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Leaving Pro-Gay Theology for True Faith
Joe Dallas shares the challenges he faced as a young Christian who also embraced a homosexual lifestyle. After years as a “gay Christian” activist, Joe eventually found hope and healing through honest relationships at a bible-believing church.
Read MoreChurch attendance didn’t predict antisemitism. Theology did.
In my survey of more than 1,000 young Christian men, church attendance did not predict antisemitic attitudes. What they believed about God’s promises to the Jewish people did.
Read MoreHalf a Billion Christians Around the World Can’t Access the Bible, New Analysis Shows
While technology has greatly expanded the availability of Scripture, a perfect storm of calamities has kept the Bible out of the hands of half a billion Christians around the globe.
Read More5 faith-filled, family-friendly movies streaming this fall
As the weather cools, viewers looking for faith-filled, family-friendly entertainment will find several films making their way to streaming platforms, with stories of faith, courage, redemption, family and purpose.
Read MorePope Leo XIV honors Harvard scientist whose pursuit of knowledge led her to faith
Karin Öberg holds the Thomas Dudley Cabot Chair in the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and directs the Öberg Astrochemistry Laboratory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Read MoreOregon Mom Challenges School District over Christian Curriculum Reimbursement Ban
A legal battle is unfolding just outside Portland, Oregon, over whether a school district can refuse reimbursements for homeschool curriculum based on its religious influence. Tessa Bulzan, a mother of five young children, is challenging the district’s policy in court.
Read MoreReligious Young Men Are Happier, Healthier, and More Successful
Marriage rates for 18- to 29-year-old men have dropped considerably in the last 60 years, and the majority of these men feel isolated or lonely at least some of the time (as we found in in Parts 1 and 2 of America’s Demoralized Men). Around 4 in 10 young men have fewer than three close friends, according to our research, and around half believe that no matter how hard they work, people like them “will never achieve the American dream.”
Read MoreLatter-day Saint volunteers become homebuilders for charity in Romania
‘The natural yearning of a disciple is to do the kinds of things that Jesus Himself would do if He were here’
Read MoreWhat Justin Verlander And C.S. Lewis Tell Us About Morality
Ethics and morality center around the everyday, tactile events that concern our knowledge and pursuit of what is genuinely good.
Read MoreThe Friendship That Changed International Religious Freedom for America and the World
A friendship begun in 1985, forged in shared Christian faith and encounters with human misery driven by animus toward religion, would become the ground on which a historic legacy would be built. And, I’m happy to add, Chris Smith and Frank Wolf are not done building it. As individuals, their accomplishments would prove immense by any metric. But the bonds of their friendship have enabled a legacy that far surpasses the sum of what they have done individually. In the years to come, may American leaders honor these architects of modern U.S. religious freedom policy by more fully pursuing their vision of religious freedom for everyone, everywhere.
Read More‘We Want Islam For This Country’: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America
Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center
Read MoreCoalition urges care for freedom of religion and speech
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are deeply interwoven, and a threat to one is a danger to the other, representatives from more than 20 faith and civil rights organizations said.
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