Professor of american religious history at portland seminary. Shes also. 2022 to 2023 public fellow at Public Religion Research institute. And her research has been supported by the Louisville Institute in the wabash center, teaching in theology and religion. Her first book, gender pentecostal revivalism making a female ministry in the early 20th century, won new rma. The journal of the society for pentecostal studies twice and 16 book award paines work analyzing religion, politics and popular as appeared in the Washington Post nbc news religion service and christianity today. Shes also cohost of weird religion, a podcast about religion, Popular Culture and rock that doesnt roll a podcast about christian rock. I would like to remind everyone, please silence your phones after leah a talk. We will have a question and session if you would then come up to this microphone here, please join me in welcoming you. Thank you oops. Oh, thats right. Well i, i, i googled what you do at. An author m
Market, which some say is raising concerns about economic growth. Today when all was said and done, the Dow Jones Industrial fell 100 points to 23,358. The nasdaq fell ten and the s p 500 dropped six. For the week, the dow and the s p 500 reported their first twoweek losing streak since august. The nasdaq, though, was higher. With tax reform on the minds of investors, the Senate Finance comme voted along strict party lines late last night to advance the gop proposal. But a Heated Exchange erupted at the end of the hearing with ohio democrat Sherrod Brown and utah republican orrin hatch, the chairman, arguing over who really benefits. This tax cut is really not for the middle class. Its for the rich. The whole thing about higher wages, we know companies dont give away higher wages. Just because they have more money. Corporations are sitting on a lot of money now, theyre sitting on a lot of profits now, i dont see wages going up. Spare us the bank shots, spare us the sarcasm and the sati
Whats being called the storm of the century crippled new york city cutting power and plunging manhattan into darkness. More than 13 feet of water wushds over the seawahl in battery park, rushing into tunnels and subways. It could leave the city paralyzed for days. When do you expect the subway system to be up and running again . Four or five days i think. At this point we dont know. If you had to guess, con ed and the subways, three, four days and i would be happy if thats what it turns out to be. The mta reporting that seven tunnels have been flooded announced in our 108 years our employees have never faced like a challenge like the one that confronts us now. 215 patients were evacuated from new York Hospitals when backup yen raters failed. Queens, firefighters battled a blaze that consumed 50 homes. Meanwhile, a crane mangled from heavy winds dangled 80 stories above midtown, manhattan. President obama has signed major disaster declarations for new york city, long island and new jers
Hello and welcome to sportsday im jessica creighton. Heres whats coming up in the programme. Irelands world cup dream is over, thrashed by a dazzling denmark in dublin. A dream comes true for mo farah. Britains most decorated track and field star receives his knighthood from the queen. And Roger Federer closes in on a place in the atp world tour finals in london. Roger federer has defeated a battling Alexander Zverev. Good evening. We have a busy programme ahead, but well start with football where the republic of irelands world cup dream is over. They were thrashed in the second leg of their play off qualifer against demark 5 1. Our correspondentjoe wilson is in dublin for us. Joe, a great start from ireland but they couldnt hold on against a brilliant denmark tonight. Yes, its funny, i guess we are reflecting really the republic of ireland scoring too soon and we wondered if they would score a goal. Being defensively strong has been the reason for their success in getting to this stag
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