SBC's Moore and Floyd welcome Barrett nomination
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“Southern Baptist leaders Russell Moore and Ronnie Floyd commended President Trump’s nomination Saturday (Sept. 26) of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.” - BPNews
“Although 61% of American millennials consider themselves to be Christian, just 2% of them were found to hold a biblical worldview”
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“While millennials have shown the most radical shift away from the Bible, other generations did not fare much better. Only an estimated 9% of adults in both the Elder (75 and older) and Boomer generations (56 to 74 years of age) hold a biblical worldview.” - C.Post
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Character, or Competence?
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“Every so often, a friend and I indulge a favorite argument. The debate is over what matters more when it comes to leadership: Character, or competence? While we both have similar worldviews, I have contended that character matters more, while my friend argues for the greater worth of competence.” - Ref21
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Capitol Hill Baptist Church sues D.C. on COVID order
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CHBC sued, “contending the district’s restrictions in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic violate the congregation’s First Amendment rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Dueling Anti-Racisms: Two Views on Promoting Racial Justice in Twenty-First Century America
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“Everyone who opposes racism agrees that people of all races are equal in virtue of their common humanity and deserving of equal respect and dignified treatment. They are also agreed that for much of our history, the dominant white population of the U.S. violated this fundamental truth….
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Do You Believe Israel's Agreement with UAE and Bahrain is Significant?
Who would have thought that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain would arrive at an agreement with Israel? Supposedly four or five other middle-eastern nations are negotiating similar agreements behind closed doors.
When it come to prophecy, SI participants hold various views, some of which leave no special place for Israel. The purpose of this question is not so much prophetic as it is historical and practical regarding the near future. Do you think Israel can have a decent peace with most of her neighbors and begin forming a “block” in the middle east?
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The Supreme Court Vacancy & the Pro-Life Cause
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“…the prospect of a conservative, pro-life Supreme Court has thrown pro-abortion liberals into a panic. In the hours after Justice Ginsburg’s death, record donations poured into the Democratic party, to the tune of $71 million. Both the pro-abortion and the anti-abortion sides are describing the Supreme Court vacancy as pivotal to their cause.” - Veith
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AEI report: Graduates of Protestant schools most likely to have intact marriages, fewer divorces
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“AEI’s Institute for Family Studies examined data from the Understanding America Study from 2015 and 2016, as well as the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, first conducted in 1997.
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Condemning Netflix's ‘Cuties’ Should Be Noncontroversial
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“…the film is attempting to critique rather than to celebrate the exploitative sexualizing of young girls. But by doing the very thing it critiques—repeatedly, gratuitously, horrifyingly—it undermines its point” - TGC
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U.S. Data Shows Increase In Youth Drug Use And Addiction
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“One of the disturbing findings was that some 699,000 youth aged 12-17 have an addiction to marijuana in 2019 – representing 187,000 new youth with a Cannabis Use Disorder in 2019 versus 2018. Overall, more than 4.8 million people aged 12 or older reported Marijuana Use Disorder in 2019, up from 4.4 million in 2018.” - MCDaily
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