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Ignatius of Antioch, called Saint Ignatius by Catholics and some other groups, lived in the 1st and second century, dying via slaughter by wild beasts in a Roman amphitheater.  He was subjected to death by the Roman emperor, for his crime of living a distinctive and influential Christian life.  Ignatius ...

Paris, France, recently experienced her worst nightmare…a terrorist attack motivated by Islamic State proponents of evil who were displeased with the content of some cartoons published by the staff of Charlie Hebdo, a humor magazine.  If a movie was made about this act, the advertisements might read, “Coming soon to ...

A storm that instantly subsides, a blind man healed by spit, one boy’s lunch that feeds a crowd with leftovers. All appear to be out of the ordinary, yet each circumstance has one main purpose, to show God’s crazy love for us. That same God gave True Bethel Baptist church ...

‘And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.  So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their ...

My rump has repeatedly taken a beating since lately–and it’s not from a belt. It’s from learning how to skate. I’ll be honest, I’m good at a lot of things, it’s just that skating isn’t one of them. There is something about balance maintenance that I haven’t quite figured out ...