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Do any of these Bible stories remind you of Donald Trump?
Throw in his willingness to “date” Ivanka if she weren’t his daughter, a civil conviction for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, who apparently “didn’t let him do it because he was famous,” one photo op where he held a shrink-wrapped Bible upside down, two impeachments, three wives, six bankruptcies, 34 felony convictions, an intention to “suspend the Constitution,” or to be a ...
After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that …
Mar 15, 2022 · In a nation where the 1611 King James Version of the Bible still holds tremendous sway, imagine the challenges of updating one of the modern English translations of the Good Book.. That’s why Friendship Press, the National Council of Churches and the Society for Biblical Literature assembled a team of dozens of scholars to undertake the first update of the New Revised Standard Version in 30 ...
What’s happening to megachurch pastors in Dallas?
Megachurch pastors in Dallas are starting to drop like flies.. On June 9, Tony Evans stepped away for an unspecified period of time from the 10,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, a church he started in his living room and led for 48 years, explaining vaguely that he fell short of a standard “a number of years ago.” One week later, Mike Buster resigned as executive pastor of the 45,000 ...
One quarter of U.S. United Methodist churches have …
Jan 23, 2024 · Final statistics for churches exiting The United Methodist Church show more similarities than differences between congregations that left the denomination and those that stayed, along with sustained identity trends among 7,600 departing churches — 25% of the UMC’s 30,000 churches in the United States.. The break-up of the UMC was initiated at a special legislative assembly, the 2019 ...
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s …
Dec 13, 2022 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...
Why Christians should support reproductive justice, …
“Reproductive justice” is a term coined by Black women activists in the 1990s to recognize the intersections of race, class, sexuality, nation and gender in reproductive health and decision-making.. SisterSong, an organization that fights for reproductive justice, defines the term as “ the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not …
Why being transgender is not a sin – Baptist News Global
Nov 9, 2018 · Transgender identity is about who a person is. It’s not about who they love or what actions they take that might be sinful in the sense that we all sin. It is about their fundamental being as humans created by God in God’s image – an image that God has declared to be good.
An oft-quoted biblical scholar changes his mind on LGBTQ …
In 1996, Hays released Moral Vision of the New Testament and it quickly became a standard text for biblical scholars, theologians and ethicists alike. In the 16th chapter, Hays carefully works through the few relevant New Testament passages and concludes the witness of the New Testament is against homosexuality.
10 Lessons from the LGBTQ Debate in Church - Baptist …
Feb 13, 2018 · Our congregation went through 18 months of intense study, prayer and dialogue about LGBTQ inclusion, and we have the scars to show for it. And we would have had scars regardless of which way the decision went. But we are better for choosing the good over the easy.