to hear Trump’s appeal of $454M civil fraud judgment

TheHill.com 

The fortune former President Trump rode to fame and, later, to the White House will be on the line Thursday when a New York appeals court weighs whether a multimillion-dollar judgment against him and his business empire can stand.   A five-judge panel will hear arguments in Trump’s appeal of the $464 million, plus interest, judgment...

Effort to force vote on Social Security bill stirs unrest in House GOP 

TheHill.com 

A group of House Republicans is making a rare move that would force a vote on a bill to reform aspects of Social Security, stirring unrest in the conference. The bill at the heart of the push, also dubbed the Social Security Fairness Act, seeks to do away with the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension...

Lobbying World: Alpine Group names new CEO

TheHill.com 

Keenan Austin Reed will be the next CEO of the Alpine Group. Before joining Alpine in 2021, she was chief of staff to then-Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) and previously served as the Clinton campaign’s statewide political director in Florida during the 2016 election. She is also the founder of the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance, a...

Vance, Walz face potential game-changing moment with VP debate

TheHill.com 

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) are set to take to the debate stage next week at a critical moment in the presidential race, with more than a month to go before Election Day and polls showing a razor-tight race. Both men face pressure to perform well, with Vance looking to...

Harris holds 8-point lead over Trump in Virginia: Poll

TheHill.com 

Vice President Harris holds a comfortable lead in the presidential race in Virginia, according to a new poll from Emerson College/The Hill/WAVY-TV 10/WVBT FOX43.  Fifty-two percent of likely Virginia voters said if the election were held today they would vote for Harris, while 44 percent said the same about Trump. Four percent said they were...

Warren investigation blasts financial adviser perks as fiduciary reforms stall

TheHill.com 

Financial advisers long have been required to avoid conflicts of interest and act as “fiduciaries,” meaning they must act first and foremost in the best interest of their clients. But a new investigation by the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) found “a deeply troubling pattern of secretive incentives and rewards” for advisers, including expensive...

Harris’s call for filibuster reform gets pushback from Democrats

TheHill.com 

Some Democrats are sounding an early alarm on the prospect of reforming the Senate’s filibuster rule in 2025 if they keep control of the White House and Senate and win a House majority, setting the stage for a contentious debate over how far the party should go to respond to the Supreme Court’s overturning of...

Exiting GOP bullish it will have full control of government soon

TheHill.com 

Republicans are leaving Washington projecting confidence about their chances of returning to the Capitol in November knowing they'll have full control of government in 2025. Republicans in their final legislative days before heading home for the final weeks of a frantic campaign said they are confident the House GOP will retain its majority and that...

Harris struggles to break through with young Latinos

TheHill.com 

Vice President Harris is inching ahead in national polling, but her campaign has struggled to gain traction with young Latinos, a source of worry for some Democratic strategists. At the same time, former President Trump, strategists say, has continued to make inroads with the demographic, helping to boost his candidacy in key battleground states.   “There...

Experts see hope in new book ban data, but caution much work is left to be done

TheHill.com 

Opponents of book bans across the nation see signs of hope in a pair of reports released this week, but they say the data also demonstrated the vast scope of the issue. The American Library Association (ALA) found a drop in challenges to books in the first eight months of this year compared to the...