I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
Dec 13, 2022 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...
John MacArthur is wrong about so much more than keeping …
Feb 14, 2023 · Mark Wingfield serves as executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global. He is the author of the new bookHonestly: Telling the Truth About the Bible and Ourselves.. Related articles: Why Women Talking has women talking and complementarian men fuming | Analysis by Rick Pidcock. Why evangelicals may be fearful of distancing themselves from John MacArthur | Opinion by Maina Mwaura
Lawyers admit: There’s no evidence for 2000 Mules election fraud …
Feb 19, 2024 · The film 2000 Mules made sensational claims: widespread election fraud had swung the 2020 election for Joe Biden. But lawyers defending the filmmakers have admitted in an Atlanta courtroom they didn’t have any evidence for these charges. The admission came last December but wasn’t reported until Wednesday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Associated Press.
Trump’s evangelical base believes God spared him from an …
But the most frequent spiritual references came from Trump’s evangelical supporters, including evangelist Franklin Graham, who is scheduled to pray at the Republican National Convention Thursday night. He told the Washington Post: “Trump came very close to having his brains spread over that platform but God, I believe, protected him.”. Another of …
87-year-old Ed Young steps down at Second Baptist Houston, to …
The Houston Chronicle and other local media outlets reported on Ed Young’s retirement announcement, which came at the end of last Sunday’s service at the Woodway campus, the main campus of the church. “We’re not stepping down, we’re stepping up to use our primary spiritual gifts,” the Chronicle quoted Young as saying through tears. “I’m stepping up to maximize what God has ...
Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be
Feb 14, 2023 · It is possible that Hebrew literature existed in some form well before 700 BCE, but we do not have those physical documents. The earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Bible are from the Dead Sea Scrolls, a set of texts found in the Qumran caves and that include both biblical and non-biblical manuscripts.These can be dated between the third and first centuries BCE.
An oft-quoted biblical scholar changes his mind on LGBTQ …
In 1996, Hays released Moral Vision of the New Testament and it quickly became a standard text for biblical scholars, theologians and ethicists alike. In the 16th chapter, Hays carefully works through the few relevant New Testament passages and concludes the witness of the New Testament is against homosexuality.
What’s happening to megachurch pastors in Dallas?
Megachurch pastors in Dallas are starting to drop like flies.. On June 9, Tony Evans stepped away for an unspecified period of time from the 10,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, a church he started in his living room and led for 48 years, explaining vaguely that he fell short of a standard “a number of years ago.” One week later, Mike Buster resigned as executive pastor of the 45,000 ...
The death and resurrection of Donald Trump: A warning
Apr 14, 2023 · The firm belief of far-right Republicans that Donald Trump is a God-anointed messianic figure, sent to save America from the wicked agenda of the Democrats to destroy our “traditional values” and establish a godless, anti-Christian government.
Tim Keller was a really nice guy, but that wasn't enough for …
May 22, 2023 · A group called The New Calvinists asserts: “Despite Keller’s massive reputation and popularity among evangelical Christians, we maintain that he does not proclaim the historic gospel of truth once delivered to the saints, but a gospel of his own making.”. Yet that rejection did not make Keller any more accepted by progressive Christians because he remained firm and explicit — although ...