CICW funds 34 new grant projects in worship, preaching
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Religious traditions can help with holiday blues, mental health experts say
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Trump’s cabinet selections represent an unusual slice of American religious life
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A Christmas miracle in Syria
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Spiritual Literacy Month is one couple’s legacy of right intention
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3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing two people
A midrash on ‘The Wizard of Oz’
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American pilgrim imprisoned in Assad’s Syria calls his release from prison a ‘blessing’
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Timothy Snyder On Religion, Power, and Freedom
This week, renowned historian and author Timothy Snyder joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss the complex relationship
US Senate chaplain Barry Black hospitalized after brain bleed
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black has been hospitalized after suffering a bleed on his brain and is