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The story of Jonah reminds us that God is the God of second chances. While our world cancels, God restores. While others ...

The issues contested in the second-story courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse may seem long settled, but they still divide ...

Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

The orca, also known as the killer whale, is one of the most fearsome predators of the ocean. With incredible speed, strength, and intelligence, orcas dominate the seas, preying on everything from ...

Throughout his career, you see the outlines of a man burdened by the myth he helped build. A man who stared down America’s worst tendencies and tried to warn us, only to watch them metastasize. And in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Smithsonian Institution Photographed by Watson Davis The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” The Scopes trial began ...