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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?
The World Is Approaching "Tank Bottoms" - Very Painful Oil Shortages Are Ahead
Even since the war with Iran began, the world has been consuming far more oil than it has been producing. We have been running down commercial oil inventories and strategic oil reserves all over the planet, and now those supplies are starting to run dry.
The AI Wars: A Society Divided By The Rise Of The Machines
A new kind of conflict is emerging--one that pits technology enthusiasts, AI developers, and corporate interests against growing numbers of citizens who view artificial intelligence as an existential threat to their jobs, their communities, their privacy, and perhaps even their future.
The Queers For Palestine Paradox: 10,000 Celebrate Pride In Jerusalem
This week, more than 10,000 participants marched through the streets of Jerusalem during the city's annual Pride Parade, one of the largest LGBT events in the Middle East. The event was supported by government officials, protected by law enforcement, covered positively by major media outlets, and celebrated openly in the heart of Israel's capital.
New York Wants To Erase "Mother" And "Father" From Law
In New York, Democrats are advancing legislation that would remove the terms "mother" and "father" from portions of state law governing child custody and parental rights. Under the proposal, "mother" would become "gestating parent," "father" would become "non-gestating parent".
