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August 19 is the birthday of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). On this day in 1886, a small group gathered at a gristmill along Barney Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee—not far from the Coker Creek stop on the well-traveled Unicoi Turnpike. On that summer Thursday, Richard Green Spurling preached a sermon on God’s church […]

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The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain, two days after removing “Duck Dynasty”-related products from its shelves, said Sunday it was putting them back – and apologized to fans of the reality series. Cracker Barrel began yanking Duck Dynasty-related items from its stores on Friday in the wake of patriarch Phil Robertson’s inflammatory comments to GQ magazine […]

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On August 19, 1886 a group of believers gathered in a millhouse on the banks of Barney Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee for a meeting. From that inauspicious beginning, the movement that became the Church of God was born. Eight willing vessels extended to one another the right hand of fellowship and formed the Christian […]