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ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Christians Are Funding Sam Smith's Debauchery
"You've heard about the Sam Smith music video. Have you? You got me on that when I'm not a big Sam Smith who is Sam Smith, is he popular guys? Our guys are saying yeah he is. Sort of. All right, yeah, what Bobby tell us what's going on? He's got this new perverted music video. That's popped up, but the one thing nobody is saying are modern evangelical churches are now funding this guy's debauchery through the worship together and Universal Music group capital records because for every song that church sings from Capitol Records worship together, it funds Sam Smith's debauchery because Sam Smith is an artist signed to Capitol Records and has capital records that runs worship together, which is where most charges have ditched their handles and organs in favor of playing the latest hits off the radio. Now this is interesting, Bobby, hold on, hold on, Bobby. This is fascinating. I know where you're going with this now, and you're absolutely right. A lot of people don't realize that the Christian music companies years ago, all these religious music companies, they sold out to Hollywood, and we're talking about far left music organizations now pretty much control all of the Christian music industry. They may still have the same name and the record label, but they're actually being run by these leftist with an agenda, and that's why a lot of these contemporary Christian otters, their artists to either come out of the closet or renounce their faith, it's all a big racket. It's all big money.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Herschel Walker Attends Prayer Event at Atlanta Evangelical Church
"There was a big prayer gathering of evangelical Christians at the first baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia. Her rehearsal walker was there. And the new pastor of first baptist Anna, doctor Anthony George, and let me tell you something about that church now. It had been going through some ups and downs. Pastor George takes the pulpit and all of a sudden he starts speaking truth to the culture. A lot of churches out there these days, they don't want to have anything to do with politics. They don't want to have anything to do with the culture or the school board stuff that they think that it's evil for Christians to get involved in the political and the political process. But what they're really doing is they're marginalizing a neutralizing Christians. They don't want you Christians out there. Well, pastor George is not like that. And ever since he started talking about these issues, more and more people are just literally flooding into the church house so they had this big event a couple of hundred people turn out and Herschel Walker got to share his side of the story and pastor George hopped on the program at the very last minute, and we had a great conversation. And he said, look, hershel laid it all out. The pastor says he believes Herschel Walker. And he says that he doesn't even believe there's a dilemma here. And it's interesting to start a watch. I've been watching the analysis coming out over the past 48 hours. And it looks like even the mainstream media is acknowledging in a very begrudging way that this is not a big issue. That things may not appear to be the way they are, but even if it is, it's not going to be an issue for voters in the state of Georgia. So
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Caller: A Conflict With Fellow Black Christians
"Good, man. Listen, I really have a real conflict with a lot of my fellow black Christians. Now, they say that they don't agree with them immoral policies of the Democratic Party. But they think that they're not held responsible for voting for them. It's a really confusing thing to me. I've had a girl tell me that she is pro she don't believe in the killing of the unborn, but she's pro choice. I guess she's kind of manipulating the things that we know that God gives all people choice. But the choice in terms of killing babies is a different kind of choice. That's the choice to murder babies. And every Christian should be against it. But they've adjusted that theology to fit this Democratic Party. It's an amazing thing to me. They've adjusted it to fit them. Listen, this is, this is a hard fight and this is one of those issues where I say blacks that don't wake up. You have to kick the dust off your sandals and move on. But there's no way that you can justify abortion. You can't justify abortion biblically. God says he knew you before you were even born. I would quote scripture to her, and I would just ask her if God says this, why do you think that? And don't argue with her, just let her think it through, perhaps when she walks a may away, maybe the Holy Spirit will get a hold of our heart and get a hold of her thinking. But this is, this is nonsense. And I do believe that black churches need to be called out for this. I believe, and I hate to say this, but this is true. I think that Black Lives Matter has had a bigger impact on the black community than the black evangelical church ever has. And it's a sad statement, but it's a true statement. I believe that the black church largely, the black evangelical church, has largely been feckless when it comes to helping out the black community and it's
The Charlie Kirk Show
If You're Being Persecuted, Are You Closer to the Truth?
"Will get slammed for having an event that would gear more towards the right politically. If this is the right, then we're messed up. I've said nothing political. No. I haven't. Right, exactly. But if we had the same event and we geared, moved it toward the left, we'd be cheered. And there would be nothing about being political. Yeah, that's right. And I want you to put those two things together, being bought off and the move to the left and the evangelical church. Since you went there, I think that's I think it's actually a great question for those of you that really study your bibles. If you're being persecuted, are you closer to the truth or further away from the truth? There you go. Okay. So you're right. If we had drag queen story hour tonight. Yeah. You know, we'd be celebrated by the Arizona repugnant and all these people, right? We had all the others so wonderful and they do a great job and they're so great and okay, wonderful. Yeah, so you're right. So it actually should give you a little encouragement that you talk about such matters that people get up in arms. But yeah, so look, at a more fundamental level that I think we need to explore is the labeling is so insane and so sloppy. If I gave this same speech with these principles, 30 years ago, you wouldn't have been able to identify my political leanings. You would talk about the brilliance of the founders and the historicity of the declaration of the constitution and all this. But now it just seems as if it's become politicized and whatever. I mean,
The Eric Metaxas Show
Tom Ascol: The Next President of the Southern Baptist Convention?
