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As the Season of Lent rushes toward inevitability, scripture calls us to play the old game of Truth or Consequences—no, not the game show from the 1960s, but the old-time religion game of suffering ...

At an emotional hearing where he was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for attempting to murder his wife and children in their Kansas home, a sobbing former Crossroads Christian Church children's ...