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Here are seven notable historical events that happened on Valentine’s Day.

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The Bible doesn’t talk about ethnic diversity in local churches a lot.But that’s not the theological gut-punch Stuckey thinks it is ...

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The initial mistake was embracing the anti-nationalist philosophy that Soviet communism had implanted. It metastasized in the ...