EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is resigning from the post after what he called “unrelenting attacks” on him and his family.

Pruitt was criticized for some of his behavior and spending while working as the EPA administrator. Some of those expenses included: travel expenses, where he flew first class; and a $43,000 phone booth in his office.

He also rented an apartment below market value from the wife of an energy lobbyist and reportedly tried to use his influence to secure a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife.

Pruitt said the complaints against him are “unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us,” referring to his family.

EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler has been appointed new EPA administrator in Pruitt’s place. He takes the post Monday.

“Within the Agency, Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this,” President Donald Trump tweeted following the announcement of Pruitt’s resignation.

“There was no final straw,” Trump later told reporters. “Scott is a terrific guy. He came to me and he said, ‘Look, I have such great confidence in the administration. I don’t want to be a distraction.’”

During his time as EPA administrator, Pruitt helped the U.S. pull out of the Paris climate accord, ended President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan and cut out government red tape within his…

After 14 years at the helm of the multi-campus Life Center Assembly of God church in Tacoma, Washington, Pastor Dean Curry has been removed from his position due allegations of physical misconduct with a former church employee, church officials announced on Sunday.

Curry denied the claim in a report from The News Tribune and told his church that it would make him an adulterer if it were true. He insists that he has never been unfaithful to his wife.

“My relationship with Assembly of God has been fractured,” Curry, 50, told church members at a “family meeting” Sunday. “This woman accused me of behavior that would have amounted to adultery if it were true.”

He refused to identify his accuser to the congregation but said leaders at the Assemblies of God’s Northwest District Council did not give him an opportunity to defend himself and remains confident that an ongoing investigation of the claim would prove that “I have been falsely and wrongly accused.”

Greg Stern, senior director of operations and finance with the Assemblies of God’s Northwest District Council and who is authorized to discuss Curry’s removal, was not immediately available…

Many churches spend a large amount of time and energy on making their services appealing to their congregations and potential churchgoers. According to a new study, however, a perfectly in tune praise band or a preacher who uses engaging sermon illustrations are not the primary things that keep people coming back.

What the LifeWay Research study found was that churchgoers stay with a church ultimately based on the church’s theology.

According to the study, more than half of the 1,010 Protestant churchgoers who were surveyed said they would consider leaving their church if the church’s core beliefs changed.

Despite the tensions that issues like worship music, style of preaching, and the structure of the service can create, the biggest factor in a churchgoer’s decision to leave a church was not one of these issues.

The survey also found that the majority of churchgoers stay at their church for an extended amount of time, despite laments about church-hopping in today’s culture.

Thirty-five percent reported being at their church between 10 and 24 years, 27 percent reported attending their church for 25 years or more, 21 percent reported attending their church less than five years, while 17 percent said they have been at their church between five and nine years.

“Most church members have been at their church longer than their pastor,” said Scott McConnell,…

The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, David Platt, recently stated that churches in the United States are supposed to focus on Jesus Christ and not nationalism.

Preaching at the Virginia-based McLean Bible Church on the Sunday before Independence Day, Platt focused his sermon on the issues of “God and government” and faith and freedom.”

“If we’re not careful we can … almost unknowingly think about the government the way the world thinks about the government instead of the way God’s Word thinks about government. In a similar way, we can have more of an American idea of freedom than a biblical idea of freedom,” Platt, who is pastor teacher at Mclean Bible Church, said.

During his message, Platt spoke that while he is “incredibly thankful for the political freedom that we enjoy in this country,” there is nevertheless “a much, much greater freedom that we are celebrating in this gathering.”

A farmer who was pinned inside his water-filled tractor cab for more than three hours and nearly drowned says it was God – not luck – that kept him alive.

Eldon Cooper of Clarkridge, Ark., was preparing to meet his newlywed wife at a Bible study one night in February when he decided to examine an earthen dam on his property before he left, AgDaily.com reported. It had been raining, and he wanted to make sure it was holding.    

Riding his tractor near the edge, tragedy struck.

“I started backing up to head home, something I have done 150 times, probably,” Eldon told AgDaily. “Well, for some reason my rear tire got too close to the edge, and the edge on the pond side gave way, dropping the rear of the tractor about 18 inches or so towards the pond. It stopped before going over the edge, as I dropped the bucket to the ground.”

Soon, the tractor tipped over into the pond, and his cab filled with water. With mud and a huge machine all around, Eldon thought he would die. He had a small pocket of air, but it wouldn’t last long.

“You can imagine what I was thinking. I am going to sit here and asphyxiate on my own air,” Eldon said. “They are going to find me in here and this is going to be my tomb.”

He started praying.

“I needed that peace that passes all understanding, so I asked for it,” Eldon told the website. “You know what;…