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Congratulations to Jim Schaap, regular contributor to The Twelve. "The Story of Chief Standing Bear," a four-part series on "Small Wonders," his weekly feature on Siouxland Public Media took first place in the Audio-Documentary category/medium market -- radio. Listen to it here. https://www.kwit.org/post/standing-bear-story-omnibus

“Things were so hectic, people didn’t really have a chance to say, ‘Hey, I’m hurting.' It took time. With PTSD and moral injury, when that tempo goes down, those things tend to come to the top."

NPR interviews Beth Barr, church historian, on her new book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became the Gospel Truth,

In 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students were kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group. Some have escaped and some were rescued but 111 are still missing.

Kristin Kobes DuMez writes autobiographically on the messages she received growing up about women's leadership in the church

Philip Yancey offers three points to better and more civil conversations.

These bills are not addressing any real problem, and they're not being requested by constituents. It is an effort driven by national far-right organizations to score political points by sowing fear and hate.

Carol Bechtel writes, "Hope, as it turns out, is amazingly elastic. By God's grace, it will stretch."

Franklin Graham cites the Parable of the Good Samaritan to encourage his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.