Women reported two top leaders’ inappropriate behavior for more than 12 years. Nothing happened. DANIEL SILLIMAN | MARCH 15, 2022 02:30 PM – for Christianity Today Disclosure: This story was reported by CT news editor Daniel Silliman, edited by senior news editor Kate Shellnutt, and published without prior review by ministry executives. Neither editor had access to personnel files or meetings regarding the allegations or investigation. You can read president and CEO Timothy Dalrymple’s statement here. For more than a dozen years, Christianity Today failed to hold two ministry leaders accountable for sexual harassment at its Carol Stream, Illinois, office. A … Continue reading Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today

BY: PAMELA DANZIGER – DECEMBER 08, 2021 – for The Federalist If you only watched corporate media’s coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Organization abortion case before the Supreme Court last week, you’d think very few people still believed in Christianity and its values, prominent among which is the belief that life is divinely created and precious. But a recent poll suggests the majority of Americans do express a belief in God. In a survey of some 6,500 American adults, Pew Research Center found that many Americans still hold religious convictions including a deep and abiding belief in God, belief in heaven and hell, … Continue reading Poll: Most Americans Believe In Biblical God, Heaven And Hell, And Purpose For Suffering

religious sect Alternate titles: Êzidî, Azīdī, Izadī, Yazdani, Yezīdī, Zedī from the Encyclopedia Britannica – Feb 17, 2022 Yazīdī, also spelled Yezīdī, Azīdī, Zedī, Izadī, Êzidî, or Yazdani, member of a Kurdish religious minority found primarily in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, the Caucasus region, and parts of Iran. The Yazīdī religion includes elements of ancient Iranian religions as well as elements of Judaism, Nestorian Christianity, and Islam. Although scattered and probably numbering only between 200,000 and 1,000,000, the Yazīdīs have a well-organized society, with a chief sheikh as the supreme religious head and an emir, or prince, as the secular head. The origins of the name Yazīdī are uncertain; some scholars have proposed that it comes from the Old Iranian yazata (divine being), while others … Continue reading Yazīdī

from Wikipedia – Feb 17, 2022 My cmnt: I do not trust Wikipedia for anything that can even slightly be used to further the Leftist agenda of the democratic party. That is a LOT of things. My cmnt: I’m only including the first paragraph of the Wiki article. Click the link above to read the whole piece. In general it seems to be a fair and accurate assessment of their beliefs. Yazidism (Kurdish: Êzdiyatî, Êzdîtî) or Sharfadin[7] (Kurdish: شه‌رفه‌دین, Şerfedîn)[8][9][10] is a monotheisticethnic religion that has roots in a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.[11] Yazidism is followed by the mainly Kurmanji-speaking Yazidis and is based on belief in one God who … Continue reading Yazidism: the religion and beliefs

From the website: gotquestions.org Mariology is the theological study of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Within the Roman Catholic Church, Mary is venerated over all other saints. Anglicans share some of the beliefs of Roman Catholic Mariology, but not all. The Eastern Orthodox Church calls Mary the “God-bearer,” emphasizing Mary’s status as the mother of God Incarnate, gives her the title “Ever Virgin,” and emphasizes her sublime holiness, her share in redemption, and her role as a mediator of grace. Most Protestants endorse the Apostles’ Creed, which acknowledges the virgin birth of Christ, but they do not believe in most of the … Continue reading What is Mariology?

As posted on gotquestions.org My cmnt: As we once again enter Advent and the Christmas season I thought this would be a good time to address this question. The phrase mother of God traces back to the third century and continues to be used in some liturgical churches, including the Roman Catholic Church. One of the topics at the Council of Ephesus in AD 431 was the use of the Greek term Theotókos (literally, “God-bearer” or “the one who gives birth to God”) in reference to Mary. That council’s use of Theotokos was meant to counter the heresy of Nestorianism, which cleaved the nature and person of Christ in … Continue reading Is Mary the mother of God (Theotokos)?

