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Half of US Christians Have No Idea What The Great Commission Is
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5 years ago
According to Barna Research, over half of American Christians have never heard of the Great Commission, and over 37% of those polled couldn’t identify the Great Commission out of a list of various...
Christian lawyer wants LGBT excluded from anti-lynching bill.
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Religion & Ethics
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5 years ago
For more than a century, there have been a number of unsuccessfully attempts in the US to make lynching a federal crime. Well, success was at last attained last December when the Justice for...
I Can’t Believe It’s 2019 and We’re Still Arguing About the Birth Control Benefit
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Religion & Ethics
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5 years ago
The Trump administration is attempting to torpedo the birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by issuing regulations that render it utterly toothless. These regulations, which...
Lord, Execute Judgment Against the New Pharaohs and Their New Pagan Gods
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Religion & Ethics
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5 years ago
Jews around the world tomorrow hear Parsha Bo (Exodus 10:1 to 13:16) declaimed in the synagogue, recounting the last of the biblical plagues, the killing of Egypt’s first-born, and our midnight...
Netanyahu to Christians: 'Prophesies are being realized'
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5 years ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a Christmastime message to believers around the globe that prophesies from Scripture are coming true today as he shared his gratitude to Christians...
Why Are Some Catholics “Militarizing” their Faith?
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Religion & Ethics
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5 years ago
Okay, dear readers, it’s time we had a talk about cultural appropriation. No, I’m not talking about what you think I am; I’m talking about Catholic men who get all excited about comparing...
Conservatives Claim Religious ‘Hostility’ When They Face Consequences for Refusing to Use Students’ Pronouns
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Religion & Ethics
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5 years ago
W]e are here today because a specific worldview is being imposed upon me,” said West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming at a public hearing in early December. In fact, Vlaming was at...
The Christmas story starts and ends with a tree
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
A family who was going to go out of town for Christmas loaded up their SUV with their luggage, took the dog over to a neighbor’s house, entered the coordinates in their GPS and had even recorded a...
'Love has no borders': Arizona man fulfills Christmas wish list for Mexican girl who sent it by balloon
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6 years ago
By Janelle Griffith It was a Christmas wish that crossed international borders. An Arizona man fulfilled the Christmas list of an 8-year-old girl in Mexico whose letter to Santa reached him by...
'Silent Night' is 200 years old this Christmas Eve – Here's why its simple message is still so powerful today
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6 years ago
It was 200 years ago this Christmas Eve, on a cold and snowy night in the small Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, inside the small St. Nicholas Catholic parish church, that the beloved...
Some Christians Are Mad at Mattel for Considering Same-Sex Wedding Dolls
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Mattel, the company that produces Barbie dolls, has plans to meet with a gay couple to create a same-sex wedding set. The move comes after Nick Caprio and Matt Jacobi couldn’t find a...
The True Meaning of Christmas Paganism, Sun Worship and Commercialism
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6 years ago
Christmas is the celebration of the time when the days start to lengthen, which in the Northern Hemisphere, is in the middle of winter. Many religions in history have claimed the winter solstice...
More than 500 priests accused of sexual abuse not yet publicly identified by Catholic church, Illinois attorney general finds
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
The report said accusations have been leveled against 690 priests, while Catholic officials have publicly identified only 185 clergy with credible allegations against them> The determination...
Here are 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Some Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God. Then, when it suits their other...
7 top threats Christian churches in America face today
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6 years ago
The Alliance Defending Freedom is a household name for many who been have followed religious liberty cases in recent years. A multiple-time winner at the U.S. Supreme Court, the organization...
Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook
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6 years ago
State legislatures across the country became showcases for Christian nationalist legislation in 2018. Leading the charge was the ominously named Project Blitz — a coalition of Christian Right...
Christian Band Fights Music Industry To Release Pro-MAGA Song
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6 years ago
Popular Christian band About A Mile went against the wishes of their record label and the radio industry to release the pro-Trump song Make America Great Again. The three brothers behind the...
Ukraine moves to create its own Orthodox church out of Russia's orbit
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6 years ago
By Yuliya Talmazan One of Christianity's biggest splits in centuries is expected to be formalized this weekend as Ukraine moves to create a new church independent from Russia's influence....
How do we know Jesus is the Messiah?
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6 years ago
Theologians are explaining how it is possible to know that Jesus Christ was and is indeed the long-awaited Messiah. In an interview this week with Desiring God, Reformed theologian D.A. Carson...
The Chinese gene-editing experiment was an outrage. The scientific community shares blame.
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6 years ago
We’re overdue for a society-wide conversation about this technology. Chinese scientist He Jiankui is part of a team that claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies....
Religious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?
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6 years ago
A manifesto on religious freedom called The American Charter of Freedom of Religion and Conscience was rolled out at an invitation-only event at the National Archives Museum last week. Original...
In Face of GOP’s Shockingly Anti-Democratic Actions, ‘Love’ Is a Moral Failure
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6 years ago
Republicans in Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin are losing complete control over their respective state governments come January. They are not taking it well . In all three states, the...
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