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Mar 22 2024
News
Milwaukee Wave faithful get hyped up for fan appreciation night
MILWAUKEE — Fans of the Milwaukee Wave were getting hyped up for fan appreciation night on Friday. It was also the last home game of the regular season before the Wave begins their playoff run. The playoff-bound Wave is in second place in the Eastern Division and third place overall with a record of 15-7. Watch the video above to hear from the team and super fans ahead of the 2024 playoffs. It
WTMJ 4 MilwaukeeApr 13 2024
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'A really good day': Arizona faith leaders celebrate Supreme Court ruling on abortion
Phoenix-area clergy expressed concern, optimism and rejoicing, among other feelings, in response to this week’s court ruling to uphold Arizona’s pre-statehood abortion ban. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in a 4-to-2 decision on Tuesday that the state's 1864 law banning abortion will remain in place. Some leaders within the Valley’s diverse faith communities shared their varying thoughts on
AZ CentralDec 15 2023
News
What a Satanic Statue Says About American Religion
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir. And folks lighting candles for a goat-headed satanic mannequin. Even the most wonderful time of the year is stranger than it used to be. I’m referring, of course, to the public display of Baphomet erected at the Iowa state capitol by the local Satanic Temple. This erupted into the public
Christianity TodayApr 17 2024
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Adulterers on Ashley Madison reveal what they are faithful to, 87% would cheat on their partner before taxes
Admitted adulterers are more loyal to their cell phone providers and real estate agent than their spouses, according to controversial online dating service Ashley Madison, which caters to married people and uses the slogan, "Life is short. Have an affair." Ashley Madison conducted a survey to determine how faithful members are outside the bedroom, and the results show that adulterers can be
Fox News DigitalApr 04 2024
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Denver Muslim and Jewish faith leaders are coming together to combat hate and foster hope
They sit together like the old friends they have become. To some, unlikely partners in the current political and religious climate, but unabashed and unbowed by the pressures that exist amid war and death, tragedy and fear, insult or threat. "We have known each other for a while," said Imam Mohammad Kolila, of the Downtown Denver Islamic Center. "It started in a restaurant having lunch
CBS News (Online)Sep 08 2022
Opinion
Is Religion the Opium of the People, or the Ladder?
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,” wrote Karl Marx, “…the opium of the people.” Decades of often painful historical experience has proven his observation both right and wrong. Believing in God does ease pain and suffering of faithful followers, but he was wrong in thinking that religion, especially Christianity, leaves them with nowhere else to go from there.
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Christian HeadlinesNov 19 2021
Conversation Guide
Faith in Politics
How do we respect the rights of individuals in their pursuit of happiness and maintain a cohesive culture in our country? Religion and faith are part of the human experience. This conversation allows us the opportunity to hear how others incorporate their faith into a lived experience and where we each believe the boundaries of faith exist.
Living Room ConversationsMar 16 2024
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Small business faith endures amid waning trust in U.S. institutions
Institutions play a critical role in every individual’s life as the primary tool to provide structure to society and, at the most basic level, get things done. But across the U.S., the collective faith in societal institutions has been waning for decades and, for most categories, hovers at or near all-time lows. An annual national survey conducted by Gallup and going back to the late 1970s
Deseret NewsMar 25 2024
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Faith leaders, GOP say gender identity protections impinge on their religious freedom
Minnesota House Republicans and faith community members unsuccessfully sought to declare an urgency Monday to insert a religious exemption for gender identity in the state Human Rights Act. "Will you show that 'one Minnesota' includes people of faith? Including the faith community that you don't agree with?" asked Rep. Harry Niska, R-Ramsey, on the House floor. There was no debate. House
Star TribuneApr 08 2024
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‘Tragic and horrendous’: Probe exposes loophole in how Mormon church, other faiths handle cases
Paul Rytting had been director of the Risk Management Division at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for around 15 years when a 31-year-old church member told him that her father, a former bishop, had sexually abused her when she was a child. By that time, Chelsea’s father, John Goodrich, had made a religious confession to a bishop with the church, widely known as the Mormon
Lincoln Journal Star