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The war of words between Turkey and Israel is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Turkish leaders are openly speaking about ruling Jerusalem, threatening Israel, and positioning themselves as champions of the Islamic world against the Jewish state.
With the rate of religious practice among young people in the U.S. at levels significantly below older generations, concerns are growing over a likely future America of diminished church attendance and a higher proportion of morally ungrounded citizens.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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."
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.
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