OPINION: The devil isn’t the only one who is strategic.
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Stanley told church members he would no longer be employed by the church as of May 2027, when he turns 69. North Point, which claims 37,000 weekly worshippers, is one of the nation's largest churches. Joel Thomas has been nominated as his successor.
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OPINION: Divisions over Israel and the war in Gaza are testing longstanding political loyalties among American Jews, whose votes could prove decisive in closely contested congressional races.
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In separate events, the vice president and the Democratic Senate candidate faced questions that highlight the intersection of faith and politics.
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OPINION: When the framers wrote the Constitution, race stood at the front, but religion was always there alongside it.
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While Gov. Abbott has been a vocal opponent of what he calls the 'Islamification' of Texas, he also has received more than $15 million in donations from S. Javaid Anwar, a philanthropist and oil industry exec.
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A North Texas coalition of congregations, clergy and attorneys is helping asylum seekers connect with legal support and challenge detentions. Their efforts have reached more than 1,200 people over the past year, organizers estimate.
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Catholics in Chicago and around the world met the news of Leo's lung cancer diagnosis with shock, concern and support for the 71-year-old, whose candor around his health broke with the Vatican's tendency to be tight-lipped around papal health.
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OPINION: Belief in science and belief in magic can coexist.
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Alexandros Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, Illinois, faces felony charges of making a terrorist threat and unlawfully possessing weapons.
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OPINION: You think that this is a travelogue. It is more — a journey into the heart of the Jewish soul.
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Dozens of well-wishers greeted the pope as he walked out of the hospital and into a waiting vehicle to return to the Vatican.
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OPINION: An attempted terrorist attack against a Hindu temple near Chicago shows the growing prominence of minority places of worship in the West. That prominence brings greater visibility and new risks.
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The Saudi-led coalition also said it had twice intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles launched Monday by the Houthis toward Riyadh.
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The crisis was triggered in late July when about 80,000 people poured into the Spanish exclave from neighboring Morocco, driven by rumors online that Spain had opened its border.
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The Vatican has detailed laws, rituals and norms to transfer papal power if a pope dies or resigns. But none of them apply when he is sick or even unconscious.
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OPINION: We are bent under the weight of the most powerful man in the world: The Ukraine war. The Iranian war. Gas prices. Food prices. ICE abuses of immigrants. The Epstein files.
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Catholic bishops and leaders from the National Association of Evangelicals drew on the Bible and Declaration of Independence to make a case for immigration reform.
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OPINION: The first woman and first out lesbian to lead a Jewish congregational movement reflects on seven convictions about religion, community and democracy.
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