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For Mike Johnson, Religion Is at the Forefront of Politics and Policy The new House speaker has put his faith at
the center of his political career, and aligned himself with a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that some describe as Christian nationalism.... A California megachurch that collected nearly 20,000 ballots in the last two elections is encouraging churches nationwide to host ballot collection efforts to boost Christian turnout in the 2024 election as Americans
grow increasingly willing to cast their votes before Election Day. ... Palestinian Evangelicals Call Western Church to Repentance, Criticized in Return Since the outbreak of war after unprecedented terror attacks on Israel by Hamas, Middle Eastern churches, councils, and leaders have expressed their outrage over the killing of thousands of innocent civilians....
UN expresses concern over lynching of Christian student in Nigeria
The United Nations has written to the Nigerian government about its concern over the killing of a Christian student last year. Deborah Emmanuel was publicly lynched by a mob of Islamist extremists at her school in Sokoto State... Mike Johnson Conducted Seminars Promoting the US as a
“Christian Nation” Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican House speaker, used to conduct a seminar in
churches premised on the idea that the United States is a “Christian nation.” This ministry, as he has referred to it, is yet more evidence that Johnson is committed to a hardcore Christian fundamentalism that shapes his views of politics and government....
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Reconsidering what it means to be Pro-life in America
For over a decade, the United States of America was a dry nation. The Volstead Act was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol in all its forms, and while statistically, the consumption of alcohol did drop, it may be argued that wholistically the prohibition did more harm than
good....
A hidden
picture? The image of God in humanity The COVID pandemic has created a number of theological discussions, some meaningful and most depressingly wrong in all degrees. One of the most common and oft abused is the notion that
because humanity is created in the image of God, wearing a mask is an affront to the Creator....
What not to say when someone has God beaten out of them
“If being hurt by church causes you to lose faith in God,” so the saying on a popular image macro goes, “then your faith was in people, not in God.” I’ve been seeing this sentiment more and more in the last couple of
years...
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The Four Myths of the American Dream I have three great loves in my life: my family, soccer, and the American dream. So as a naturalized citizen and a defender of an aspirational vision for the United States, I was predictably excited to read Ours Was the Shining Future... On May 4, 1969, Supreme Court justice Abe
Fortas resigned following revelations that he had accepted $20,000 in payment from a foundation controlled by Louis E. Wolfson, a friend and former client then under federal investigation for violating securities laws.... Was the Church Ever Diverse? Some say that churches
are all the same. But were they ever diverse? In his article, “Church Attendance Used to Drive up Trust: It Doesn’t Anymore,” Ryan Burge suggests that the diminishing correlation between church attendance.... When rituals leave us full—and then empty My introduction to York Alternative High School came rather unexpectedly a few weeks ago. Someone sent me a Facebook message, and after a brief phone call to verify the request, I was set to be the school’s commencement speaker.... Protest as the ultimate rebellion? In my research into evangelical authoritarian parenting books from the 1970s on (think Dr. Dobson), I found a pattern: conservative Christian men talked a lot about
how rebellious and terrible the young people were....
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