abwe want to thank you for being here and also thank you for being a sponsor without individual donations and the support from our community and around the nation southern festival of books would not be t possible it would not be able to continue to be free for you so we want to urge you to visit the website and give as you can and thank you for being here. You are really in for a treat this afternoon. The book that we have here and will be talking to the author david katie who am getting ready to introduce religion of fear the true story of the church of the god of the Union Assembly. What a story it links into tennessee in 19 other congregations across the nation. Cady ably juxtaposes the bizarre tale of the church of god of the Union Assembly with contemporaneous history illustrating how this power mad yet charismatic leader came to rise without anyone noticing anything out of the ordinary. In a part of the world where pentecostal churches are common. The kind of sum it up, heres a
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And god bless our special relationship. [applause] thank you. [applause] House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy held a News Conference after his speech to the knesset. He was joined by other congressional leaders including steny hoyer. This is just under an hour. To finish, im not sure really is job he really started because it is starting something to shut down the borders. I dont see any movement on that. I dont see any movement on getting more oil to the Strategic Reserves that he took out. I dont see anything with the prices going down, they are going up. Announcer we leaving this to go allies life to israel. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy holds undo News Conference in jerusalem. He is addressing the israeli knesset. Ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure to invite Speaker Mccarthy and speaker two sign this declaration of friendship. [applause] [laughter] [indiscernible] can we have another handshake, please . [laughter] [applause] ok and now Speaker Mccarthy will deliver a few remarks and tak
The yemeni shore is being shelled at those going to there are not only negotiation platforms, which is why they are already using Ballistic Missiles with a hint, if the bombing does not stop, israel will collect ships, despite warnings from the state department we will strike back at the coalition. Already the port of eilad is paralyzed on the waiting list, a bulgarian container ship is captured, three more ships are damaged, the houthis ultimatum, either give the gas food and medicine, or we will continue. The blows are thrown together marked on the maps, spilling the gate from the stern story as one of. A new chapter is unfolding in this terrible conflict, as he claims, approximately 2 3 of the victims are civilians, this is truly unprecedentedly staggering, but it turns out that the episit is sobering in the cnn report key, maybe this is going back to where. It started, because he made his name reporting on the invasion of iraq, when his great war reporters, starting with peter arne
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