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When most people walk into a church hall, they might notice the chairs neatly arranged or the cross at the front. But for ...

Christian Artist Dante Bowe has declared he is "done with the celebrity fashion-driven worship."While on a men's retreat last ...

‘Blessed is the man who goes to sleep under the protection of that outpost, the outpost of those three or four words.’ —Charles Peguy Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), “Almighty God the Father,” detail of ...