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Reverend Howard-John Wesley received a minute-long standing ovation from his congregants yesterday, a week after his nasty anti-Charlie Kirk sermon went viral. We previously wrote about him after he used used Proverbs 30 to argue in FAVOR of LGBTQ relationships. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Wesley, the senior pastor of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Virginia, preached last week in a widely circulated message: “Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, but I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an...

St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church is a small church in New Orleans, LA, that is sparsely populated with a couple dozen octogenarians. It is led by Rev. Marc J. Boswell, who earned an M.Div. from Union Presbyterian Seminary. According to his church bio: A student of liberation theologies, Marc’s ministry and academic work have focused on the church’s pursuit of justice and healing in solidarity with the marginalized. He turns frequently to the writings of liberation theologians and the Christian mystics, along with the writings from Buddhist and Jewish traditions. Fully LGBTQ inclusive, thee church is affiliated with the Association...

In the beginning, there was an obscene chant at the Talladega Superspeedway that NBC producers urgently needed to ignore during a live broadcast. Interviewing winner Brandon Brown, reporter Kelli Stavast pretended the NASCAR crowd was chanting, "Let's go Brandon!" – not cursing President Joe Biden. The rest is history, as the wink-wink slogan soaked into political jargon and mass media. What shocked the Rev. Seth Carter – a young Southern Baptist pastor in Kentucky – was when church people began baptizing "Let's go Brandon!" into common speech. "To be clear, I am no supporter of our president's actions or policies....

Proverbs 9 NKJV The Way of Wisdom 1Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; 2 She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table. 3 She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 5 “Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding. 7 “He...