In 1949 the Chinese Communist government closed down all of the Christian churches and kicked the missionaries out of the country. There were 900,000 Chinese Christians at the time. Later during the ‘Cultural Revolution’ Chairman Mao and his wife declared that there were none, but the church had merely gone underground. Now there are over […]
Missouri Gov. Greitens: “People of faith are under attack. We’re standing up for religious liberty here in Missouri.” Response: Increasingly faith organizations are being discriminated against by federal, state, and local governments. It has been open season on people of faith in the last 8 years. Elections are very important and it is fortunate for […]
Recent research in Canada confirms that theology and belief really do matter when it comes to church growth and decline. The churches that are growing have ministers that affirm traditional Christian beliefs while the ones in decline not so much. Here’s the story from On Religion: The bottom line: The faith proclaimed in growing churches […]
A huge controversy has risen after an evangelical campus ministry has declared that all of its employees adhere to a traditional evangelical/Biblical understanding of marriage. Here’s the story from Christianity Today: InterVarsity is an Evangelical Christian organization, and people who work at InterVarsity are, not surprisingly, expected to hold evangelical beliefs. … But why is […]
For several years now LGBT and gay activists have proclaimed that ‘religious liberty’ and ‘freedom of religion’ were just code words for intolerance and discrimination. Now a representative of the US government is saying the same thing. From the Washington Times: The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said that “religious freedom” and […]
Should pastors actually endorse political candidates from the pulpit? Since the Johnson administration the IRS has ‘selectively’ tried to ban that practice and those who believe in the so-called ‘separation of church and state’ continue to oppose it. Yet it still happens in many black churches across America. Also, many conservatives believe that a ‘originalist’ […]
