Faith & Church
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10 Ways LGBTQ+ Ideology Is Reshaping The Church
Walk into certain churches today and you may encounter something that would be almost unrecognizable to Christians who worshiped in the same denominations only a generation ago. Rainbow flags surround the sanctuary. Pastors preach in Pride-colored vestments. Worship services feature queer hymns and transgender themes.…
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Israel Is Approaching A Prophetic Milestone Few Generations Thought Possible
For nearly 2,000 years, the Jewish people lived primarily outside the land of Israel. They survived expulsions, persecution, pogroms and eventually the Holocaust, scattered across virtually every corner of the world. Now that extraordinary pattern of history is moving rapidly in the opposite direction. New…
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Apple Says It Isn’t Recording You — But Its AI Is Still Listening
Imagine sitting across from a friend at lunch. You talk about your marriage, your health, something happening at work, or perhaps a financial problem you haven’t told many people about. There is no recorder sitting on the table. Nobody has pulled out a phone. Nobody…
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Canada To Christian Doctors: Provide Puberty Blocker Or Be Fined Thousands
How much does it cost a doctor to say no? In British Columbia, the answer is $28,100. That is how much family physician Dr. Henry Ajaero has been ordered to pay after refusing to inject a 14-year-old biological boy with Lupron, a drug prescribed to…
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The Methodist Shaking: One Church Is Shrinking While Another Is Growing
For years, traditional Methodists were warned that holding firmly to biblical teaching would leave them isolated, irrelevant and unable to survive in a changing culture. If the church wanted a future, they were told, it would have to become more inclusive, more flexible and less…
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Revival In Secular Sweden: When Christianity Becomes The New Rebellion
Young men in bathing trunks emerge from a Swedish lake and begin cheering, embracing, and jumping with joy. They have just been baptized–not in America’s Bible Belt or somewhere in the developing world, but in one of the most secular nations on earth. For decades,…
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The Queer Beatitudes: When Pride Replaces Repentance
A disturbing pattern is spreading through LGBTQ-affirming churches. In sermons, Pride liturgies and online worship clips, the familiar opening words of Jesus’ Beatitudes–“Blessed are”–are being borrowed and filled with an entirely different message. These are not simply prayers asking God to comfort people who have…
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When The Prison Gang Becomes A Caliphate
“Convert or get hurt.” Three words. One terrifying choice. For a vulnerable man entering the wrong British prison wing, those may be among the first words he hears. The message is not an invitation to examine a faith. It is an ultimatum from men who…
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There Is No Off Switch: How Surveillance Followed Us Home
The television is off. The screen is dark. The family has stopped watching. But what if the television has not stopped watching them? A major investigation into LG smart televisions has uncovered an extraordinary amount of data collection occurring through a device millions of families…
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When The Church Becomes Entertainment, Who Preaches Repentance?
For nearly three centuries, worshippers have entered St Paul’s Cathedral to pray beneath its towering dome, hear Scripture proclaimed, and remember that there are things in this world greater than themselves. Now one of Britain’s most sacred Christian landmarks has found a new partner: a…
