DAILY NEWSLETTER: Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers

Published: Wed, 03/30/22

3/30/22

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IN THE NEWS

Hillsong, Once a Leader of Christian Cool, Loses Footing in America

Terry Crist, a fifth-generation pastor in Phoenix, joined the global megachurch Hillsong in part because of what he describes as its distinctly joyful approach to church life: Hillsong was an institution where leaders seemed “light and free,” offering a church experience that attracted tens of thousands of people around the world....

Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers

A federal judge in Texas is barring the Navy from taking action for now against sailors who have objected to being vaccinated against COVID-19 on religious grounds....

Diocese of California plans to turn 9-acre lot into affordable housing and organic farm

The Diocese of California, which covers the San Francisco Bay Area, is planning to use a vacant lot it owns to address the region’s housing crisis while practicing environmental stewardship and promoting local food....

ERLC urging quick action on protecting Dreamers

The Southern Baptist Convention’s ethic entity is exhorting Congress to act quickly to guard undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as children from deportation, participants in the 2022 Evangelical Convening on Immigration were told March 28....

Christian University, Faulkner, Awarded $4.25 Million In Grants To Support Black Students

Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, has been awarded two grants meant to bolster opportunities for low-income and African American students, the university has announced. The grants will provide Black students better access to mentors, academic coaches and student tutors, among other offerings....

FROM FAITH ON VIEW

American missionary kidnapped in Ukraine

An American missionary serving as a pastor in Ukraine with Melitopol’s Word of Life Church was kidnapped by a number of Russian soldiers on Saturday.
The 50-year-old pastor, Dmitry Bodyu, was reportedly taken from his home....

The best and worst of religious power

It has been a month now since Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country’s forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine. With the horror of war, the world has seen the power of Christian compassion and the horror of how religious power can be corrupted by those willing to misuse it....

Conservative writer: More Christians in politics should not be goal

More and more Christians are visibly involved in politics. But that shouldn’t necessarily be the goal, conservative columnist David French says. In an essay for The Dispatch, French says that he used to be overjoyed to hear that a politician claimed to share his most profound beliefs....

COMMENTARY

Christians Fighting Christians: A Disgraceful Legacy

The Christian Church has a disgraceful legacy of Christians fighting Christians. In the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Christians fought among themselves for two hundred years over the nature of Jesus....

Holy Russia and the Consequences of Christian Nationalism

When I was 22 years old, I got a tattoo of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky on my arm. I would go on to credit his book The Brothers Karamazov as reigniting my love of Christianity after years of growing up in suburban evangelicalism....

The Constitutional Roots of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Public Faith

Standing behind a podium bearing the presidential seal, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson—President Biden’s pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court—introduced herself to the nation by “thanking God for delivering me to this point in my professional journey.”...

Faith and Reason Are Great, but There’s Something More

According to National Geographic, scientists have identified more than 1.2 million species of animal and plant life. What makes this statistic remarkable is not what we know, but what we don’t know—according to the same source, some 7.5 million species (or 86% of all life) are still unknown to us...

Christian frustration

Let’s be honest; there are many frustrated Christians in our churches. They are frustrated with God because their life experiences are at odds with the promises concerning them in the Bible....

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