The Church is a Subversive Society
The president of Southern Seminary is on record as saying that government funding for religious schools is wrong, that Baptists “consistently oppose” the public reading of Scripture in public schools, and he even agonized over whether it would “subsidize religion” for churches to be tax-exempt.1 This president is not Al Mohler, but his predecessor Edgar Mullins, writing in 1908. Some religious outsiders (and perhaps not a few Baptists) would be surprised to learn this.
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How the war in Ukraine dominated this year’s online searches for Bible verses
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“Ukrainians’ online engagement with the Bible rose by 55% …according to YouVersion.” Favorite verse: Isaiah 41:10 - RNS
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Sweden urges caution on puberty blockers, transgender surgeries in updated health guidance
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“The report calls for ensuring such measures are done ‘within the framework of research,’ and pending a study assessing the surgery’s effectiveness, it should only be done in ‘exceptional cases.’” - CPost
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Engaging the Culture in the New Year: An Interview with Russell Moore
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“It’s easy to stand up and rail against other people’s sins in a way that can cause your congregation…to think ‘Man he is really hard against sin,’ when in reality, we’re just hard against other people’s sins” - Word by Word
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Reasons for despair — and hope — for traditional religious views’ place on campus
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“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, group that protects free speech on campus, recently tweeted out that ‘Christmas came early’ for MIT when their faculty approved a statement in favor of robust expression and academic freedom.” - RNS
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Director of nation's oldest pro-life org. steps down after 38 years
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“Executive Director David N. O’Steen will step down from the position that he has held since 1984 on Saturday. He will continue working with NRLC in an advisory capacity.” - CPost
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Despite Ample Evidence, Christian Nationalism Mostly Absent From Final Jan. 6 Report
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“the committee’s final report, released late on Thursday (Dec. 22), an 845-page document, mentioned Christian nationalism by name exactly once, and only in passing.” - RNS
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Healing the lame, bringing sight to the blind? Elon Musk's ambitions for Neuralink raise questions
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“Musk announced he expects Neuralink to successfully develop a wireless brain chip and begin human clinical trials on such a device by mid-2023” - CPost
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False Narratives of Inequality: A Review of “The Myth of American Inequality”
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“they raise a pair of problems for the relatively poor caused by the fact that government redistribution currently brings the average income of the lowest fifth of the population to a point only minimally below that of the next fifth.” - Law & Liberty
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