The proposed conversion therapy laws are nothing to do with preventing abhorrent and abusive practices. They are everything to do with imposing an ideology upon the whole population.
Christian reconcilers are reconcilers "in Christ's stead". They work for peace and reconciliation as Jesus did.
This teaching is not just destroying the innocence of our young; it is putting them at jeopardy by prematurely sexualising them, while embedding views and attitudes that run counter to science, and promoting behaviours for which the body is not designed.
One of the key leaders of what has variously been called "the Baptist War," "the Christmas Uprising" and "the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt" was Samuel Sharpe.
So often in life we prevaricate until it is too late. We don't make decisions when we should, thus enabling bad outcomes.
Sex, like all of life, belongs to God. It was created to serve His purposes and is redeemed to those purposes by Christ. Especially today, we need to be willing to consider what those sacred purposes truly are.
In short, when it comes to three key realms of religious life – belief, behavior and belonging – all are lower than they have ever been in American history.
While the school and the diocese may attempt to deny that the book is about gender identity, the publisher unashamedly states that this is what it is about.
Especially in the Ukraine war with all its religious sub-themes, the churches should talk to each other and deal with the religious roots of this war.
Christian Today speaks to David Brown, author of Reconnect Your Church, about how churches can stay healthy and prevent decline.
The prosperity gospel is indeed heresy. And yet, some Christians reading this article might be missing a bigger danger closer to home.
The idea that a member of the clergy could be prevented from leading services or preaching because they hold to the Church's own teaching on marriage and sexual activity seems extraordinary.
Vladimir Putin justifies his war against Ukraine by claiming to protect Russia at its historic borders. The question however is: what does he mean by 'historic'?
