“The anti-abortion movement itself has enough resources in its organizations and PACs to create a bipartisan, multi-racial anti-abortion majority…. Instead, the movement prefers a costlier and riskier one-party approach…The past four years were a hard pill for a nonwhite pro-lifer or a good Catholic of any color to swallow but barely troubled Big Pro Life at all.” - RNS

“Democrats are inaccurately accusing Republican election reform efforts–designed to address some of Trump’s complaints–as ‘voter suppression.’ But here is an actual case of voter suppression, only Trump is suppressing his own voters!” - Veith

Read Part 1.

“Since his appointment in May, Gerson Moreno-Riaño… has allegedly opposed diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and created a culture of fear by firing staff and professors with little or no warning.” - Roys Report

Related: What is going on at Cornerstone University?

“Why were evangelicals as lonesome as everyone else before COVID-19, but less so after?” - C.Today

“…there’s an even deeper flaw in our thinking. Worship is not an evangelistic tool. We don’t worship together to attract unbelievers.” - C. Leaders

On “the recent announcement from the Washington, D.C., branch of Sunrise, a national climate action group, that they would be pulling out of a voting rights rally because ‘a number of Zionist organizations’ will be participating.” - RNS

“Another sentence that is never far from my mind came from Francis Schaeffer in No Little People: ‘We must do the Lord’s work in the Lord’s way’ (74). I believe this is the defining issue in our generation, and in every generation.” - Ray Ortlund

“Killing sin is the focus of the Christ follower until the time they see Jesus face to face.” - Tim McKnight

By all indications, conservative Christians have strife and conflict on their minds these days. But do we understand what sort of war we’re in, who the enemy is, and how we’re supposed to fight?

I’d love to do some man-on-the street interviews at a conservative evangelical event and ask, “Who or what are Christians at war with?” Answers would probably include “the world,” and “the devil.” Someone might quip, “one another!”

I suspect many would say “the Left,” and many who said “the world” would have the Left in mind.

We will be visiting Phoenix next month and I’m wondering if anyone here is from the area or if anyone knows of a good church to visit. Thanks!

“Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and Ligon Duncan, chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary, shared the news in a video posted to T4G.org.” - BPNews

See also Christianity Today and TGC.

“Generation Z (1997–2012) is my generation…. For my generation, the events of two weeks ago often seem devoid of significance, much less 2,000 years ago (or anything in between).” - TGC

“Chances are, your emails never go away. If you use Gmail for instance, Google has stated that they still keep the emails you delete. With other email apps or servers I don’t know, but if I was you, I would think about email as something that lives out there beyond my ‘delete’ button.” - Cooke

“If Jesus found it necessary to withdraw from the crowds to pray, how much more do we need those times of silence and solitude with the Lord.” - McKnight

James White: Dr. Piper has a form of tunnel vision that causes him not to see (or to entirely dismiss) vital and important worldview issues that go beyond the moment of his spiritual vision.

“Lawyers for Georgia pastor Mike Stone filed a complaint Monday (Oct. 18) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee accusing former Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore of defamation, false light invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.” - RNS

Related at Church Leaders: Mike Stone Seeking $750k in Defamation Lawsuit Against Russell Moore

Podcast: “…the term ‘elite’. Is it positive or is it a term of derision? Elites, and especially Evangelical elites, have been criticized a lot lately. Giving this matter some consideration, we offer our thoughts, turning the focus both internally and externally, with both positive and negative critiques.” - Kevin DeYoung

“The uproar over Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special has ramifications for Christian institutions in the U.S., argues Dr. Al Mohler….Chappelle targets multiple people groups with his special, but is making headlines mainly for his crude jokes about trans individuals, jokes many see as harmful.” - C.Leaders

“The inner ‘workings’ of the Trinity are mysterious to us; we cannot really know them. But, of the two major theological (not Sunday School) analogies, I prefer the social analogy or model of the Trinity” - Roger Olson

“The Founders worried about ‘factionalism’ becoming tyranny, but thought the nation so large and scattered that it would be impossible for the ‘like-minded’ to come together for evil ends. But modern social and mass media have helped turn citizens into mobs determined to destroy their political enemies. Do we have anything in common anymore?” - Acton

Since the 9/11 attack on twin towers, many Christians have been quick to contrast the violent tactics of Islamic Jihad with the gentler tendencies of Christian evangelism. For example, in an article entitled, “Christian or Muslim: What’s the difference?” Lutheran scholar Alvin Schmidt has argued,

Jihad is totally contrary to what Christ taught when he told Peter to put away his sword, or when he told individuals to turn the other cheek. Unlike Muslims, Christians have no command to advance their religion by killing unbelievers. Quite the opposite.¹

“He explained one motivation some pastors have for remaining silent. ‘Rather than reminding their church, in the name of “humility,” many pastors just soldier on, trying to convince themselves that they don’t need to feel appreciated.’” - C.Leaders

“The people I have especially in view are those who are not vaccinated because of fear of being out of step with people they respect, and in step with people they don’t admire. My message to them is simple: You are free.” - Desiring God

“The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) sent a letter expressing its opposition to the absence of the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life protections in the nine remaining spending measures for fiscal year 2022 unveiled Monday (Oct. 18).” - BPNews

“…while Jesus is neither a Democrat nor Republican, there are things he taught about morality, the state, and the church which a believer should factor into his political, social, and cultural thinking and practice.” - J.P. Moreland

“…these recent crises have had a spiritually clarifying effect on them. This generation has a spiritual hunger and a desire to grow into disciples prepared to engage a turbulent world.” - C.Today

King Manasseh was one of ungodliest kings to ever rule over God’s people. The biblical record of his wickedness includes explicit statements that show that he was profoundly involved in the occult:

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

He was so wicked that he even made God’s people to err and do worse than the heathen:

“New law puts additional requirements on any religious leader who was trained abroad.” - C.Today

“A Pew Research study finds 64% of Americans who typically attend church at least monthly attended a religious service in person in September 2021—up from 43% in March 2021 and 33% in July 2020.” - Lifeway