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Pop star Jon Bon Jovi is celebrating his endorsement of Kamala Harris by releasing a new music video that portrays a potential Kamala presidency as a “house of love.” On Friday, Jon Bon Jovi announced his endorsement of Kamala Harris, writing on social media: “I believe in the power of we, not of me. I’ve written a song reminding us that out of many, we are still one.” He posted an accompanying music video for his recent single “The People’s House” in which he and the chorus sing the refrain, “we are building this house of love.” The video puts...

A forensic profiler whose previous cases have included the Natalie Holloway disappearance and the O.J. Simpson double murder says Barack Obama is confessing to stealing the 2012 president election. “Obama appears to unconsciously confess on multiple occasions that in his secret fury he stole the 2012 presidential election – continuing his attacks on our nation,” Andrew G. Hodges, M.D., told WND in an assessment of Obama.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a coalition of Christian leaders committed to “promoting and producing resources for a modern reformation of the churches in doctrine, worship, and life, according to Scripture,” has recently reorganized “to tighten vision, enhance communication, and display a unified pan-Reformed vision and identity,” according to Robert Brady, a spokesman for the Alliance. Dr. Ligon Duncan has been named President and Chairman of the Alliance Council, Dr. Mark Dever is Vice-Chairman, and Dr. Philip Ryken will serve as Bible teacher on the radio and Internet broadcast known as Every Last Word. Joining them will be Rev. Richard...

Hinson, builder of megachurch, dies Preacher turned around the struggling First Methodist By RICHARD VARA Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle The Rev. William H. "Bill" Hinson, a nationally known preacher who presided over the growth of First United Methodist Church from a dwindling downtown congregation to a two-campus megachurch, has died. ADVERTISEMENT Hinson, who suffered a massive stroke Nov. 28, died at noon Sunday in Huntsville, Ala., with his family at his hospital bedside, said Ann Spears, a spokeswoman for First United Methodist Church. He was 68. "My immediate reaction was one of shock and great sadness, for a mighty man...

Presbyterians Reject Gay Ordination Plan By LARRY O'DELL ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) legislative assembly narrowly rejected a measure Friday to allow regional governing bodies to ordain gay clergy and lay officers. Under the 259-255 vote, the current interpretation of church law forbidding the ordination of gay clergy will remain binding on the church, including on the regional bodies, known as presbyteries. Conservative Presbyterians had warned that a vote for gay ordination at the denomination's national meeting could cause the largest split in the church since the Civil War, when slavery split the church into...

RETIRED BISHOP BLASTS RENEWAL GROUPS Retired Bishop Dale White made a blistering attack on renewal groups within United Methodism, alleging that they have a “polarizing style” and “intimidating tactics” that are “calculated to spread fear” and “impugn the motives of others.”   He warned against their “dirty tricks politics” and “right-wing ideology.”  White made his remarks a First United Methodist Church in Schenectady, New York on October 26 as part of its Carl Lecture Series.  The bishop named the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), Good News, and the Confessing Movement among the groups that he was criticizing.  “They aren’t...