When Pastors Elevate Charisma over Godliness, Churches Suffer
If the modern church continues elevating charisma above character, we should not be surprised when more scandals emerge in the years ahead
Opinion
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Beware of false prophets: Lessons from a ‘pro-choice pastor’ in the US Senate
Last week's failed cloture vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (or, more fittingly, the “Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act”) provided an important glimpse into the worldviews of America’s two major political parties.
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Russia’s attack on Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial is an atrocity
Babyn Yar is infamous as a symbol of the “Holocaust by bullets.” Before the gas chambers of death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka were built, the Wehrmacht (German army) deployed Einsatzgruppen or “Special Operation Groups” as mobile killing squads to round up Jews and shoot them.
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Colorado Legislature introduces extreme abortion bill
Coloradans should encourage their state representative and senator to reject this extreme effort to ban rights for vulnerable people and threaten the health of Colorado women.
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The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? Wrong!
In a recent newsletter for my College of Business at Concordia University Chicago, I made a bold claim: that global extreme poverty has been reduced to 9%, and that a majority of the world’s population is now in the middle class.
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Did the prophet Ezekiel predict Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
There is absolutely no scriptural or factual evidence that connects Ezekiel 38 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And with hundreds (or thousands) of mistaken date-setting interpretations of the Bible littering our recent past, it’s best to toss this latest one in the dustbin right now.
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A racist Virginia school board and principal get called out
In a terrific win for parents, hardworking students, and those who want to end discrimination in our schools, a federal judge has thrown out the racist admissions policy of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious public magnet school in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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The FDA continues to promote abortion
How often have the pro-life movement and Sen. Bernie Sanders been united on an issue? It happened in February when President Biden’s nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to become commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration sparked something exceedingly rare in modern Washington: bipartisan opposition.
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Honor women by lifting up biblical womanhood
March 8 is International Women’s Day, which presents a perfect opportunity to highlight Godly women who are a testament to Biblical womanhood, both in belief and in witness.
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10 things the global crisis has revealed about the Church
Alas, despite multiple thousands of conservative evangelicals rallying for days of fasting and prayer, they did not get the result they were looking for. My only conclusion is that much of the prayer was probably not in line with the will and heart of God.
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There’s a New Kind of Christian in Congress
Contributing writer Rodney Kennedy explores the ways that Marjorie Taylor Greene has come to represent a new form of Christians who work and pray for a rupture in deliberative democracy. This means that Republicans don’t just have a Greene problem – America has a Greene problem, and so does Christianity.
