Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is completing a dozen referrals of former priests for criminal prosecution, he announced last week. “We issued the report about a month ago with our findings and ...
Read More »Panel says hyperloop test track in Missouri could cost $500 million
Will Missourians support the controversial hyperloop linking the state’s two largest cities? That’s the hope of a blue ribbon panel charged with investigating the idea. An announcement Monday afternoon by House Speaker ...
Read More »Dems to bring first House vote on impeachment as early as Wednesday
After two weeks of hearings in a committee that is outside of the realm of congressional judicial matters, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that “we will bring a resolution to the Floor that ...
Read More »Missouri legislature continues to debate sports wagering
Companies that stand to gain the most from legal sports wagering in Missouri testified before the state legislature in Jefferson City last week. Sports betting only at land-based facilities such as casinos ...
Read More »Opponents of proposed Kansas City conversion therapy ban plan to testify before City Council
Just a week after a federal judge overturned a similar ban put in place by the city of Tampa, Fla., the Kansas City Council is considering a ban on conversion reparative therapy ...
Read More »Church affiliation proves to be reliable indicator of party affiliation
One of the best ways to predict if someone is a Republican or a Democrat is to ask if they regularly attend church – and what church. Almost every predominantly white Protestant ...
Read More »Washington Post mocked for laughable Baghdadi obituary
The Washington Post was roundly condemned Sunday for the initial headline on an obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that called the leader of the Islamic State an “austere religious scholar.” “There are ...
Read More »Northeast Kansas City church loses playground in fire after series of break-ins
Grace Church of the Nazarene in northeast Kansas City lost its playground in a fire this week, but Senior Pastor Tammy Carter is grateful there wasn’t more damage. “You know, another five ...
Read More »Sen. Josh Hawley introduces legislation to move federal jobs to depressed areas
The USDA recently caused a stir among career employees when it decided to move some of its operation from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Mo. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, wants ...
Read More »Missouri representative hopes to make it easier to become foster parents by speeding up training
Nearly 14,000 children currently are in the Missouri foster care system. Finding and training foster parents willing to give them loving homes seems to be a never-ending challenge. State Rep. Hannah Kelly, ...
Read More »The Vatican is investigating Catholic priest charged with sexual misconduct in Kansas City and Wyoming
An investigation in Kansas City into abuse charges against former Wyoming bishop Joseph Hart is on hold until the Vatican completes its administrative penal process, the Casper (Wyoming) Star-Tribune reported. Hart has ...
Read More »Trump announces U.S. forces have killed ISIS leader Baghdadi
President Trump Sunday morning spoke to the nation concerning U.S. Special Operations task forces conducting a raid targeting for death the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “Last night the United States brought the world’s number ...
Read More »‘Sign from God’: Iranian finds Christ after ‘miracle’ of seeing Lord’s Prayer in movie
After seeing the Lord’s Prayer in a Hollywood movie, an Iranian man was led to accept Christ as his personal savior. In 2016, “Bahram,” an Iranian man, saw the movie Hacksaw Ridge. ...
Read More »TobyMac reveals final message from son who died Wednesday
After the death of his son Truet Foster McKeehan on Wednesday, Christian rapper TobyMac released the final and heartbreaking text messages the young man sent to him just days before. TobyMac spoke out ...
Read More »University of Missouri backs off ultimatum made to The Crossing church after sermon controversy
The fallout continues from the decision by Ragtag Cinema and the True/False Film Festival in Columbia to cut ties with The Crossing church because of a recent sermon about gender. The University ...
Read More »Missouri has now tested almost all of its backlog of rape kits
Missouri Republicans have successfully fulfilled a promise to the state’s sexual assault victims to test the huge backlog of rape kits that existed for over a decade. They’ve also secured some Federal ...
Read More »Democrat-run Illinois to impose car tax on trade-ins
Car dealers may have a busy New Year’s Eve if Illinois residents try to beat a significant sales tax expansion on vehicle trade-ins that starts in 2020. The state currently collects no ...
Read More »Drinking water out of thin air: technology changing poor villages around the world
Poor and neglected towns around the world now have access to clean drinking water. And, it’s appearing out of thin air. After a decade of development, a company called “Watergen” has created ...
Read More »Communist officials remove Chinese worshippers then destroy church
While NBA players like LeBron James defend China’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, authorities in China have forcibly removed Christians then bulldozed their church. The atrocity also included the arrest of ...
Read More »It’s Thomas Edison vs. Tesla vs. Westinghouse in ‘The Current War’
He was known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park.” In the 19th Century, inventor Thomas Alva Edison was probably as close to a pop-culture icon as you might find. And when a genius ...
Read More »Vacation in paradise takes unexpected turn with disturbing dream, Maasai warriors, and a powerful encounter with God
Peter and Tammy Russell work with Wild Hope International in Tanzania after spending years working with Kenya’s Maasai. Peter enjoys training Christian leaders and potential leaders “in the life of radical faith,” ...
Read More »Parts of aborted babies being transplanted into mice, other lab animals
In what could only be described as a scene from a Frankenstein movie, organs, bones and other body parts of aborted babies are being sold and transplanted into lab animals. Worse yet, ...
Read More »Jerusalem street on which Jesus walked, and built by Pontius Pilate, now open to public
Pontius Pilate has gone down in history for his role in the crucifixion of Jesus. However, archaeologists recently found that he also invested time and money in building the infrastructure of Jerusalem ...
Read More »‘Cancel culture’ forces church to stop screening of Jordan Peterson documentary
The “Cancel Culture” is beginning to come after churches. The latest example is a documentary about Jordan Peterson, Ph.D., a Canadian professor who has become well known for his stances against political ...
Read More »Man who thinks he’s a woman loses case against salon that refused to wax his genitals
In a surprise victory for Christian-owned Canadian businesses, a tribunal has ruled against a transgender who had taken a woman to court after she refused to wax his genitals in her home ...
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