Recently, a friend sent me a text after returning from church with his family. He had been a member of the congregation for two months and up to that point had been enjoying the sermons immensely. But then something strange happened that Sunday morning. One of the pastors, a young black man, decided to preach […]
Such is the plaint, often, of people who are suffering. Rabbi Levi Meier offers an approach that is so direct and obvious that it is virtually never thought of. The obvious, often, is missed precisely for staring us in the face. Meier is a clinical psychologist and hospital chaplain in Los Angeles, author of “Ancient […]
A top Anglican Communion official warns about western progressives and simultaneously highlights funds available from Episcopal Church-supported agencies. Source: Anglican Alliance: Backdoor for Episcopal Church Funds into Africa? – Juicy Ecumenism
God has a longstanding habit of calling those he loves into difficult situations. He called Abraham to leave his home and wander around in foreign lands among strangers who, as far as he knew, might kill him on sight. Source: When God Calls You to Discomfort
It’s time for me to sit down for a nice meal of crow. A year ago, I wrote a commentary here at Religion News Service that tried to explain why Donald Trump had gathered some support in the Republican primary from “values voters” and “conservative Christians.” “The one aspect that draws people to Trump is […]
Welcome back to our series on the relationship between Christianity and masculinity, which aims to explore the historical and cultural factors that have made women statistically more likely to be committed to the religion than men. In our last post, we weighed one of the more popular explanations for this gender gap: that the theology, […]
Why racial justice and reconciliation are now core for the movement. Evangelicals are sensitive to what we call “God moments”—when circumstances fall together in a way that suggests God is at work in our lives in a fresh way. Mainstream white evangelicals have experienced collective “God moments.” In the 1970s, few churches concerned themselves with […]
In a profile of Hillary Clinton’s religious life, America Magazine, a “national weekly Catholic magazine,” says Mrs. Clinton is a “lifelong Methodist who has learned to keep her personal beliefs hidden.” Unfortunately for Methodists and Mrs. Clinton alike, her state religious beliefs also contradict her abortion agenda. Source: Hillary Clinton’s Religion Contradicts Her Abortion Stance
Source: Christians in Hillary’s Crosshairs | The American Spectator
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive,” said Blaise Pascal. Indeed, attraction not reason is the engine of the LGBTQ movement. Source: 7 LGBTQ Contradictions
