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Why The AI Age Needs More Bereans
Over the past year, I have spoken with church groups, educators, parents, and radio audiences across the country about artificial intelligence. Most questions focus on jobs, national security, or the race with China. Few people ask the more fundamental question: What happens when a generation grows accustomed to accepting answers without examining them?
Can A Judge Prevent A Child From Attending Church?
What happens when a government court decides that a child can no longer attend her church? That question is now at the center of one of the most extraordinary religious liberty cases unfolding in America.
America's New Sacred Symbol Being Raised Across The Land: The Pride Flag
The Pride movement increasingly contains many of the elements traditionally associated with faith. It has sacred symbols. It has approved doctrines. It has heresies that cannot be questioned. It has public rituals. It has annual festivals. It even has forms of excommunication for those who refuse to affirm its teachings.
Walking Away From Church Over Politics?
The Democratic nominee for Congress in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District is making waves over remarks she made at a campaign stop where she admitted that she had "stopped going to church" over Trump voters. The remark says volumes not only about the health of America's political parties, but also about the interaction of religion and politics.
Canadian Bill Puts Bible In The Crosshairs: Sermons Could Become A Hate Crime?
Consider a pastor preaching through Romans 1, where the Apostle Paul describes same-sex relationships as sinful. Under previous protections, a pastor could confidently teach that passage knowing the law recognized the legitimacy of religious expression. Under the new framework, critics fear that a complaint could be filed claiming such preaching promotes hatred against a protected group.
Farmers Sound Alarm As Groundwater Across The Nation Is Disappearing Fast
Gigantic underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted and once that water is gone it will take a very long time for it to come back. That is a major problem, because more than half of the water that U.S. farmers use for irrigation comes from underground aquifers. What in the world are our farmers going to do once that water is gone?
Woke Pastors Want You To Affirm Queer Holiness
Every generation of Christians faces the same fundamental question: Will the church conform to the world, or will it call the world to conform to Christ? That question was on full display recently when a pastor at an ELCA Lutheran church stood before her congregation and led them in what she called an "Affirmation of Queer Holiness."
What Happens When Machines Become The Majority On The Internet?
For decades, the internet was fundamentally a human creation. Every website, every comment, every search, every purchase, and every viral trend ultimately traced back to a real person sitting behind a keyboard. That reality has now changed.
Defense Department Decision Reignites The Mormon-Christian Debate
A Muslim may say he worships God. A Christian also says he worships God. Yet Christians recognize that the Islamic understanding of God differs dramatically from the biblical understanding of God. The same principle applies here. Mormons and Christians often use identical words while assigning very different meanings to those words. This is where terminology becomes critically important.
Why Israel Refuses To Leave Hezbollah Alone: Preventing Another October 7
To many diplomats, Hezbollah is merely one piece of a larger regional puzzle. To Israel, Hezbollah represents an existential threat sitting directly on its northern border--a threat that Israeli intelligence believes recently came within moments of carrying out a second October 7.
Madness: Church Committees Protest Requirement That Clergy Be Monogamous
A denomination that spent years revising its teaching on sexuality is now discovering that once biblical authority is untethered from church doctrine, there is no obvious place to stop.
Drag Show Invasion: From High School Graduation Parties To Dog Shows
What exactly does drag performance have to do with academic achievement, graduation, or celebrating the successful completion of high school?
