Acts 29 Vice President Removed After Admitting To Extramarital Relationship

The U.S. vice president of Acts 29 has confessed to a “long-term extramarital relationship.” The church planting network removed Tyler Jones from leadership, citing “clear standards of integrity, transparency, and biblical conduct.”

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Meet Greenland’s Only Catholic Parish Priest Whose Church Faces Big Challenges

Greenland, a remote, ice-covered territory three times the size of Texas, has just one Catholic church, Christ the King, in Nuuk, where Pastor Tomaz Majcen serves a tiny, mostly immigrant congregation. Amid harsh conditions, social struggles and global attention, the Catholic community provides faith, support and connection in the world’s least-Catholic land.

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March Madness: 5 Catholic Schools Battling For NCAA Basketball Tournament Bids

As the calendar prepares to flip to March, the race to secure a spot in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has intensified. With Selection Sunday scheduled for March 15 looming, schools across the country are jockeying for position — some fighting to improve their seeding, while others want to remain on the bubble hoping to be selected.  

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Crossroads Podcast: Inside Deepak Chopra’s Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein

It’s also important that this unconventional religious leader’s social ties to Epstein continued long after the financier became a convicted sex offender, after he pled guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

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After Minneapolis, A YouTuber Chases Orthodox Jewish ‘Welfare Queens’

Overt antisemitism among online influencers has started to break into the real world. A notable recent example comes via Tyler Oliveira, a YouTuber who rose to fame with stunts like trying to absorb a swimming pool’s worth of water with paper towels before pivoting to “documentaries” that often purport to expose conservative bugaboos — and who has filmed two recent videos focused on Jews.

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‘Happy Last Birthday Ben!’: Sasse Faces Death With Faith And Resolve

Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse reflects on his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and limited prognosis. In a Hoover Institution interview, Sasse speaks candidly about pain, mortality and Christian hope, urging believers to face death without despair while serving others with whatever time remains.

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How The Apocrypha Shaped Christian Tradition For Centuries

(ANALYSIS) Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church.” Catholic tradition considers him the first pope. Martyred in the first century, Peter asked to be crucified upside down so he would not die the same way as Christ. That story, however, is not in the Bible.

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Latter-Day Saints Open First-Ever Temple In Zimbabwe

In a nation defined by profound Christian commitment, theologians said that the construction and dedication of an LDS temple shows the growth of the faith in a country where many people still struggle to equate Mormons with other Christian denominations. The temple, which opens on March 1, will now serve as a home to the thousands of Mormons who live in Zimbabwe.

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Camp Mystic Families Sue Texas State Officials For Children’s Deaths

Nine of the families who tragically lost their children are now suing state officials who led the Texas Department of State Health Services for licensing Camp Mystic despite its emergency instructions that campers stay in their cabins in case of a flood.

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How C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Warning Has Come True 80 Years Later

Lewis’s 1945 novel “That Hideous Strength” was marketed as fiction, but it read like more like a prophecy. Lewis’ warning at the time cuts deep for modern-day readers. The danger is not artificial intelligence itself. The danger, Lewis argues, is what happens when humans regard tech tools as oracles. It’s about what happens when humanity stops kneeling before God and starts bowing to its own tools.

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Ukrainian Christians Call War A Fight For Faith, Freedom And Gospel Witness

In Ukraine, Christian leaders say the war with Russia since 2022 is a fight for national survival and religious freedom. Citing clergy deaths and widespread casualties, advocates urge global prayer and support, calling Ukraine a vital hub for Gospel witness in Europe and the former Soviet region.

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‘Bearing False Witness’: MAGA And The Death Of The Ninth Commandment

(OPINION) Conservative Christians want the Ten Commandments in our classrooms and courtrooms, while their preferred candidate and president shreds the Ninth Commandment’s order to not “bear false witness against our neighbor” with abandon.

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‘Blessed Are The Meek’: Once Considered Positive, It’s An ‘Undersung Virtues’

(ANALYSIS) What do you envision when you think of meekness? You probably see a mousy doormat, someone sheepishly acquiescing to the will of the stronger. When Jesus says, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,” you might think that those wimps will hand it over without a whimper or word of objection to stronger, more ambitious people.”

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Appeals Court Who Declined To Block Ten Commandments Law Got It Right

The Fifth Circuit ruled in Roake v. Brumley that Louisiana may proceed with its Ten Commandments school display law, holding that challenges are premature because no specific display yet exists. The court did not decide on the constitutionality, stressing that any judgment depends on the context and implementation of future displays.

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Here’s What Helped Change The Faith-Based Film Industry For The Better

Christian movies have a pretty negative reputation. But, in recent years, their Rotten Tomatoes scores have been on a steady uptick. What’s happening? The tide that has turned in the faith-based film industry is multifaceted. The studios have become willing to give Christian directors bigger budgets. Writers have started telling stories with more complicated heroes and honest portrayals of life.

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Christian Ministry Prevails In Challenge To Ordinance Restricting Donation Boxes

The City of Mansfield, a suburb of about 80,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is the latest in a string of municipalities that have enacted regulations restricting the activities of Christian ministries.

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‘Political Culture Interprets Moral Intensity’: What’s The Most Sinful State In America?

Well, it depends on whom you ask — and what you consider a sin. WalletHub crunched the numbers to find the most sinful among the United States. A new report compared all 50 states across 54 key indicators of immoral or illegal behavior, ranging from the percentage of violent crimes to the share of the population with gambling disorders.

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Hospital Chaplain Shares What End-Of-Life Patients Regret Most

You don’t have to be a person of faith to be visited by or to express a desire to see a hospital chaplain. In fact, a 2022 Gallup survey found that approximately one in four Americans have encountered a chaplain, with half saying that the meeting occurred in a healthcare setting (a bit more than 10 percent of those polled mentioned the military).  

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US Protestant Foreign Missions Enter A Time Of Upheaval

(ANALYSIS) After 188 years of illustrious efforts worldwide, the PCUSA’s foreign mission agency is disbanding. The denomination said it would no longer dispatch a corps of career missionaries overseas, though it will continue to aid international partners.

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Charity And The Art Of Seeing The Best In One Another

(ANALYSIS) Understanding others requires charitable interpretation: Seeing them as protagonists doing their best within imperfect circumstances. While we can misjudge by overlooking faults or inventing virtues, it is often worse to dismiss others outright. Balancing agency and generosity fosters humility, productive disagreement and cooperation across personal, cultural and political divides.

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