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Community members in a Virginia county began praying the Lord’s Prayer together in unison during a school board meeting in August when a board member asked a woman not to pray publicly at the meeting.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the coastal nation of Morocco late Friday night, killing at least 2,681 people and leaving 2,501 injured.

"It was complete chaos." Brian Branco was with five co-workers on the morning of September 11, 2001. He and one other person in his group survived. Hear his story and others today, as we remember 9/11.

The leading tackler on a defense that led New Orleans to an opening week victory used his post-game news conference Sunday to read Scripture and testify of God's healing power during a medical scare with his four-year-old daughter.

Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said.

A year ago, The Economist urged readers not to bring their “whole selves” to work. While some corporate gurus suggest that we make work feel more like home, the authors beg to differ.   

Your professional self displays commitment to the job and eats lunch at a desk. Your whole self is planning the next holiday and binges ice cream on the sofa. Your professional self makes presentations to the board and says things like: “Let’s get the analytics team to kick the t[i]res on this.” Your whole self cannot operate a toaster and says things like: “Has anyone seen my socks?” Pretending to be someone you are not is not a problem; it’s essential. 

That description speaks to what lies at the heart of the modern re-definition of “authenticity.” 

Today is the only anniversary in American history known simply by a number. A few days ago, two more victims of the attack on the World Trade Center were identified through DNA technology. A total of 2,753 people were killed in the towers and planes, many of whom have yet to be identified. What are your emotions this morning? What would you like me to say on this hard day?

Let’s take a moment to reflect on three attributes of God that are especially relevant today.

John Schneider of the film The Dukes of Hazzard recently shared how his faith helped him deal with grief after his wife, veteran producer and actress Alicia Allain Schneider, passed away.

According to sources, assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night in a failed kidnapping attempt.

Police have arrested a man in Chicago, Illinois, who is suspected of beating a pastor to death inside her apartment last weekend.