It’s ironic, not to mention entertaining, that the very people who most enthusiastically embraced multiculturalism are the same people having the most difficulty navigating its consequences. The Liberal Democrats, for example, have tied themselves in knots, and even provoked a formal complaint to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, over local activists’ decision to remove […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week aimed at addressing antisemitism on college campuses, and it angered some prominent Christian Republicans in the process. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued that the bipartisan bill will harm Christians who interpret the Bible to mean that Jews put Jesus to death. She was among the […]
Eight years after polls began highlighting Christian support for then-candidate Donald Trump, this question still comes up, especially in more liberal circles: Are the Christians who vote for Trump, a twice-divorced man who engages in name-calling more often than he quotes the Bible, actually religious — or do they just describe themselves that way? Greg […]
For many in the Phoenix area, Easter Sunday fell on April 9, but some Valley Christians are observing the resurrection of Jesus Christ on May 5. Saint Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Phoenix is a 73-year-old house of worship located on East Monte Vista Road and North 16 Street. It is among approximately 10-12 […]
Ray Buursma’s recent article, ‘Religionists, stay in your lane’, is a command for Christians to stay outside the public square of ideas. Buursma’s directive is nothing new. Christians have even voluntarily put themselves in a ‘public square timeout’ because of the pressure from culture. Back in 1925, a high-stakes legal drama unfolded over the teaching […]
Apr. 11—GOSHEN — Clinton Christian School will host its 39th annual Auction and Spring Festival next weekend. Online bidding begins at 10 a.m. Monday. There will be kids’ carnival activities, baked goods, vendors, and more. More than 300 items will be auctioned off between the live and online auctions with a goal of raising $50,000 […]
For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than legalized […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen, preparing meals for Israeli soldiers. […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday reaffirmed Christians’ special relationship with Jews amid rising antisemitism since the outbreak of the Gaza war in a letter to the Jews of Israel that he said was prompted by messages from Jewish organizations around the world. The letter served as a belated fence-mending after Francis was […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Christians around the world were striving on Christmas Eve to put aside the worries and fears of an unsettled, war-torn world as they prepared to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Believers in Syria gathered Sunday in a country still suffering from the aftermath of a long civil war and […]
AIN EBEL, Lebanon (AP) — Christians in the border villages of south Lebanon prepared for a subdued Christmas under the shadow of the ongoing war in Gaza and its spillover in Lebanon. While in Beirut restaurants were packed and hundreds flocked to Christmas markets in the days leading up to the holiday, in the border […]
In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy prepared to try for the 12th time to win enough votes to become speaker of the House, a little-known Louisiana congressman named Mike Johnson joined a small group of his Republican colleagues in the empty legislative chamber to kneel in prayer. The lawmakers […]