Study: US divorce rate hits 50-year-low while marriage rate continues to fall
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“The Charlottesville, Virginia-based research organization [Institute for Family Studies] released the report on Tuesday, drawing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.” - CPost
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The Impact of Psychological Man—and How to Respond
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“Only by modeling true community, oriented towards the transcendent, can the church show a rapidly destabilizing world of expressive individuals that there is something greater, more solid, and more lasting than the immediate satisfaction of personal desires.” - Carl Trueman
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Pew and IDOP Agree: Religious Persecution Is Worsening Worldwide
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“The latest report on government restrictions and social hostilities in 198 nations follows the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.” - C.Today
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Bethel's Kris Vallotton says his apology for election prediction was premature, will wait
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“Bethel Church Senior Associate Leader Kris Vallotton is backtracking his apology for prophesying that President Donald Trump would win reelection, now saying that he will wait until the final results are tabulated.” - C.Post
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Thanks, Veterans!
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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington
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Vatican’s McCarrick report: Three popes looked the other way on sexual abuse claims
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“A long-awaited Vatican report detailing the Catholic Church’s institutional knowledge of sexual abuse allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and the church’s response, was released on Tuesday (Nov. 10).” - RNS
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“...it’s hard to have a nation or a rule of law or a culture when the major factions do not recognize each other’s legitimacy”
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“Will our election perpetuate and even intensify our divisions–with Republicans claiming Democrats stole the election, just as Democrats claimed that Republicans stole the election in 2016, with a ‘Resistance’ this time of the right–or might it usher in a new national mood that is tired of the constant conflict?” - Veith
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Southern Baptist leaders promote prayer and rule of law in response election
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“Election fraud is a serious matter. Baseless claims of fraud is too,” Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, tweeted Friday night. “To sort this out, we must be thorough, evidence-based, [and] follow federal [and] state laws. Clarity and certainty may take time….” - BPNews
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Conservative publication fact checks election fraud stories
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“All of these claims, with the exception of the absentee Georgia ballots (which seemed like honest confusion and could actually have hurt Joe Biden if true, given his general advantage in mailed-in ballots), were shared to bolster the claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. And all of them, with the exception of the claim that Pennsylvania reported a batch of ballots all for Biden, were false.
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