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In January 2023, Ministry Watch reported on the arrest of a worship leader and music teacher—Joseph “Kade” Abbott, 27—for sexual misconduct against a 14-year-old girl. Authorities charged him with three counts of sexual assault. According to his attorney, last week he agreed to plead guilty to all three counts. Apostolic Christian Academy in Maryville, Tennessee / Facebook Abbot taught at Apostolic Christian Academy, held on the property of First Apostolic Church in Maryville, Tenn. The victim was a student at the academy, and the two met weekly one-on-one during school hours. They also participated in the same group trip to...

Pollster Frank Luntz tried on Friday to explain to an oblivious CNN host why Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support former President Donald Trump. While the reasons should be obvious — Trump helped repeal Roe v. Wade, staunchly supports religious liberty, and has been an ally to Christians — host Brianna Keilar just couldn’t figure it out. Indeed, in her opinion, Evangelicals should revile Trump because — wait for it — he’s an imperfect human being who’s said and done imperfect things. For example, when asked in 2015 about whether he’d ever asked God for forgiveness, he essentially said no. “I’m not...

Embattled megachurch pastor Steven Smith will resign as senior leader of Immanuel Baptist Church following months of controversy and tension at how he handled a child abuse case in his church. Smith was under fire for learning of sexual abuse allegations against former Children’s Director Patrick Stephen, some of which were made before he became pastor and others which were made after. While the church notified law enforcement and the state’s abuse hotline, they did not disclose it to congregation members, including parents whose children attended Stephen’s classes. Stephen was charged with felony sexual assault for molesting children while they...

Twenty-first in a series of clips from the 2000 Jesus Christ Superstar film. With Rik Mayall as Herod.

Michelle Obama has never expressed any interest in running for president and this month her office made clear that was fully behind Joe Biden's run for reelection. Yet the idea that the former first lady could be plotting to parachute in as an alternative to the 81-year-old president and rescue the Democratic Party won't die. Perhaps until now.

Downtown Los Angeles has been described as 'third world' after shocking footage revealed a homeless encampment with open fires in the street and trash-covered sidewalks. The startling video, posted to X by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, shows dozens of homeless people sitting and standing on filthy sidewalks on the corner of San Pedro Street and 6th Street in the Skid Row neighborhood of LA. Some are seen standing around an open fire in the street, just moments away from the Midnight Mission, a $17 million center for the homeless.

Explanation: Discovered by accident, this manuscript page provides graphical insight to astronomy in medieval times, before the Renaissance and the influence of Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo. The intriguing page is from lecture notes on astronomy compiled by the monk Magister Wolfgang de Styria before the year 1490. The top panels clearly illustrate the necessary geometry for a lunar (left) and solar eclipse in the Earth-centered Ptolemaic system. At lower left is a diagram of the Ptolemaic view of the Solar System with text at the upper right to explain the movement of the planets according...

Conservatives are angry that Gallagher’s poorly timed resignation will leave the district without representation for the better part of a year.U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher’s decision to leave Congress — and leave his fellow Republicans and his Wisconsin constituents in the lurch — isn’t sitting well in conservative corners.... Extremely Bad Timing Gallagher announced last month that he would not seek reelection to the seat he first won in the Trump-led red wave of 2016. Last week, he stunned Republicans in announcing that his last day would be April 19. His departure alone would effectively leave already razor-thin Republican control of...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on federal bribery, money laundering and other corruption charges in 2014, has completed his 10-year sentence and is asking a federal judge to restore his rights to carry a gun and vote. But prosecutors said Thursday that the New Orleans-based judge has no authority to restore Nagin‘s federal firearms rights, and that it’s up to the state of Texas, where he now lives, to decide on his voting privileges. Nagin, 67, recently filed a court motion in New Orleans, noting that his federal prison time and supervision were officially over on...

