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Robin Roberts, Stevie Wonder, Queen Latifah and Aaron Neville are among the celebrities who will take part in a second “Stand Up to Cancer” telethon next month. Along with Roberts, a breast cancer survivor, the commercial-free special will also feature appearances by other actors, athletes and musicians who have faced the disease, including Maura Tierney, […]
WOODLAKE, Calif. — An 11-year-old boy was rescued from a chimney after getting stuck trying to climb into a locked home to let his family in. Matthew McCammon spent about two hours wedged between bricks and soot before Woodlake firefighters could dismantle part of the chimney and pull him out Monday. Neighbors say the family […]
On April 14, 2009, as Barack Obama’s standing in the polls was beginning to slip, and as Tea Party demonstrators were amassing in Washington for tax day protests, the president gave a lengthy address at Georgetown University explaining the “five pillars” of his economic policies. The speech was intended to promote a memorable slogan for […]
Many more illnesses are being blamed on a nationwide Salmonella outbreak and California’s NuCal Foods is expanding a shell egg recall to include five additional brand names not named by Iowa’s Wright County Egg, which recalled over a dozen brands of eggs late last week.
For the fourth consecutive year, U.S.News & World Report has produced a ranking of the undergraduate education at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). These colleges were compared only with one another for these rankings. How did we choose the schools to be part of the survey? In order to be on the list, […]
LONDON (Aug. 13) — Chris Juby has set himself a task of truly biblical proportions: to summarize the 800,000-plus words in the Old and New Testaments in a series of snappy daily tweets.
GREEN, Ohio – Authorities are investigating a series of plastic bottle bomb explosions inside residential mailboxes in Green.
OAKWOOD VILLAGE (WOIO) – A nasty wreck on Interstate 271 northbound is tying up traffic in that area.
Vista, CA (PRWEB) August 11, 2010 – The church in the United States is in a general state of decline, with fewer than one in five Americans attending on a regular basis and almost 8 million – 150,000 per week – leaving churches each year. To help invite them back, Outreach Inc. is offering “reDiscover Church,” […]
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO (KTVI – FOX2now.com) – Your mom always told you to stand up straight. Did you know bad posture can affect dozens of joints in the body?
Brandon O’Brien, associate editor for Leadership Journal, has written a new book, The Strategically Small Church. In this work, he seeks to demonstrate how small churches are uniquely equipped for success in today’s culture. Ed Stetzer interviewed O’Brien about his book and why being small may be more missionally strategic. Ed: What do you mean […]