"I'm talking to my friend Tom aspel, ASC OL. Look it up. Tom, ask AS COL, he was the senior pastor of grace baptist church for 30 6 years. He's the president of founders ministry and the institute of public theology, candidate for president of the Southern Baptist convention. The vote is next week. So Tom askell, people need to get to Anaheim and need to vote. And I'm begging you folks. Take this seriously if you know somebody who can be there and he's thinking, oh, I don't know if I want to go. This is a big deal. This is the Southern Baptist convention. I mean, how many people are involved in Southern Baptist churches? How many people does this affect? Could you repeat that? How many people in the whole Southern Baptist convention, roughly how many are there? How many people are affected by the leadership? You're running to lead the Southern Baptist convention. Yeah, so there's 47,000 churches over 14 million members in those churches. What say it again? 40 7000 churches. 14 million members. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we should have said this up front. This is huge. 47 thousand churches. Right. 14 million members. Yeah, let me draw it out for you. It affects far more than southern badness because our 6 seminaries educate one third of all the evangelical seminary students in America. So if you're in an evangelical church, it is likely that over the next 30 years, you're going to be directly influenced by southern Baptists or Southern Baptist trained minister who got his training at a southern institution. We also have the largest missionary sending force in the world and what happens in the SBC affects far more than the SBC. It affects other evangelical groups and churches in North America. And more than that, it affects the work of the gospel around the world, because we export what we have here. And if we're not healthy here, it's not going to be healthy wherever we export our Christianity. And that's how you
Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
"That people are fighting about? So race is a big one. And the summer of 2020 with all the conversations about racial justice that that opened up in the country more broadly really trickled down to evangelical churches as well. There were a lot of white pastors who really wanted to have conversations that summer who wanted to use the protests as a reason to talk with their congregations, push their congregations, have panel discussions, have more black voices at their church. Have these conversations and a lot of congregations were really not ready for that and not interested in it. The pandemic has really complicated all this as well. So initially, just the fact of not being able to meet either for a short or a long time, that separates people, people are only encountering each other on social media. They're not gathering. They're not sort of coming together and seeing each other face to face. So things got, you know, that led to a lot of ugliness. And then, of course, the politicization of issues like vaccines, church closures themselves, masking, all of that became so fraught and for pastors trying to hold a congregation together, I heard from so many people over the last few years that just felt whatever they did in that arena was going to make half of the church upset or at least a significant portion. And as Kevin told me, he learned in seminary, it only takes 7 people in a church to get you fired. So with this much sort of discontent roiling over racial issues, cultural issues, and then the pandemic laid on top of that, it's really an uncomfortable time to be an evangelical pastor. The 7 people who could fire you were being whom the elders of the congregation? No, really, so because leadership structures are different. So not elders, but just 7 really unhappy, noisy people, you know, who are talking about you with their friends and kind of ginning up discontent. I guess in a kind of loose way, that's the number of people that can sort of start the discontent that would lead to your ouster. You know, pastor Kevin Thompson and Fort Smith Arkansas was troubled by people thinking that Tom Hanks was somehow involved in child trafficking, which raises the question of the reliability of the information that people are counting on. And you're right that pastor Thompson wrote in his blog that Christians should apply research and discernment and that promoting things that are not true about others, violates the 9 commandment. That's the one against about bearing fault witness, right? What was he getting at? He was really disturbed by what he came to see as a crisis of authority within the evangelical church more broadly. So you have people watching other pastors, other kind of media figures online, getting their own views affirmed, encountering conspiracy theories that way. It just becomes, it's much easier to just find a spiritual voice who matches your political worldview online than to sit around while you're pastor makes you feel uncomfortable in your seat at church. So a line that I hear from a lot of pastors is I get them for one hour a week and fox or OAN or anyone else gets them for, you know, it could be 20 hours a week. So it's just really hard to compete with the voices that conservative American evangelicals are encountering online and on cable news. So there are tensions there are disagreements. And what does it mean for the membership of congregations like community Bible church, which is the one that Kevin Thompson in Arkansas headed? It's been really difficult. So the people that I spoke with at community Bible were really frustrated and saddened by what they saw as sort of the collapse of the church that they had known, where they felt very comfortably apolitical there. Supposedly sort of anyone could come. Anyone could be comfortable and we didn't have to hear about quote unquote politics. In church. As Kevin points out, he would occasionally speak about abortion from the pulpit and no one thought of that as politics. No one saw that as political. But then when he would talk about racial justice and issues related to that, suddenly that was political. So there is this kind of interesting in group shifting definition of