🌎 Pope Apologizes for Homophobic Slur

Published: Wed, 05/29/24

Updated: Wed, 05/29/24

May 29, 2024

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IN THE NEWS

Pope Issues Rare Apology Over Reported Homophobic Slur

Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises to anyone offended by it, the Vatican said on Tuesday....

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“When Calls the Heart” star Mamie Laverock is on life support after falling from a fifth-floor balcony. News of the 19-year-old star’s tragic accident came via a GoFundMe page organized by her family. In it, her parents, Rob and Nicole...

In ‘Cops, Criminals and Christ’ podcast, undercover cop-turned-pastor shares his story

For 12 years, Dale Sutherland spent his mornings at church working as a youth pastor and his afternoons wandering the streets of northwest Washington, D.C., as an undercover narcotics officer, searching for drugs. Sometimes, his two...

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FROM FAITH ON VIEW

New ECFA Guidelines Aim to Strengthen Accountability Among Evangelical Leaders

The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), which accredits over 2,700 evangelical nonprofits, is introducing a new standard to address leadership integrity. This move comes in response to the significant financial and...

Visio Divina in the Classroom

It is not uncommon for professors at Christian colleges and universities to begin class with prayer. I attended public schools through high school. I attended public colleges until I transferred to a private secular art school in New York where I...

What frightened Felix?

To me, one of the most fascinating exchanges in the Bible is between the Apostle Paul and Governor Felix in Acts 24. It comes after Paul has been arrested in Jerusalem for sedition, rebellion, and profaning the Temple. Of course, if you...

Opinion: Dear Marjorie Taylor Greene

Dear U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, I’ve enjoyed reading your tweets and posts as well as articles and comments in response to your views and service. And while I’m pleased to finally be checking in, I apologize for taking so long to...

What is a Christian?

In short, a Christian worships and follows Jesus Christ of Nazareth because he or she believes Jesus to be God, Lord and Savior. Christians adhere to the monotheistic religion known as Christianity, founded by and based on the life and...

Why would a person pursue a career in the arts? Why not something more practical? This talk examines the issues of calling and vocation through a look at Rondall’s decision and discernment process. The choice for the arts involves implications for the artist, the church, and the broader culture, all of which are explored in this talk.

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COMMENTARY

What Christians Might Fear from Trump

So Donald Trump has started selling Bibles. And he now opens his rallies with a short video called God Made Trump—which makes for a pretty brassy campaign pledge. These moves have brought out great fears and great scorn among...

Work, Life, and the Dissent of the Sabbath

We were not made for the capitalist subjection that characterizes our lives. The gift of the Sabbath serves us in the present by contesting work’s overlordship and disrupting the social controls by which capitalist hegemony maintains itself....

"Attack of the Clones" is a Great Star Wars Film

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones turns twenty years old on May 16 of this year. No Star Wars film is more openly reviled. Saying in a mixed group that you enjoy watching it is like announcing that you enjoy the taste of sawdust; you...

Approaching Wisdom With Emptiness: Two Characters From John

This week in my tradition we read the story about Nicodemus. But I can’t think of this story, without also thinking about the next chapter of John and the story it features—about the woman from Samaria. These stories and their juxtaposition...

Jesus and empire, state and church

There is an obvious contradiction—at least in the popular imagination—between the values of Jesus and the practices of Christendom, and it is not surprising that what is left of the Christendom church in the West now largely views its past with...

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GOOD NEWS

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In My Experience, There’s Nothing Quite Like A Nurse

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