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A Chicago church has announced it will be 'fasting from whiteness' for Lent by abstaining from performing any hymns composed or written by Caucasian musicians. The First United Church of Oak Park announced that for 2022 the church would do a mix of 'giving something up' and 'taking something on' for Lent by not using music written or composed by white people but instead focus on music from other cultures.

Maggie Drew’s dad sent her to Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch in Missouri in 2007, hoping strict Christian teachings would stop his 14-year-old daughter’s teenage rebellion. Instead, Drew said, she found herself in a nightmare, sexually abused by one of the boarding school’s founders and left with permanent spinal injuries after a fall from a hay barn for which she received no medical attention. Just 25 miles away at another Christian boarding school, Brett Harper says he endured abuse that included staff members stomping on his back. He said his injuries required two spinal surgeries and left him disabled. They...

A comic about social Credit system. This comes from a fairly new convert to the Christian faith, but anyone not Christian can see this is how society is heading. Lovely People Comic

With a bang of a gavel in 1973, 63 million fellow Americans were condemned to die. And the number keeps growing. Now if the Senate confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, another pro-abortion justice will be added to the Supreme Court. Last week, Judge Jackson, nominated by Biden to the Supreme Court, faced four days of hearings in the Senate. South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham raised an intriguing point to her: “Every group that wants to pack the court, that believes the court is a bunch of right-wing nuts who are going to destroy America, that considers the Constitution ‘trash’—all...

RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS—Here is America's only soldier to ever receive Israel’s highest honor conferred on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. On this day 77 years ago, facing the threat of immediate execution, he and his men displayed an act of courage and character that exemplifies what it means to take a stand against evil. US Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, the “Golden Lions”, was captured by German forces at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. A native of Knoxville, TN, Edmonds was 25 years old....

Big T EnergyWhen the church falls captive to woke ideology, secular truth-tellers win the day.Few things are more surprising to a church lady like myself than to find better sense about sex and gender coming from a foul-mouthed cable talk show than from our current crop of evangelical thought leaders. But such is the state of the world these days—the crude pagan speaks plain wisdom while the churchmen discourse in the inscrutable, hedging language of feminist accommodation.Bill Maher’s March 25 monologue on women’s reaction to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky offered the kind of politically incorrect truth that certain progressive Christian...

A 71-year-old became Britain's first official witch after she was given unique permission to declare the job on her tax forms, including claiming spells and potions on expenses. Cassandra Latham-Jones, 71, was allowed to register as a self-employed 'village witch', using the term when she files tax returns with the inland revenue. It means she can also write off certain expenses as tax deductible, including ingredients for potions.

Mosques in Minneapolis will now be able to broadcast the “Adhan,” or public call for prayer, multiple times each day. In a move pushed for by Councilmember Jamal Osman, mosques will not need to apply for permits to broadcast outside their doors if noise ordinances are followed. “This is huge. This is huge to many people who call Minneapolis home,” Osman said. Prior to the change, many members of Minneapolis’ Muslim community relied on alarms and timers to know the proper time to pray – a practice done five times throughout each day. “In our faith, it is obligatory,” said...

After reading the consecration, the pope placed flowers before the statue of Mary and censed it. Young children joined the pope as the Immaculata hymn was sung. 11:40 a.m. Pope Francis consecrates humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart The pope recites the consecration prayer, beginning, "O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you." 11:29 a.m. Mass held at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley is saying a Mass for the consecration, concelebrated by Father Yaroslav Nalysnyk,...

“I don’t want to retire at the age of 29,” Freedom said. “Sometimes,” he added, “sacrifice is a very important word, so there are bigger things.” Source: Sopan Deb @ New York Times SNIP “I already have an offer. I’m just trying to figure out what is going to happen with this basketball thing,” Kanter responded when asked about a possible in-ring career. “Obviously, I’m 29 and I want to play another like seven years in this league. I’m just going to figure out my basketball career first and then see what’s going to happen but I already have an...

Who Represents You? Biblically speaking, salvation means one thing. It is Jesus Christ becoming a part of your life. Not just any part of your life, but the part of your life that does for you what you cannot ever do for yourself…stand before God, blameless, and no longer due the penalty you owe for sin. Are Christian people perfect? No, far from it. In fact, their sin is worse than most Christ less people since they know the truth, and choose to sin anyway. Whereas, for a person without Christ in their life, their spiritual nature IS to sin....

