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  • The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

    December 31, 2023 - 3:31 PM

    Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia.

  • Carlton Pearson, influential Oklahoma megachurch founder who rejected hell, dies at age 70

    November 20, 2023 - 6:36 PM

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said Monday.

  • Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How 'the weirdo factor' rocked '76

    April 16, 2023 - 3:07 PM

    PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.

  • Doyle keeps 'Untamed' conversation going in journal, podcast

    January 05, 2022 - 12:59 PM

    Glennon Doyle hates giving advice. Nor does she want to be referred to as a self-help guru or any other woo-woo spiritual title. The author of best-selling memoirs including “Untamed” says she just wants to help others find the freedom she found “untaming” herself.

  • Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021

    December 31, 2021 - 12:11 PM

    They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody war in Iraq.

  • A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019

    October 27, 2021 - 2:20 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37. Last June, a children’s book she’d been working on was published posthumously and soon topped the picture-book bestseller lists.

  • Pat Robertson steps down as host of long-running '700 Club'

    October 01, 2021 - 12:45 PM

    NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half-century running the “700 Club” on daily TV, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on Friday.

  • Organ experts try to get the music going again after flood

    August 07, 2021 - 8:04 AM

    GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. (AP) — David Hufford learned that an extreme storm had flooded a suburban Detroit church with more than 7 feet of water, striking the boiler, electrical system, elevator and more.

  • Rick Warren retiring as lead pastor at California megachurch

    June 07, 2021 - 4:11 PM

    SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has announced his retirement after 42 years of leading Saddleback Church in Southern California. A search for his successor will be launched this week.

  • Marvin Sapp on new album and dealing with pandemic at church

    October 09, 2020 - 8:39 AM

    LOS ANGELES - Even though Marvin Sapp finished recording his new album before the coronavirus rocked the world, the gospel singer believes his prophetic message of enduring transition and change still resonates during the pandemic.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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