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Scary, weird, but more ‘biblically accurate’ angels top some Christians’ Christmas trees

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was during the pandemic when the Rev. “I think in, particularly, the times of the world that we’re in, where things seem kind of scary and weird, having a scary and weird angel sort of speaks to people,” she said. Social media is full of various interpretations of “biblically accurate angels” imagined not just in tree …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Be careful quoting the Bible when it comes to abortion – this is what it really says...

The Independent

Ron DeSantis, Republican governor of Florida and former US election candidate, might like to portray himself as “God’s fighter”, but his stance on abortion is distinctly unbiblical. Right-wing anti-abortionist Christians are also fond of relabelling abortion as “killing babies.” Again, we’re on thin ice – biblically. Both young women have paid the price for the loss of abortion rights in …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any women pastors

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. It was the final day of the SBC’s two-day annual meeting in Indianapolis where Southern Baptists have also elected a new convention …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any female pastors

LA Times

Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with female pastors in the denomination’s constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. It is the final day of the SBC’s two-day annual meeting in Indianapolis where Southern Baptists have also elected a new convention president …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer

BBC

After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer Warner Bros May is usually when people flock to cinemas for blockbuster season – but this year, that has got off to a terrible start. The summer is only just getting started, but there are mutterings in the film business that it's already a wash-out – the kind of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Support for Israel becomes a top issue for Iowa evangelicals key to the first Republican caucuses

Associated Press

NEWTON, Iowa — Steve Rowland peered beneath the brim of his baseball cap and admonished the roughly 500 people at Rising Sun Church of Christ in the Des Moines suburb of Altoona. During one recent Trump event at a downtown Cedar Rapids hotel, a man in an audience of 2,000 shouted from the hotel ballroom floor, “God gave me to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Trump-aligned group publishes plan for 'biblically based' government

Raw Story

The right-wing Heritage Foundation is working on a plan that would impose "Biblically based" law on America through every layer of the executive branch under the next Republican president, wrote Steve Benen for MSNBC. As Benen noted, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts states that the book aims to safeguard "our God-given individual rights to live freely against a 'woke' threat,'" …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Who decided Jesus needed a brand makeover? "Jesus gets us" and evangelical hypocrisy

Salon

Jesus has taken some bad press and is apparently in need of a branding makeover. Thus we have all been subjected to the "Jesus gets us" marketing campaign. America is certainly becoming less and less a "Christian nation," and many evangelical Christians are panicking, believing certainly feel they are losing the cultural and political war for the soul of America. …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Liberty University is sued for its 'conspiracy of silence' over sexual assault

Daily Mail

One of the country’s top evangelical universities is being sued by a dozen former students who claim that administrators made it ‘difficult or impossible’ to report sexual assault because the young women would be punished for 'pre-marital sex'. Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Virginia-based Christian university co-founded by the late Jerry Falwell Sr, would penalize the young women who came forward …

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4 years, 3 months ago

'Soldiers for Christ': Trump cabinet Bible study teacher calls elections a 'spiritual battle' that 'believers will win'