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Sept. 10, 1942 - May 14, 2023

Sept. 10, 1942 - May 14, 2023

Do you know what your name means? I remember when Karen and I were starting our family, we had so much fun with a couple of those “baby naming” books. It would…

Over two weeks, more than 50,000 people descended on a small campus chapel to experience the nation’s first major spiritual revival in decades — one driven by Gen Z.

FORT WAYNE – I am proud of my wife. Now that can be taken as a generalization, given that we have been married for more than 50 years. But in

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(RNS) — An analysis of departing churches suggests the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination will be weakened, but it is unlikely to break.

The initial departures, mostly concentrated in the South, represent around 6 percent of the denomination—not as dramatic as the “schism” some feared.

In the years before the U.S. Civil War, three major Christian denominations split over slavery. These were the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist. In