Vol. 35, No. 24
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2020 News of the Year: Pandemic

News Of The Year | Who could have predicted on Jan. 1, 2020, that a coronavirus invisible to the human eye would change life for nearly every person on the planet and kill more than a million people?

2020’s church divide

Churches | A pandemic and national controversies have splintered churches and taken a toll on pastors struggling to hold them together

2020 News of the Year: Politics

News Of The Year | At 2020’s dawn, the United States was in the middle of impeachment

2020 News of the Year: Tension

News Of The Year | The coronavirus pandemic dominated 2020’s news cycle heading into

2020 News of the Year: Deaths

| Year 2020 included the deaths of notable politicians, academics, t

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12.11.20 Culture Friday, Mank, and bringing home the cows

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A conversation with Carolyn Weber

This week, hear Warren Smith's conversation with the author of two powerful memoirs - Sex and the City of God and Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Weber.

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