As Americans commemorate the Tusla race massacre’s centennial, the Museum of the Bible will release a video series that will give the members of the Vernon Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church community, the only surviving Black business in that area from 1921, a platform to tell their story.
There is a strong consensus that American democracy is in trouble and very few look to people of faith to help bridge the divide and solve our biggest problems. I think it is for a time like this that Christians are called to the public square, but not in the ways that we have traditionally approached it. These times call out for people who understand that our cries for justice have to be accompanied by a humble and merciful spirit.
Americans cherish what most of the world craves: civil protection that allows the individual to flourish under a government that can only exist by the consent of the governed. So, when the President of the United States declared on Thursday, 8 April 2021 that, "No amendment to the Constitution is absolute," his remarks, without explanation, sent a chilling message to many Americans.
The situation in India is far worse than people realize, and it will be long after the final effect of this surge in COVID-19 infections ends.
The concept of ‘being woke’ is an attempt to create moral boundaries but without God. It offers only a bleak and hopeless world in which a stern and constantly shifting morality subjects all to a judgment from which there can be no redemption or restoration.
Over two years have passed since the “Abuse of Faith” investigatory series brought wide media attention to the long-standing, pervasive SBC problem of clergy sex abuse and church cover-ups. The investigation also found that the very structure of the SBC “enabled predators to move undetected and stifled reforms to prevent abuse.” Faced with such devastating findings, you might imagine a responsible institution would do everything in its power to try to ascertain the scope of the problem, effectively address it and reach out to other survivors. But that hasn’t happened; the SBC’s response has been anemic.
It was surprising that the nation’s second-largest newspaper, USA Today, turned over its platform to an opinion writer to mainstream anti-Christian hate by calling for the cancellation of a Christian service at AT&T Stadium in July. What provoked the hate unleashed on Christians in this editorial? Promise Keepers CEO Ken Harrison's call for men to come to AT&T Stadium to become better men, husbands, fathers, and members of their churches and communities.
Bias in the news media is only going to grow more pronounced in the coming years. Rather than spending our time decrying it, we should learn how to spot it and how to learn from it. As followers of Jesus, understanding the bias of the world around us not only helps us better understand the news that we see each day, but it also helps us gain a better understanding of the people we are trying to reach.
The president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Yael Eckstein, who lives in Israel, recently reflected on the ongoing violence between Israel and Palestine.
We often support causes and campaigns that benefit our lives. There is no greater blessing, no more powerful benefit, than following Jesus. We can search our entire lives for sources of happiness. Each one – each bumper sticker, button, yard sign, even vote – are not what our hope is based in.
