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Missouri Pastor Insists Youth 'Book Burn' Event Is Not What You Think

2 years 7 months ago
A church in Lebanon, Missouri, recently came under fire for promoting a youth-led bonfire in which participants will "burn books and ungodly artifacts." This being Missouri, people interpreted that to mean the church would host a Nazi-style book burn. The church's Facebook post about the burning-book bonfire has drawn 533 shares, most of them incredulous.
Monica Obradovic

Congenital syphilis rates are soaring, but resources to stem infections are lacking

2 years 7 months ago

States are seeing an alarming surge in cases of congenital syphilis, a preventable infection that can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death — or lifelong complications such as blindness or deafness. Congenital syphilis, which occurs when a pregnant mother infected with the sexually transmitted infection syphilis passes it on to her fetus, disproportionately affects Black and […]

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Nada Hassanein

Coloring STL

2 years 7 months ago

St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in […]

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Patrick

Dave And Marla Thomas On Mental Illness, Fame And "Loving Beyond Reason"

2 years 7 months ago
ALTON - Dave and Marla Thomas may have Grammys hanging on their wall, but they’re normal people who, like all of us, must cope with the extraordinary, devastating and mundane parts of love. In their family, that includes navigating their relationship with adult children with severe mental illness. And because Dave is a part of the famous a capella gospel group Take 6, they’ve done all of this while in the spotlight. Now, the couple is working to make that fight easier for other families. “Mental illness kicked the door to my house open and snatched out what was most valuable: two of my three children,” Marla said. “The decision platform that has to deal with the things that are most sensitive in our family is one that we landed on ... I didn’t choose this. I’m responding to it. But I’m responding to it responsibly and in truth and transparency.” Dave and Marla met in the second grade and became high school sweethearts.

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