After months of denying allegations that he had an 'inappropriate relationship' with a church staffer, Pastor Tavner Smith of Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, admitted to and apologized for the affair.
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Loving Our Neighbors By Refusing to Lie
Among the reasons that Christians cannot sit out our culture-wide conversations about sexual orientation and gender identity is that it is based on a lie about the human person, a lie that has convinced many. To relinquish the belief in a reality that exists outside of ourselves is to give up more than we might realize. If men can be women, if laws which expand voting access in Georgia can be renamed as bringing back Jim Crow, then what is real? If Christians give in to lies, why would we be trusted to tell the truth about God?
Live Not by Lies: The Least We Must Do
Former New York Times writer, Bari Weiss, recently published a piece warning of a “danger, this one from the left … one that has attained cultural dominance, capturing America’s elites and our most powerful institutions.”
“I am here to ring the alarm,” writes Weiss. “I’m here to say: Do not be shocked anymore … It’s time to accept reality, if we want to have any hope of fixing it.” Weiss describes a growing and institutionally enforced anti-Semitism, and proceeds to list a series of incidents that she says cannot be accurately understood as isolated, but instead as an essential and insidious component of the new liberalism, a “mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality.”
'Trump Lies' — And Other False Statements We Are Told about the President
When determining if we should support the President, we must do our own independent, as politically neutral research as possible, because simply put, the media is full of lies and biased opinions.
