Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas had waged an unusually public campaign against the denomination’s demands for control.

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A country that protects its pluralism and presses its partners to protect theirs is not only living its ideals; it is protecting its future.

We hurt one another, we fail one another, but we still have to figure out how to live with one another.

The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kilometres southwest of Lugo. Until now, historians saw a simple rural church from the high Middle Ages, with one nave, a square east end and a smooth 18th-century front topped by a bell gable […]