Editor’s Note: For additional reading on the decline and liberalization of the PCA. [Staff Writer | The Aquila Report] The Metropolitan New York Presbytery (MNY) approved an overture at its March 13, 2019 Stated Meeting, asking the 47th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America to amend Book of Church Order (BCO) 7-2, 9-3, … Read more
[Claire Chretien | Lifesite News] Close papal collaborator Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who was caught on tape encouraging a sex abuse victim to remain silent and “acknowledge your own guilt,” has died at 85. The Pope has already issued praise for the deceased heterodox cardinal, calling him a “zealous pastor” who was “attentive to the … Read more
[Micaiah Bilger | LifeNews] The Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters last week to two abortion groups that are selling dangerous abortion drugs to American women over the internet. The groups are putting women at “significant health risks,” according to the agency. They allow women to buy the drugs online without ever seeing a … Read more
Two years after first reporting on Clayton Jennings’ betrayal of ministerial trust, spiritual abuse and sexual use of his followers, and one year after the last article we published on the subject, Jennings began to unravel on social media the weekend before last. Driving across the country with my children, I began to receive texts … Read more
Years ahead of our time (again), polemics ministries warned you about Francis Chan many Blood Moons ago. Now, after everybody and their uncle knew that Francis Chan had been off in a different pasture for nearly a decade, Cripplegate has finally ‘farewelled’ him (by the way, Cripplegate is a fine blog). To ‘farewell’ someone is … Read more
Video: Authors of New Pioneer Report Discuss Social-Emotional Learning [Editorial Staff | Pioneer Institute] Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been billed as a transformational tool that will propel students to greater academic achievement and personal fulfillment. Unfortunately, as a new Pioneer Institute study makes clear, the research evidence to back up these claims is thin and unpersuasive. Moreover, the … Read more
[Maya T. Prabhu | AJC] A pair of Georgia Democrats are planning to file bills that address “men’s reproductive health” as a way to highlight the differences in how health care is treated between the sexes. The proposals would target men’s health and impose restrictions that the sponsors said mimic what is being asked of women. … Read more
[Brian McGleenon | Technocracy News] A Japanese robot has been created to preach the teachings of Buddha in colloquial language at the Kodaiji Temple in the ancient city of Kyoto. As Mindar gave its speech on the Heart Sutra and humanity, English and Chinese subtitles were projected on the wall as music played in the … Read more
Editor’s Note: The following is the story of Jamie Shupe, a veteran of the United States Army, and the first American to win the right to obtain non-binary status after challenging Oregon state law. In his own words, Jamie Shupe takes you on his self-described “grand medical experiment,” show-casing how activism in the transgender community … Read more
[Cheryl Sullenger | LifeNews] When a 21-year old Amanda Davis reported to the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 4, 2016, for a routine elective first trimester surgical abortion, she likely expected to receive a “safe” and easy abortion from the largest abortion business in the country. What she got instead was … Read more
By Cody Libolt On March 4th, Beth Moore tweeted the following (image above): Somewhere along the way, Denny, we have to reckon with the fact that we — myself included — went too far. We put limitations on women that exceeded what Christ demonstrated. We did it instead of wrestling with the tension between the Gospels & epistles. We’re watching a … Read more
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 This post is the thirty-second in a series that addresses a list of “40 Harmful Effects of Christianity” that originated on the American Atheists Facebook page and … Read more
“It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his … Read more
Today, thousands of Roman Catholics marked the last day before the Lenten season by celebrating “Fat Tuesday,” a day of feasting and revelry. Tomorrow, even more will start out the Lenten Season by attending an Ash Wednesday Service. A priest will mark their foreheads with ash to remind them of the dust from whence they … Read more
Imagine that there is a fellow member of your local church named Clyde. For the past four Friday nights you’ve seen Clyde drunkenly stumbling out of downtown bar. Concerned about the spiritual state of Clyde and the repudiation of your church, you approach Clyde and admonish him from the Scriptures about the sinfulness of his … Read more
