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Bethel University has been a leader in Christian higher education since 1871. Come see why we're one of the most ...

STANTON — A Madison woman was denied a probation request in Stanton County District Court on Monday for her latest drunken driving conviction. Heavy rainfall, intermittent hail and strong winds moved ...

A political action committee formerly known as Evangelicals for Harris apologized for using footage of the late Rev Billy ...

Swaggart’s calls for a return to conservative Christian norms live on in today’s world of tradwives, limited access to ...

There is an epidemic going on today that robs people of peace and joy, and it shortens our lives by years. I am not talking ...

And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’” (Matthew 7:21-23) One can accomplish great things in Jesus’ name and abide in him as well, but great ...

Parrhesia has four characteristics: Truth, risk, criticism and duty. Moyers knew his calling was to be a truth-seeking, truth ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome, his first break since his election in May, but he has plenty to think about.

Swaggart died at the age of 90 in Baton Rouge, LA—two weeks after his son, Donnie, revealed he was in the hospital.

Whether at Christmas or the Fourth of July, these Christian nationalist-themed services are nothing new, Rick Pidcock says.

Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most prominent US televangelists of the 1980s, died two weeks after suffering a cardiac arrest on ...