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Supreme Court Ruling Proves Once Again That Religion And Education Are Inseparable

June 27, 2022 admin

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Maine’s policy of allowing parents to use school vouchers for religious schools was not a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the national government from establishing a state religion. In a rare moment of principle, Chief Justice John Roberts rightly asserted…

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By Catering To Rick Warren, The Southern Baptist Convention Subverts The Bible To Social Fads

June 24, 2022 admin

For seven years, scandals and public rifts have rocked the declining Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The spectacle of division and embarrassment continued at the just-concluded annual meeting of Baptists in Anaheim. Now, for the first time, the establishment class of the largest and ostensibly conservative protestant denomination in America is visibly divided against itself. Albert…

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New Thomas Jefferson Biography Clarifies Confusions About The Most Misrepresented Founding Father

June 13, 2022 admin

Thomas Jefferson is the most enigmatic of the American Founding Fathers. The author of the Declaration of Independence, he is sometimes called the “Author of America.” As a son of the Enlightenment and the American founding, he is claimed by many sides. And as Thomas Kidd reminds us in his splendid new biography, we still…

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Seattle Catholic Church’s Homosexual Event Reflects Rome’s Chaotic Messages On Sexuality

June 10, 2022 admin

A prominent parish in the Archdiocese of Seattle is holding an interfaith Zoom event this weekend with the Santa Marta Center, an Anglican emergency shelter for LGBT youth and young adults in El Salvador. The shelter is funded by the United Nations and a New York-based LGBT nonprofit that gets most of its funding from…

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The Southern Baptist Convention Must Respond To Reports Of Abuse With Full Transparency

June 3, 2022 admin

There is no question that the Southern Baptist Convention is facing a moment of reckoning. The SBC is a free association of churches, and trust is its connective tissue. The release of the Guidepost Solutions report on the Executive Committee’s response to Sexual Abuse Allegations has revealed horrifying accounts of broken trust. It is clear…

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A Guide To Aging Gracefully That’s Actually Graceful

May 27, 2022 admin

If there’s something today that people fear more than an agonizingly painful death, it’s old age. All around, people well past middle age continue to strive and assert themselves in the same way they did when younger. They don’t retreat from the spotlight, but jealously guard it. They stubbornly refuse to recognize that they just…

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Turkey: Archaeologists discover massive underground complex which likely sheltered persecuted Christians

May 19, 2022 admin

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – Archaeologists in southeast Turkey have uncovered a gigantic 4-million-square-foot underground city that probably served as a refuge for persecuted Christians in the second and third centuries AD, Church Leaders reports. Known as Matiate (“city of caves”), the complex in the Midyat district of Mardin province was…

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Miscarriage Is Not At All Morally Equivalent To Abortion, And Anyone Who Thinks So Is Wildly Ignorant

May 9, 2022 admin

After a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked early this week, abortion supporters have come out in full force to denounce the potential decision. One of the worst takes of these abortion supporters has been to make abortions and miscarriages morally equivalent. Here’s a Twitter thread from Alex Falcone, a…

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In ‘The Northman,’ Director Robert Eggers Explores The Depths Of Human Depravity

April 27, 2022 admin

Robert Eggers’ latest film, “The Northman,” solidifies his standing as one of the most interesting young directors and writers around. His films would be unique in any era, but they truly stand out as something special in the current film landscape, even if they are disturbing. Eggers’ films have a distinct aesthetic that makes for…

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How To Smear Christianity Without Really Trying

April 22, 2022 admin

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristen Kobes du Mez, takes two approaches to begging one very large question. The first approach is to handle Christian theology with selective dexterity. The second is to represent white evangelicals as bigots. As a practical matter, younger readers struggling…

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Mark Wahlberg On ‘Tough Grace,’ Mel Gibson, And The Holy Week Premiere Of ‘Father Stu’

April 8, 2022 admin

Reached in a phone interview, Mark Wahlberg, known for action blockbusters like “Uncharted” and “Planet of the Apes,” said a significant gap separates his new biopic “Father Stu,” in theaters nationwide on April 13, from other entries in the inspirational genre. “I don’t know if you’ve seen a lot of faith-based movies, but I have,”…

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Why Are So Many Kids Rejecting Christianity? Look At Their Parents

March 28, 2022 admin

The Cultural Research Center (CRC) is out with a new study comparing the number of American parents of children under age 13 who hold a biblical Christian worldview with those who adhere to competing secular alternatives. The results are a damning indictment of Americans’ rejection of or simple indifference to a biblical worldview. Across all…

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Poll Finds Most Americans Aren’t Going To Church. Here’s Why That’s A Big Problem

March 22, 2022 admin

Fewer Americans are going to church on a regular basis and most think the United States is headed in the wrong direction, a poll out today from Marist and Deseret News finds. After surveying 1,653 adults at the beginning of 2022, pollsters found that many Americans, 54 percent, still profess belief in God “as described…

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Why Americans Are Really Leaving Church

March 21, 2022 admin

Last year, a Gallup poll attracted considerable attention for discovering that for the first time in 80 years of surveys, Americans’ membership in houses of worship had dropped below 50 percent. That event marked a few decades of decline, given that 70 percent of the country belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque as recently…

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‘Faith With Feet And Hands’: Christians Bring Hope To Ukraine’s War Zone

March 16, 2022 admin

In the first 10 days of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, people I know there tell me, almost 400 babies took their first breaths in the capital city of Kyiv. Grocery shelves are still being re-stocked. Food is not being hoarded. Neighbors are helping neighbors. Behind the scenes of Ukrainian resistance stands the church as a…

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Christians, Let’s Spend More Time In Prayer Than On Twitter

March 2, 2022 admin

There’s a lot of panicked chatter about World War III lately. Twitter is awash in propaganda from both sides of the Russia-Ukraine border. Instagram is flooded with pro-Ukraine posts and profiles are painted with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. NPR wants to make sure you know, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, how to…

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Pastor appealing to US Supreme Court after Vimeo deleted testimony of his exit from gay lifestyle

February 14, 2022 admin

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – A California pastor who was homosexual before giving his life to Christ is asking the US Supreme Court to intervene in a case he brought against Vimeo, after the platform deleted video testimonies of his successful exit from the gay lifestyle. Claiming unfair discrimination and a…

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Report: Global religious population growing faster than non-religious

February 7, 2022 admin

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – A new report by Lifeway Research has shown that the population of religious people is growing at a faster rate than the population of non-religious people, the Christian Post (CP) reports. In particular, the report showed that the number of Christians worldwide increased 1.17% from 2000…

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Michigan: Christian high school student sues after suspension for sharing views on homosexuality

February 7, 2022 admin

Monday, February 7, 2022 | Tag Cloud Tags: Christian, Free Speech, Great Lakes, Homosexuality, Media, Michigan, News, Police, religion, War, Worthy News by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – A Christian high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against his Michigan school after he was suspended for sharing his religious beliefs about…

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Conservative religious parents have better success at transmitting faith to their children than moderates or liberals, study finds

January 19, 2022 admin

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – A new study has found that religious conservative parents have greater success in passing their faith on to their children than liberal or moderate parents do, Christian Headlines (CH) reports. Published in the journal Sociology of Religion, the study contends this outcome is partly due to…

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