War Without End, Amen Peace and rest are the enemy in the progressive war against the natural order. I have often complained that the self-styled progressive of our time never tells us where he wants to go. Progress implies a destination, and rest—sweet and blessed rest—once you have arrived. But that would imply a natural human order to return to, or to attain. And then what? Then what? The progressive sweats. He neither believes in a natural order, nor comes to terms with fallen man and his imperfection. If peace is, as Augustine says, the tranquility of order, the progressive...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joked that the Catholic Church would "like to throw me out" due to her support of abortion rights during an event at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Tuesday night, The Daily Wire reports."It isn't about 'What is your religious belief?' It's 'What is the right of people to make their own decisions about the sizing and time — or if — they're going to have a family," Pelosi said, her hands visibly shaking. "This really gets me burned up — in case you didn't notice — because, again, I'm very Catholic. Devout, practicing, all...

A question for fellow conservatives: What exactly do we stand for? The left’s recent wave of culture war victories seems to have not only discouraged our commentators from talking about homosexuality, but also softened their conviction that it’s a grave offense against God and nature. Progressives know that a neighbor’s “gay marriage,” Hollywood portrayals of same-sex romance, and adoption celebrations for same-sex couples, do in fact impact conservatives and society writ large. Their activism emphasizes the social sphere because, like conservatives, they’re realistic about the impact of social signals and role models in communities. That’s why it matters when movement...

Worshippers at a Canada mosque have confronted and restrained a man who was allegedly wielding an axe and attacked them with bear spray during Saturday morning prayers, police say. One worshipper knocked the axe from the man's hands, and held him down until police arrived, local media reports. A 24-year-old man was arrested at the scene in the suburb of Mississauga, and he has since been charged. Some congregants had minor injures from the bear spray, the mosque's imam said. One of the worshippers said the experience was "terrifying" and described hearing a scream before turning around to see a...

In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border. This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned westward, attacking and displacing tribes throughout These tribes migrated further west, overrunning the western borders of the Roman Empire: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Alemanni, Thuringians, Rugians, Jutes, Picts, Burgundians, Lombards, Alans, and Vandals. Rome had to withdraw its Legions from other areas of the Empire, such as Britain, in order to place them along the Roman border. This left Britain, which had been a...

The more one delves into history, the more one is humbled by what one doesn’t know. Case in point... March 15 is the anniversary of the beginning of a naval campaign fought between two colonial powers in the year 1646 half-a-world away from Europe. Having grown up in an English-speaking country, I often catch myself adopting the conventional historical view of the British navy as presented in literature and film as an unconquerable force. Their most common foes—the Spanish and the French—are normally presented as formidable but hapless. They are numerous enough to appear to be a challenge, but ineptitude,...

Hope in the Healer. Recently during a warming spell, I was glad when I heard the peepers started to sing and it was a first sign that spring was on its way here. In side our home, I took down cozy plaid winter curtains and put up soft pastel floral curtains to see the hazy play of light in a soft glow. Recently, while we were having our morning worship time, we heard a thump against the window. My husband went out and he found an injured young male Cardinal. I watched as he picked it up with such tenderness,...

The gravesite of Mordechai and Esther An exchange of letters dating back to the year 1968, on display now in the National Library in honor of the upcoming festival of Purim, shows that representatives of Iranian Jewry sought to purchase the gravesite of Mordechai and Esther in the city of Hamedan, in western Iran, and that the Shah was amenable to their request. The letters, quoted by Israel Hayom, reveal the negotiations between representatives of the Jewish community in Iran and the Shah, who ruled the country until the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The representatives sought to purchase the...

Typical Arabic error by Arab-Nazi "Palestinians" in their swastika drawing. The Arab "Palestinian" "actvist" drew two swastikas. One on the red part if the flag and another on the white part. The latter has a typical Arabic error... Two thirds of Muslims in Puerto Rico are "Palestinian". (According to Ken Chitwood, University of Florida, on June 23, 2017, at The Conversation.) ______ StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) Tweeted: DISGUSTING - a sign in the heavily Jewish populated area of Candado, Puerto Rico was changed from "Israel #1" to "Free Palestine F*ck Israel" with a swastika inside the Palestinian flag. Feb 13, 2021....