Willow Creek is imploding, due primarily to a #MeToo sex scandal involving its influential celebrity pastor Bill Hybel. Willow Creek was one of the pioneering megachurches, whose church growth tactics were emulated by countless congregations. Including some in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. My fellow
We have blogged about the curious embrace of Muslims by the hard left, despite their hostility to feminism, abortion, and LGBT rights. Now an article from Religious News Service looks at Muslim’s commitment to the Democratic party, whose progressive wing in particular is courting them.
Barna Research has conducted a major study of Protestant pastors and how they are doing in their ministry. A sample of the findings has been published online as The Ups and Downs of Ministry, which shows the result of a survey asking pastors what they most like
It’s one thing for a government to ban religion and to persecute religion. That’s what the Soviet Union did. China, though, is pursuing another approach to subjugate religion: Have the government control the religion, forcing it to conform its teachings and practices according to what
My post about the One Hour Bible, an edition of highlights designed to be read in 60 minutes, got me thinking: How long does it take to read the whole Bible? I stumbled upon these calculations posted on the website of the The Village of
Pope Francis has changed the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on capital punishment. The church has always before upheld the right of the state to execute criminals. In fact, the church of Rome often practiced capital punishment, with the co-operation of the “secular arm”
Last year a group of European conservative intellectuals (including Roger Scruton) met in Paris in an effort to define European culture and to identify the threats against it. They drew up a document they called The Paris Statement. Essentially, they said that European culture consists
Have you noticed in a bookstore how so many book covers today depict a character’s body but cut off the face? Have you noticed the difference between how people relate to each other online–without seeing each other–as opposed to face-to-face? And how much easier it
The University of Wyoming has put out an advertising initiative with the slogan “The World Needs More Cowboys.” This has sparked outrage on the grounds that the figure of the cowboy is racist and sexist, an emblem of white privilege and toxic masculinity. This, even
One of the participants in the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom was Callista Gingrich (wife of Newt), who is now the United States Ambassador to the Vatican. She argues that promoting the right to religious freedom also promotes the rights of women. In the course
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