The new rage in the "city that never sleeps," seems to be "sucker punching" women on the streets of New York City. A woman named Halley McGookin posted a video on TikTok after she was attacked. It was one of a dozen similar videos of assaults on women near Union Square in recent days. "I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face," she said. "Oh my God, it hurts so bad." A day later, Dulche Pichardo was walking on the sidewalk of Grand Avenue near Dean Street when a stranger delivered a...

The advocacy group Republican Voters Against Trump announced a new six-figure campaign highlighting former Vice President Mike Pence‘s refusal to endorse former President Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. The 15-second digital ad is set to run in five battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, while the billboard campaign will be featured in Phoenix, Atlanta, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. “This is someone who worked with Donald Trump all four years of his presidency. He saw Donald Trump up close and personal every single day,” said John Conway, the group’s director of strategy, in an...

BREAKING: NY Governor Hochul asked to leave wake for slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller. Officers clapped as she left, and one man was heard screaming, "GET HER OUTTA HERE!"

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ main medical arm, is calling for the nations of the world to sign a new Pandemic Accord by May. Critics claim that the accord will further undermine the authority of nation-states in dealing with their own healthcare crises and put an inordinate amount of power in the hands of a globalist entity. A letter signed by dozens of former heads of state and other assorted diplomats, including the U.K.’s Tony Blair and three former presidents of the UN General Assembly, is urging nations to quickly agree to the new accord prior to...

Trump Releases 2024 Easter Message

The murder of NYC Officer Jonathan Diller has struck a chord with everyone. Here was a young dad and husband, bravely facing the tough streets of a city that lately seems to throw more shade at its cops than backing them up, while letting the bad guys take center stage. It’s like New York City has done a full 360 back to the rough and tumble ’80s when the crooks had the upper hand until Mayor Giuliani came along and got things back on track. Today’s officials are doing the opposite. They’re handing the keys of the city over to...

The last stand of Hamas could lie in the Gazan city of Rafah, where the terror group’s last four battalios remain. The only force stopping Israel from completing Hamas’s destruction is President Biden. Israel faces a dilemma: will it heed Joe Biden’s concerns about the military operation, or do the right thing and eliminate its nemesis? Biden is pulling out all the stops, going so far as to threaten Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying in recent a televised interview that an invasion of Rafah would be crossing a “red line.” Biden has not used this significant phrase with Iran, North...

A presumed mountain lion sighted this week walking atop a fence in South San Francisco turned out to be a large gray cat, police reported. “We were able to confirm the Big Cat was not a mountain lion,” the South San Francisco Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page. “We are happy to report there is no potential threat for the neighborhood.” The animal was spotted by a home security camera early Tuesday morning walking along the fence line separating two homes on the 200 block of Mansfield Drive. The photo of the cat was posted as...

ROME, March 12 (Reuters) - An Italian company has conducted what it says is the first test of magnetic levitation (maglev) transport on an existing railway track, a technology that has the potential to reduce costs and energy use as the industry seeks more efficient systems. IronLev, a high-tech firm headquartered in the northern Italian town of Treviso, showcased a video of the test at the LetExpo2024 trade fair in the Veneto region on Tuesday

VIDEOGood Friday wasn't such a Good Friday for Nicole Wallace because that's when it suddenly dawned on her that President Trump keeps winning, winning, WINNING despite all the politically weaponized lawfare thrown at him. It was at that moment of realization that Nicole's frustrations boiled over into an epic meltdown. Oh, and her fellow MSNBC guests, including Michael Luttig whose Trump ballot denial scheme was UNANIMOUSLY laughed out of the Supreme Court, shared in her deep funereal TDS grief.

An appeals court in Texas upheld an injunction by a lower court that prevents the state from investigating parents who allow their children under 18 to receive "gender-affirming care." In 2022, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to investigate parents who allow their children to have transgender surgeries or hormone blockers, following state Attorney General Ken Paxton calling it child abuse, according to The Hill. A judge ruled against the statewide injunction and on Friday an appeals court upheld it, as first reported by Reuters.