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LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature’s Education Committee has been trying for a month to get one of its packages of education proposals out of committee and onto the floor. But the past few executive sessions have been tense, and committee members remain divided.

6 days ago | wordandway.org | Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

(RNS) — The mayor of Toms River, New Jersey, says he has a plan to revitalize the town’s riverfront and to create a new park for local families who live nearby. He’s found the perfect spot — three underused marinas and a large parcel of land with a great parking lot. There’s just one problem. A local Episcopal church sits on the 11-acre property and has no interest in selling. Instead, church leaders want to build a shelter for the homeless on the property to expand their ministry in the community.

6 days ago | wordandway.org | Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church on Thursday. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.

6 days ago | wordandway.org | Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

While in Branson, Missouri, to attend the annual convention of the Evangelical Press Association, I decided to do a bit of sightseeing and visit not one but two Trump stores. I promise I wasn’t trying to get an early start on my Christmas shopping! Having attended and watched Donald Trump rallies and MAGA events over the last several years, I had a pretty good expectation of what I would see. Or at least I thought I did.

6 days ago | wordandway.org | Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

WASHINGTON (RNS) — As the sun rose over the U.S. Capitol on the last Sunday in April, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, wearing a gold cross necklace, sat next to Sen. Cory Booker on the building’s stone steps. The two looked around quietly for a moment, awaiting confirmation that the livestream of their “sit-in” — a daylong effort designed to push back against the Republican-led budget proposal and actions by President Donald Trump’s administration — had begun.