Americans are rapidly giving up on church. Our minds and bodies will pay the price. TYLER J. VANDERWEELE AND BRENDAN CASE – OCTOBER 19, 2021 for Christianity Today The Reverend William Glass is an Anglican priest and theologian, fluent in five languages and possessing an impressive résumé in marketing. His story isn’t one of privilege, however. In Glass’s view, the church saved his life. Glass grew up desperately poor in a Florida trailer park. His family went to church perhaps once a year, but his religious background was, in his words, “Southern alcoholic.” His father was either absent or abusive, … Continue reading Empty Pews Are an American Public Health Crisis

from Chessbase.com – published 11/29/2014 My cmnt: If you read this entire article in Financial Times you will hear from the greatest female chess player of all time why she quit playing chess competitively. Bottom line: she is not a man. She wanted to have children, a family and to pursue other interests. Contrary to Lib-think women cannot have it all. No one can. My cmnt: Men give up certain things to concentrate on their work. Women give up certain things to concentrate on their children. Each is necessary and important. Neither is more important in the grand scheme of … Continue reading Polgar: Playing Carlsen feels like you’re drowning

Dennis Prager | Posted: Sep 28, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Nearly fifty years ago I was given the book “The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom. It had a profound effect upon me then and to this day. Corrie and her sister and father gave up their home, their wealth, their freedom and their lives to hide the Jews of Holland from the Nazis. Only Corrie survived to tell the tale. There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in … Continue reading Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?

By KEVIN DEYOUNG  |  MARCH 9, 2021 | for The Gospel Coalition It’s no secret that America is suffering from ever-deepening division and polarization. Many of us are concerned about the increasing animosity, belligerence, and violence in our body politic. What concerns me even more are the divisions in the church, in particular, the growing factionalism in the conservative evangelical Reformed world I inhabit. Whether the problem is on the right or on the left (or both), there is little doubt that our Young, Restless, and Reformed tribe is less young (and maybe less Reformed?), but certainly as restless as ever. My … Continue reading Why Reformed Evangelicalism Has Splintered: Four Approaches to Race, Politics, and Gender

Opinion piece for Newsweek – By LYMAN STONE AND W. BRADFORD WILCOX , ADJUNCT FELLOW AND VISITING SCHOLAR, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTEON 6/24/20 AT 4:17 PM EDT News item: In December 1999, Ashley Judd became engaged to Scottish racing driver Dario Franchitti, who was driving in CART. They married in December 2001 at Skibo Castle in Scotland.[20][21] They had no children because Judd is an antinatalist: “It’s unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.”[21] They divorced in 2013.[22] – from Wikipedia –  My cmnt: What a perfectly ignorant and stupid belief to hold. All of the first-world democracies of the West and … Continue reading Empty Cradles Mean a Bleaker Future

By VIRGINIA HALE | 26 Jul 2020 for Breitbart News Childlessness is becoming increasingly common in Scandinavia, according to new research. A study by the Denmark-based Rockwool Foundation revealed that fertility rates in northern Europe are largely declining. Not only are couples having fewer children on average, but there is a distinct increase in the number of people who go through life without ever having children at all. Peter Fallesen, a senior researcher at the foundation, said there were a number of causes for the slump including that “society has, to a greater extent, lost its taste for having children”, but acknowledged … Continue reading Research: Childlessness On The Rise in Scandinavia, Overall Fertility Rates Falling

By Joseph Spurgeon – June 25, 2020 – for The Joyful Patriarchy Wife Titus 1:10-11- For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain. Let me begin by getting straight to the point of this article.  Aimee Byrd should be silenced.  Her pastors, elders, and husband should love her enough to stop her from writing and teaching errors.  Christian men need to rise up and tell feminists like her within the church … Continue reading Will Someone Love Aimee Byrd

Phones & Photos Nathan Zacharias Uncategorized  April 22, 2021 – family’s personal website In this post I’m sharing some more information in response to my brief appearance on Julie Roys’ blog last week. In the comment section of Julie’s blog, Vicki Blue tried to give an explanation for the text message I released. Among other things, in her response she says these two things: “I believe that must have been my last contact” “if there is any other text, it was before then…” Those are false statements. We have texts after that. The text messages I posted were in January, 2016. … Continue reading Defending Ravi Zacharias

MARCH 31, 2021  |  JOE CARTER | for The Gospel Coalition The Story: A new survey finds that U.S. church membership has fallen below a majority for first time in nearly a century. The Background: For the first time in 80 years of surveys, Americans’ membership in houses of worship dropped below 50 percent. A survey by Gallup finds that in 2020, 47 percent of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque, down from 50 percent in 2018 and 70 percent in 1999. When Gallup first measured church membership in 1937, it was 73 percent. It remained near 70 percent for the next … Continue reading Why Is Church Membership in America on the Decline?