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In 1805, New York made a deal. State officials granted taxpayer funds and a corporate charter to a private organization known as the Free School Society, which agreed in return to provide a free education to poor children in New York City. Over the next decades, the society became a precursor to modern-day charter school networks that are ...Read more

Q: Many Christian readers, fresh off their Easter Communion services, wrote to me to ask me about the actual Christian belief about the bread and wine turning into the body and blood of Christ. Thankfully, you don’t have to rely on a rabbi’s interpretation. C, from Walla Walla, Washington, helpfully wrote in with her understanding of this ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: A conference speaker addressed a large audience at a popular college campus about the effects of social media and asked the crowd to consider whether they felt jealousy toward others. To her surprise, a majority raised their hands. While she didn’t ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Many people call themselves Christians and hide under something called righteous indignation. What does this actually mean? I thought Christians were to love and not judge others. Why must people think that God wants to put restraints on those who believe differently than the self-righteous? – F.R...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Anger runs in my family, back several generations from what I’ve been told. As a Christian, this is overwhelming at times. When I see tempers lash out at others, it is crushing – particularly when I hear my children say, “Well, it is just in our family DNA!” Is there any hope to overcome ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I find myself doing an inner perspective of my life every year after Easter and promising myself that I will live a better life, refrain from sinful ways and declare myself cleansed once again. I was telling one of my church friends about my renewed commitment and she cautioned me about the sin of ...Read more

Nearly a thousand parishioners with ties to Ukraine gathered at a church in Hamtramck, Michigan, for services on Easter Sunday, celebrating the day Jesus rose from the dead while worrying about the war ravaging their home country.

The 9:30 a.m. Easter Mass at the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was conducted entirely in ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis met at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, shortly before the pontiff delivered a sermon urging political leaders to support vulnerable populations.

The meeting, announced by Vance’s office, marked the first between a U.S. vice president and the pope since 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: When I was a child I thought of Easter as the purity of spring, baby bunnies, and colored eggs. Now that I’m a parent and have children, I am amazed at their comprehension of what the true meaning of Easter is. Because I let them go to Sunday school with neighbors, they learned about the newness ...Read more