A conservative Baptist mission agency is cutting ties with one of its missionaries who is accused of raping a woman 30 years ago. The action comes nine years after the mission agency—Baptist Pioneer Mission—first heard of the rape allegations against its missionary, Richard DeVall. Five months ago, The Roys Report published an article detailing the allegations against DeVall....
Religion, of course, is just politics by another name. And both are mostly men behaving badly. Consider that great Christian, Vladimir Putin. The dictator is Russian Orthodox, as his church adores him. I went to look up Putin’s use of Christianity, leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, while I wonder—how did the teachings of Jesus end up
here?...
"At this moment we see a lot of bombs that do not explode," says Victor Punin, a pastor based in Kyiv. "We have a lot of testimonies of people being led out of danger shortly before an attack. Also, very heartening, many people in the Ukrainian army are asking for prayer."...
