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Goodwin was one of the co-founders of the influential Christian rap group The Cross Movement,..“I sent a letter to my church withdrawing my membership and saying that I am denouncing the Christian faith that I have believed, professed, proclaimed, and defended for the last 30 years,”...“I literally told God, ‘If I find one more thing in the scriptures that doesn’t have a good explanation without resorting to having to bend over backwards and hop over barrels to explain it—I might lose my faith,”...“It got to the point where the liberal dudes were the ones bringing the most comfort because they...

"There is no such thing as transgender," MacArthur said at the pulpit on Sunday. You are either XX or XY, that's it. God made man male and female. That is determined genetically, that is physiology, that is science, that is reality."...Pastors and church leaders expressed concern that the broad language in Canada's C-4 Bill, which went into effect on January 8, could lead to the prohibition of sermons on biblical sexuality.... MacArthur and 4,000 other pastors took to the pulpit on Sunday and preached on biblical sexuality...YouTube removed MacArthur's sermon from its platform and rendered the message as "hate speech."

A group of fans at the Australian Open were asked by security to remove custom T-shirts that read, “Where is Peng Shuai?” on Saturday. The shirts — referencing the disappearance of the Chinese tennis player after she made sexual assault allegations against a retired government official in November — were apparently a violation of the tournament’s policy. "Under our ticket conditions of entry we don't allow clothing, banners or signs that are commercial or political," a Tennis Australia spokesperson said, via ESPN. "Peng Shuai's safety is our primary concern. We continue to work with the WTA and global tennis community...

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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1:5 (King James Version) If King Fauxi is so worried about transmission of the covid virus, why is he allowing our Olympic team to go to China? You have everyone from five months on up terrified of catching the Omnicrock which is a mild cold, yet America is sending athletes to the source of all of this chaos where it is reported to have an Ebola type virus epidemic. It only once again...

A Michigan school superintendent debunked the rumor after a video from a December school board meeting resurfaced in which a speaker airs concerns about students who “identify as cats.” It started with a comment at a school board meeting, which was later amplified by a Michigan state Republican leader, and culminated with a school superintendent explaining that, no, there were no litter boxes on school grounds for students to use if they identified as furries. “It is unconscionable that this afternoon I am sending this communication,” the superintendent of Midland Public Schools, Michael Sharrow, wrote on Thursday in an email...

One Pennsylvania school board member has a message for parents: "No, I don't work for you." York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote an op-ed in the York Dispatch explaining his claim.

The recent New York City law to allow at least 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections is unconstitutional and likely to be overturned in court, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s election law reform initiative and former member of the Federal Election Commission. “It’s actually pretty clear that it violates the New York State Constitution—it has a provision that specifically says that you have to be a citizen to vote in all elections in the state of New York, and that includes local elections,” Spakovsky told The Epoch Times on Jan. 19. “I also think it...

One of the most common questions about biblical interpretation is how much of the Bible ought to be taken “literally.” That’s a tricky question to answer, because the word literal actually has two distinct (but related) meanings. When the Catechism of the Catholic Church talks about the literal sense of Scripture, it’s referring to “the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation” (116). It’s in this sense that the Church endorses St. Thomas Aquinas’s adage that “all other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal.” So if we...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Republicans have passed a revised version of a state legislative district plan, voting on Saturday to send the plan to the Ohio Supreme Court for review and possible approval. The maps, approved by a party-line vote for the May primary election, favor Republicans to win 57 of 99 House districts and 20 of 33 Senate districts. The proportion of seats, 58%, is similar to a plan the Ohio Supreme Court identified as unconstitutional in its order striking the previous set down earlier this month for disproportionately favoring Republicans. They also favor Democrats to win more seats...

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•Windows THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE WHOSE RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AS HIGHLY-TOUTED AS IS NOAH'S: "Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God." Genesis 6:9 "The Lord said to Noah, "I have found you righteous in this generation."" Genesis 7:1 "…if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord." Ezekiel 14:14 "By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his...

While most Americans have never heard of it, the Interior Department’s five-year plan for offshore energy development is essential to maintaining our basic standard of living and keeping the prices for thousands of everyday goods and services low. At a time of record inflation and sky-high energy costs, it is critical that the Biden Administration show its energy and environmental leadership by moving forward with this offshore energy plan. Since 1953, the U.S. Interior Secretary has been required by law to prepare a five-year plan to set a schedule for oil and gas leases in U.S. offshore waters. It is...

Most comments at this site tend to have a perspective generally consistent with my own. But sometimes a post will attract comments from people with a very different point of view. That occurred on a post earlier this week titled “Two More Contributions On The impossibility Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar, And Batteries.” That post and the one immediately preceding it (“Calculating The Full Costs Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar, And Batteries”) had both focused on a particular issue inherent in the project of replacing dispatchable carbon-based sources of energy (coal, oil, natural gas) with intermittent...

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano has nothing to do with climate change. Despite some arguments that the two phenomenons are inter-related, there is no clear evidence of the connection. That’s the view of two renowned geologist who’ve lived and worked in the region for several years. Even the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also noted that volcanic eruptions are often discussed in relation to climate change. This was largely because of the release of CO2 (and other gases) into our atmosphere. However, it pointed out that human contributions to the carbon cycle are more...

A teacher in New York could be facing jail time after being accused of giving what's speculated to be the COVID-19 vaccine to her neighbor's 17-year-old son. Laura Parker Russo could face up to four years in prison if found guilty of giving the vaccine to the teen without the consent of the parents. Russo pleaded not guilty in court to felony charges of Unauthorized Practice of a Profession. Russo, a tenth grade biology teacher, allegedly gave the vaccine to the teenager inside her home on New Year's Eve. The teen wanted to vaccine against his parents wishes. The district...

The following email was sent to the more than 150 priests of the diocese of Perugia, Italy, on December 24, 2021. Dear fellow priest, With the coronavirus, we see each other seldom, and with the social distancing, we speak with each other very little! Thus we share very little of our thoughts as priests in the same diocese! I would like to, at least in this occasion of Christmas, to share with you some of my thoughts that are very much on my heart. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting...

There is a great whittling going on. It is a pastime as old as mankind. It is not the sort practiced by retired codgers sitting on front porches with pocket knives carving wooden artifacts for their grandchildren. The great whittling is the relentless shaving away of mankind's free agency. As I watch the TV series 1883 unfold, I am impressed how deep our need for freedom truly is and how the world seems to go out of its way to ankle our best efforts to live our lives on our own terms. Actor Sam Elliot, as the world-worn wagon master,...

Who Ray Epps is, is well known. What Ray Epps is and what he was doing in Washington, DC, on January 6, has become something of a mystery, but the biggest mystery of all is, "what the hell is up with the Democrats and Ray Epps?"

KRASNOILSK, Ukraine (AP) — Dressed as goats, bears, oxen and cranes, many Ukrainians ring in the new year in the colorful rituals of the Malanka holiday. Malanka, which draws on pagan folk tales, marks the new year according to the Julian calendar, meaning it falls on Jan. 13-14. In the festivities, celebrants go from house to house, where the dwellers offer them food.

I worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms until two years ago when I retired early. I could see what was coming when they began to push a new program called D&I – Diversity and Inclusiveness. For those of you who have not endured this, it is an intriguing blend of CRT laced heavily with an attempt to implement quotas in the workplace. Many companies have hired high priced talent to head up their D&I programs. Mandatory training is the initial thrust of these efforts. You are forced to sit down and talk about your racial and sexual...