Joel Osteen, bestselling motivational author and evangelical pastor of America’s fastest-growing megachurch, was among a small group that included Mormon Sen. Mike Lee, to meet privately with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, this week.
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Theologian John Piper responded to Time magazine’s cover story on Laverne Cox, a transgender and star of the Netflix drama “Orange Is the New Black,” explaining from the Bible that the genitalia is a revelation of God’s design and that gender is not a matter of human choice.
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This week is Computex, a huge computer show happening in Taiwan, which means lots of PC makers will be unveiling their back-to-school lineups, if they haven’t already. HP, for instance, just unveiled a boatload of PCs, including budget and mid-range…from Engadget RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1pJtCx7
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Verizon is finally going to give you a discount for off-contract phones. Starting April 17th, customers of Big Red are going to be able to bring their own off-contract devices onto shared MORE Everything plans at a discount. No longer will they have to pay a subsidy fee for a subsidy they’re not using. Plans at or under 8GB will see a smartphone add-on reduction of $10 (bringing the fee to $30/month), while those with data allotments of 10GB or higher will see their fee sliced from $40 down to $25 per smartphone.
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You may have a good excuse to stay up late tonight. A rare total lunar eclipse, where the Earth casts a shadow over the entire Moon, is due to start at 12:53AM Eastern. Our celestial neighbor should be completely enshrouded by 3:06AM, producing an…
A petition posted on a White House website seeking legal recognition for “non-binary genders” has garnered over 100,000 signatures. The petition was created in March and has surpassed the 100,000 mark well in advance of its April 20 deadline. With the benchmark reached, according to the Obama administration’s “We The People” website, the White House must issue an official response to the petition.
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The Indiana University honor student had a cool million in the bag. Unfortunately, pronunciation turned out to be his Achilles heel. See his cringeworthy guess.
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ABC will be streaming its live coverage of the Oscars this weekend for the first time ever, but there are some important caveats. First, the awards show will only be viewable through Watch ABC on the web or through ABC’s iOS and Android apps, both of…
Apparently, Freescale didn’t think the diminutive Kinetis KL02 was tiny enough — it just unveiled the KL03, the new world’s smallest ARM microcontroller. At 1.6mm by 2mm, the Cortex-M0+ chip is 15 percent smaller than its ancestor. That’s miniscule…
