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getty images: To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6 I have such a heart for our country. It was founded on godly values and its people sought to live in accordance with biblical principles. Sadly, America […]

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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union.  And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it shorter.  I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa. I also understand […]

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While poverty rates have decreased for White and Asian families, Black children are more likely to live in poverty than children of other races, a new study from the Pew Research Center shows. In fact, 2 out of 5 Black children live in poverty, or 38 percent of the 11 million Black children living in […]

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  President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Wednesday setting a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour for workers under federal contracts, an administration official confirmed to The Huffington Post. The signing will take place at the White House, where the president is expected to be flanked by low-wage workers who called on […]

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PHILMONT, N.Y. — In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an…

Test the evidence. That’s what Willie Jerome Manning and his legal team have been asking the state of Mississippi to do over the past ten…

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Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of Christian America.” That declaration, which has been attributed to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., used to startle listeners. Now it’s virtually become a cliché. For years, various academic studies and news articles have reported what many churchgoers already know: most American congregations are segregated. In the latest […]

Feature

Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of Christian America.” That declaration, which has been attributed to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., used to startle listeners. Now it’s virtually become a cliché. For years, various academic studies and news articles have reported what many churchgoers already know: most American congregations are segregated. In the latest […]

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Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship. In office, he’s played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines. The ‘Beer Summit’: President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, have a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., second from left, and Cambridge, Mass. police Sgt. […]

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Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship. In office, he’s played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines. The ‘Beer Summit’: President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, have a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., second from left, and Cambridge, Mass. police Sgt. […]

In case you missed it, Charles Stanley had a blistering message on July 4th Sunday. He was quite vocal about the direction our country is headed. He's correct, Believers! We have fallen down on our job as Christians and it seems like we've lost quite a bit of our saltiness

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Each year, the sitting president signs a proclamation, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day.  In 2009, all 50 state governors plus the governors of several U.S. territories, signed similar proclamations. This day of prayer is non-denominational and encourages all Americans to exercise their religious freedom by gathering publicly to worship and pray for […]