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A Texas prosecutor says a former Southern Baptist youth pastor sexually abused children in a “violent way” and is a “danger to society.” Luke Cunningham, 41, remains in the Lubbock County jail held on $500,000 bail on a complaint of sexually aggravated sexual assault and two counts of child sexual assault. As reported earlier by The Roys Report (TRR) these accusations coincide with when Cunningham served as the student pastor at Turning Point Community Church in Lubbock from 2016 to 2020. Cunningham has been at the center of a Lubbock Police Department investigation for sexual misconduct since 2021. As first...

Northside Christian Academy, a private Christian school founded in 1961 and operated as a ministry of North Side Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, is no longer in operation due to low enrollment following a brawl at a high school basketball game with a rival team in January. Former parents and staff at the school revealed that the brawl at the basketball game was simply one of a long list of challenges that led to the school announcing in May that it was closing the K-12 school, according to The Charlotte Observer. “Unfortunately due to, but not limited to, low...

In what can only be described as a clown show, ladypastrix and imbecile, Jen Strickland of Claremont United Church of Christ has redefined absurdity with her sermon. She claims, “Reproductive rights, as it turns out, have been under attack since 1500 BCE,” and that the Egyptian midwives were champions of “girl power” for defying Pharaoh. This nonsensical take is an insult to anyone with a modicum of common decency. Strickland asserts that Shipra and Pua in Exodus 1 were defending reproductive rights by deceiving Pharaoh. In reality, these women actually feared God and would be rolling over in their graves...

In what has seemed like the floodgates of justice and exposure pouring over a pantheon of perverse megachurch pastors over the last few months, another impostor has been exposed, with Zachary King of LexCity Church in Lexington, KY, being the last perp. According to the arrest citation, King admitted that he “engaged in a sexual relationship with a minor over the course of the last year and a half.” The victim was 15 years old, and he admitted to having “sexual intercourse in the minor’s home, at his residence, and at the church where he was a former pastor.” According...

The Meeting House church in Oakville, ON, which disgraced pastor Bruxy Cavey once led, is shutting down for a month after being unable to find abuse insurance following nearly 40 different reports of sexual abuse against four pastors within the church. Bruxy Cavey is one of the country’s most recognizable religious leaders. Far from being orthodox, he is also a false teacher who denies penal substitutionary atonement, biblical inerrancy, the eternality of hell, has an unbiblical view of the sin of homosexuality, and displays an affinity for open-theism. In 2021, Cavey was released from his position at The Meeting House,...

4 July 2024 Thursday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeSt Elizabeth of Portugal Church, Richmond, LondonReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 7:10-17The Lord took me from herding the flock and sent me to prophesyAmaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel as follows. ‘Amos is plotting against you in the heart of the House of Israel; the country can no longer tolerate what he keeps saying. For this is what he says, “Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel go into exile far from its country.”’ To Amos, Amaziah said, ‘Go...

The United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant denomination known for its progressive stance on social issues, faces a significant decline in membership according to a recent report by the UCC Center for Analytics. From 2012 to 2022, the denomination lost over 286,000 members and 551 congregations, marking a continuing trend over several decades. Six decades have seen a dramatic decline in UCC membership, with numbers plummeting from over 2.24 million in 1960 to just 712,000 in 2022. This decline is partially attributed to a 2005 resolution supporting same-sex marriage, which caused some congregations to leave the UCC. The...

Burge’s May 9, 2023 tweets begin with a recap of the story I’ve shared: the PC(USA) declined from 3.1 million members to 1.1 million members in less than 40 years. He then explains that it is actually worse than those numbers suggest because the rate of decline has “accelerated significantly” in recent years rising from around 1.5% to 4%. If this continues, the denomination will fall below 1 million members by 2030 and below 500 thousand by 2040. Burge concludes, “there’s a good chance they have to dissolve in less than 20 years.” We’ve been talking about the seriousness...

"And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." "He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward." "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the...

“Relatable” podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey spoke with Live Action founder and president Lila Rose for the latest in Live Action’s Exclusives series. After discussing Stuckey’s career beginnings, which includes over six years, nearly 1,000 episodes, and three children, she said, “I just feel more passionate than ever in talking about the things that we do, because as you know better than anyone, these issues are a matter of life and death.” They noted that hearts and minds are still changing through pro-life work, and Rose said that Stuckey stands out as someone who unapologetically opposes abortion, no matter the...

Wednesday 3 July 2024 Saint Thomas, Apostle Feast St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Ann Arbor, MIReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).First readingEphesians 2:19-22In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like usYou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being...

"Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of...

CV NEWS FEED// A controversial, explicit statue of the Blessed Mother giving birth was decapitated only four days after it was displayed in the “New Cathedral,” in the Austrian city of Linz. The statue depicted the Blessed Mother in the moments before birth, with her abdomen and lower body completely exposed. The statue was part of an exhibition celebrating the New Cathedral’s 100th anniversary, the news agency Kronen Zeitung reports. Completed in 1924, the cathedral is the largest in Austria, and it can fit up to 20,000 people. Theologian Martina Resch explained during the exposition that the statue “is a...

2 July 2024 Tuesday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Resting place of Saint Bernardino Realino in Jesuit Church of Jesus, Lecce Italy BReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 3:1-8,4:11-12It is for all your sins that I mean to punish youListen, sons of Israel, to this oracle the Lord speaks against you, against the whole family I brought out of the land of Egypt:You alone, of all the families of earth, have I acknowledged,therefore it is for all your sins that I mean to punish you.Do two men take the road togetherif they have not planned to...

"And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!" "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; "That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by...

1 July 2024 Monday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeSerra Chapel at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, CaliforniaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 2:6-10,13-16Because of your crimes I will crush you into the groundThe Lord says this:For the three crimes, the four crimes, of IsraelI have made my decree and will not relent:because they have sold the virtuous man for silverand the poor man for a pair of sandals,because they trample on the heads of ordinary peopleand push the poor out of their path,because father and son have both resorted to the same girl,profaning my holy name,because...

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto...

30 June 2024 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Nonnberg Abbey, Salzburg, Austria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingWisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24God takes no pleasure in the extinction of the livingDeath was not God’s doing,he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living.To be – for this he created all;the world’s created things have health in them,in them no fatal poison can be found,and Hades holds no power on earth;for virtue is undying.Yet God did make man imperishable,he made him in the image of his own nature;it was the devil’s envy that brought death into the world,as those who are...

Saturday 29 June 2024 Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Solemnity Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in PhiladelphiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).These readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feast.These readings are for the day of the feast itself.These readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feast.First readingActs 3:1-10I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus, walk!Once, when Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the prayers at the ninth hour, it happened that there was a man being carried past....

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: "(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord." Matthew 6 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2...