China announces yet another crackdown on religious freedom
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“China will enforce new restrictions on religious groups, organizations, meetings, and other related events starting on February 1.” - Catholic Herald
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“China will enforce new restrictions on religious groups, organizations, meetings, and other related events starting on February 1.” - Catholic Herald
“Over the centuries, Christian thinkers from Augustine to Aquinas to the Reformers—seeking to reconcile Christian teaching on the sanctity of human life with the Christian responsibility to love our neighbors by protecting them from evil—have proposed a set of conditions by which a violent act can be considered justified.” - Christian Post
“Lost in all the cheering emanating from his supporters, President Trump’s boasting stands in stark contrast with one of my favorite passages in the Bible – Joshua 5:13-15.” - John Ellis
“The stats that Siegel cites are bleak: anxiety ‘rose 36 percent’ between 2016 and 2017, while America’s ‘suicide rate increased by 33 percent between 1999 and 2017.’” - Intellectual Takeout
John Dwyer is a gay Episcopal priest who is married to another man. Dwyer’s book is a valuable survey of the revisionist interpretations of Genesis 19, Judges 19, Leviticus 18 and 20, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, and 1 Timothy 1. Dwyer makes no original contributions and produces his survey of the texts on a five-step process:
“The assertion [that Trump is the most pro-life president in modern times] has become one of the most unexamined talking points in pro-life activism. But is it true? And, more importantly, does it matter?” - TGC
“Currently, in Massachusetts, abortion is legal until the age of fetal viability…. This new legislation, known as the “Roe Act,” would extend abortion access past 24 weeks gestation. The bill defines “health” very broadly” - Faithwire
“Both sides of the “Christian America” debate employ the same strategy: posit a world in which everyone is either a Christian or a deist, show the American founders weren’t in your opponent’s camp, and then claim, as a result, that they must’ve been in yours.” - TGC
“Anti-Semitic attacks are increasing at an alarming rate in the New York area, and NBC New York seems to think Hasidic and Orthodox Jews have somehow created this problem by … living there.” - W. Post
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