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Another Christian Kills

A baseball pitching star with the Tampa Bay Rays minor league system was stunned last week to learn that his wife, baby son, mother-in-law, and pet dog had all been killed by his 19-year-old brother-in-law. The sports star, Blake Bivens, was informed that the murders took place at the family’s home in southern Virginia. The

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Demons

For several weeks, the press and public have been obsessed with information about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Fascination only increased when, on August 10, 2019, he apparently killed himself in his jail cell, in the Metropolitan Correction Center located in New York City. That suicide unleashed a torrent of conspiratorial speculation about whether he was

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Curses Have Consequences

Before there was El Paso and Dayton, there was Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 24, 1998. Two children, Mitchel Johnson, age 13, and Andrew Golden, age 11, set up a slaughter at their middle school. They rang a fire alarm, causing the evacuation of the school, while waiting in a wooded area 100 yards away. The two

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Dysfunction or Demons?

For decades, Pastor Bill Hybels of the Chicago-area Willow Creek Community Church was the reigning dean of megachurch pastors. Before there was Rick Warren or Joel Osteen, there was Hybels, whose church growth policies spawned a “denomination” of imitators. Now, his empire of 20,000-plus weekly attendees on seven campuses lays in ruins. The demise came

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