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Susie Larson, host of Live the Promise is coming to Sioux Falls. Join the LIVE studio audience at Faith Baptist Fellowship (57th and Minnesota Avenue) on Tuesday, June 28th, 3:00 – 4:00pm (please arrive a few minutes early).
FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) – The Army has dedicated a memorial garden at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in honor of the 306 chaplains and chaplain assistants who gave their lives in service to God and country. A wall of remembrance includes the names of the 294 chaplains and 12 chaplain assistants who perished in conflicts [...]
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) – A South Dakota church is on the list of 15 winners of the 2011 Department of Defense Freedom Award. St. John’s Lutheran Church in Yankton is being honored for backing their pastor’s chaplaincy in Afghanistan. Rev. Dave Gunderson nominated his congregation after returning last month from a year of service with [...]
IDAHO (ChristianPost) – The U S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard arguments on a 2010 decision to prohibit an Idaho charter school from using the Bible in western civilization class. Attorney David Cortman of the Alliance Defense Fund asked the court to throw out the ban. He said, “The government’s hyperactive censorship [...]
WASHINGTON (NRB) – The Federal Communications Commission has announced plans to remove all traces of the Fairness Doctrine from its federal code. The Fairness Doctrine was introduced in 1949 in an effort to promote fair and subjective content on broadcast programs. Broadcasters were required to present multiple sides of controversial issues in a way that [...]
UNDATED (FR) – The Guinness book of World Records has named 90-year old Ida Mae Cumbest as the world’s longest-serving church organist. She has been the organist and pianist at Caswell Springs United Methodist Church in Moss Point Mississippi for 69 years. She offers advice to others about being good at what you do…”I think [...]
Listen to a special interview with Go Fish on Wednesday, June 8th on Faith 1270 from noon – 1 pm on Connecting Faith with Neil Stavem.
UNDATED (ChristianPost) -More than 9 in 10 Americans believe in God. But a new Gallup Poll also found that the number of nonbelievers has risen from one percent in 1944 to seven percent today. The percent of Americans who affirm their belief in God has decreased slightly from 96% in 1944 to 92% today. Those [...]
BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) – The Louisiana House has voted 91-0 to have a Ten Commandments monument placed on the grounds of the state Capitol. The bill requires that the inscription be the same as that used on a Ten Commandments monument at the Texas Capitol that was allowed under a 2005 Supreme Court ruling. [...]
