The Christmas season is an exciting time for children – perhaps a little too exciting at times. Christi Bergin, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist at the University of Missouri, shared advice for making ...
Read More »Missouri bill would protect unborn after heart activity is detected
Abortions after doctors have determined an unborn child has cardiac activity would be banned under a bill filed in the Missouri Legislature. Under the bill, private citizens could sue doctors or others ...
Read More »Alabama quarterback Bryce Young shares his faith after winning Heisman Trophy
Alabama quarterback Bryce Young won this year’s Heisman Trophy as the best player in college football. He quickly gave credit where it belongs. “First and foremost, I’d like to thank my Lord ...
Read More »Missouri officials anticipate record revenues in coming year
Despite the pandemic, Missouri revenues have never been higher. Gov. Mike Parson and legislative budget leaders released estimates for revenue in the year that begins July 1, 2022, showing revenues are expected ...
Read More »City Union Mission Christmas store serves 800 families this year
The City Union Mission’s Christmas Store, where homeless, near-homeless and at-risk men and women can shop for their families at no cost, will close its doors for the season tomorrow, December 22. ...
Read More »Israel bans citizens from traveling to United States over Covid
The Israel cabinet on Monday approved a ban on travel to the United States because of concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant. All travel restrictions, including those entering Israel, ...
Read More »VIDEO: “Jesus Christ forever changed the world,” Trump says at Texas church
Jesus is the “ultimate source of our strength and hope,” former President Donald Trump told members of First Baptist Church in Dallas last Sunday. Trump quoted scripture and discussed the influence of ...
Read More »Missionaries snuck past numerous guards in daring Haiti escape
Escaping captors in the middle of the night, 12 Christian Aid Ministries missionaries hiked silently through the moonlit jungle of Haiti, pausing at times to pray for the direction that led to ...
Read More »Christmas season puts spotlight on epidemic of loneliness – including in the church
With the Christmas bustle, it can be easy to forget that the holidays can be one of the loneliest times of the year for many people. Nearly one-third of U.S. adults report ...
Read More »Pentagon will monitor service members’ social media “likes”
The Pentagon is being criticized for including “likes” on social media as extremist activities. The revised policy comes as the result of the controversial Counter Extremist Activity Working Group established in the ...
Read More »Supreme Court tells White House to respond to mandate lawsuits
In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court is telling the Biden administration to respond to dozens of lawsuits challenging its controversial vaccine mandate for private employers. Justice Brett Kavanaugh told administration ...
Read More »Slavic Gospel Association brings hope to children in former Soviet bloc nations
About 800 local churches across Russia and the former Soviet Union will deliver Christmas gifts and the gospel — along with personalized greetings from donors in the United States — to an ...
Read More »National debt soars to nearly $300,000 for each American household
If rising inflation were not enough, every U.S. household also owes nearly $300,000 as their share of the national debt. The current debt has reached about $28.9 trillion, a number that is ...
Read More »For King & Country joins “The Chosen” for “A Silent Night” starting Dec. 18
Three of the biggest names in Christian culture have teamed up for a Christmas special. The duo For King & Country, “The Chosen” TV series and the Museum of the Bible are ...
Read More »Facebook is ‘worst company of 2021’ according to survey
There may be another reason Facebook changed its name to Meta. The social media company is the “the worst company of 2021” in the results of an audience survey conducted by Yahoo Finance. The poll, ...
Read More »Pressure grows for NBC to cancel broadcast of “genocide Olympics”
Pressure is growing for NBC to drop its broadcast of the Beijing Winter Olympics scheduled to be broadcast in February. The demand comes as protests continue against China’s genocide campaign against ethnic ...
Read More »Microsoft Bing suspends auto-suggest in Communist China
More American companies are bowing to Communist China’s demands for greater censorship. Now Microsoft Corporation’s Bing, the only major foreign search engine available in China, has stopped its auto-suggest function in China ...
Read More »Researchers say they have discovered the cause of Alzheimer’s
The cause of Alzheimer’s disease has most likely been discovered on a molecular level, according to researchers. If confirmed, the discovery could lead to a cure in coming years, bringing hope to ...
Read More »Delta Airlines: weak Omicron not expected to greatly affect profits
As media outlets ramp up coverage of Omicron, Delta Airlines is responding with a yawn. America’s largest airline reported on Thursday it expects to post an annual profit in 2022, as strong ...
Read More »H&R Block not happy with Square’s name change to Block
The financial services company Square is changing its name to Block, and Kansas City-based H&R Block is not happy about it. Until the end of November, Jack Dorsey, as chief executive of ...
Read More »Senate Parliamentarian blocks Democrat amnesty for 7 million illegals
The non-partisan gatekeeper of the U.S. Senate has ruled that the Democrat attempt to insert amnesty for illegal immigrants into the Build Back Better bill violates parliamentary procedure. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ...
Read More »Israel is on the ground helping Kentucky residents recover from tornado
Israel has become the only nation to send aid to U.S. tornado-ravaged Kentucky. It includes supplies and other relief plus hundreds of volunteers working on the ground this week. The Israeli government, ...
Read More »Descendants work to preserve historic Black church in Pennytown, Missouri
“When I come to this church, I walk in, and I see and feel and hear my ancestors,” says Clarence Lawrence, one of the few remaining descendants of a town founded by ...
Read More »What ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ got wrong about Christians
For two centuries those who defended the Roman empire blamed its destruction on Christianity but the facts reveal a much different story. In The Devil’s Dictionary, the writer Ambrose Bierce offered this ...
Read More »How do Christian-Jewish families navigate the Christmas tree?
Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families – or at least in writing about them – the month of December is referred to as a “dilemma.” This time of year brings discussion about whether to celebrate Christmas, ...
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