what it means to be political in church. But for church members, they felt 5 years ago we were comfortable here. All of a sudden now our pastor is telling us that we're implicated in systemic racism. And we're not comfortable with that. So was he losing members? Yes, absolutely. And this is not just at community Bible. So across the country still, even as almost every church is meeting in person again now, but attendance is still really dramatically down. So it remains to be seen what that will look like in another few months or in a year. But there is a real sort of attendance crisis in the American church right now overall. So that's churches everywhere, not just evangelical churches, not just for absolutely. So Kevin Thompson had spent most of his career, I think, at community Bible. Did he stay? He did not stay, so last fall, he left Fort Smith where I should say he grew up. So he was born and raised in Fort Smith. He left for seminary, came back, expected he would live there for the rest of his life. But it just became untenable. He and his wife talked about, you know, the way they talked about it was we can stay here and have all these sort of happy memories sour and have things potentially really go south here, or we can leave, you know, sort of cut our losses and keep those happy memories. So they left, he's an associate pastor out at a bigger church out in Sacramento, California. And I think that was a really a bittersweet. The right decision as he talks about it, but also really bittersweet, leaving family and friends, and just an expectation that he'd been better would be embedded in that community for the rest of his life. Let's look at the other side of this. Our congregations whose leaders openly and avidly embrace Donald Trump's politics are those congregations growing. Yes, there are a lot of individual churches like this where pastors are really speaking openly about political issues that are booming. One way you can see that is churches that responded really defiantly to pandemic. Early pandemic precautions and lockdown orders and churches that defied that and opened early in some cases courting lawsuits and other cases suing themselves. Those churches are really thriving. People really responded to that. And people wanted to meet in person. I mean, I think that was true of almost any regular churchgoer. But there was sort of the defiance there, specifically that people that people really did respond to. This is a big question, but I'm wondering, I mean, certainly people besides evangelicals are attracted to Donald Trump and to his political views, but it does seem from these stories that white evangelicals are embracing them in a really passionate way. Do you think that there's something about the experience of being an evangelical that makes one more predisposed to.
Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
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Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
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Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
"You know, one of the things that struck me as I considered this is that people are very committed to their political beliefs, including people who follow Donald Trump, but if, you know, it becomes not just a matter of what's right for the country or what's the best political course, but a religious principle. I mean, it struck me that that might reduce the chances for compromise. I mean, you don't go halfway on the will of God, right? Well, right. I mean, religion and politics, each of them sort of raises the stakes for the other. So if you can infuse some religion into your politics, all of a sudden you're talking about not just the next election. But eternal eternal life, eternal consequences. The stakes could not be higher in some ways once you can put religion into that political sphere. And at the same time, infusing politics into your faith gives it a kind of urgency and immediacy. So we're not only talking about high flown ideas about the soul and but what we are talking about, what happens next for my family for my state for my country, there's kind of an urgency and immediacy and intimacy, so it's a symbiotic relationship that I think fuels each side and gives both a lot of energy. There's a rise in Christian prophets who are these people. What are they prophesizing? Yeah, so prophecy is that's a piece of the charismatic movement. Which has this focus on miracles and faith healing and the Holy Spirit being active in the world today. And a piece of that is a belief that individuals who are alive today, so not Old Testament figures, but can actually be gifted with a gift of prophecy and be able to make predictions. Some quite specific. So I was having lunch with some people in Georgia a few years ago now, and they were making casual conversation over lunch about, oh, did you hear what's so and so profit said, who was going to win the Super Bowl? And sort of just chatting about this as if it was a news event or a piece of news analysis. So the prophecies can get really specific. But leading up to both the 2016 and the 2020 election, there were a lot of political prophecies and including overwhelmingly that Trump was going to win. This caused sort of a crisis in the movement after 2020, where some profits sort of repented and said I got it wrong. Others doubled down and said, well, no, you know, because of these election conspiracies, you know, election fraud that Trump actually did win. My prediction was right..
Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
"We're speaking with Ruth Graham, a national correspondent for The New York Times, covering religion, faith, and values. She's written recently that many of the political issues dividing the Republican Party are causing deep rifts among white evangelical churches across the country. Many pastors are feeling pressure from parishioners to embrace Donald Trump's unsupported claims about election fraud or even QAnon based conspiracy theories about child predators. Those who don't are losing followers met in some cases, leaving the ministry. In some of these articles that you write about this, you talk about people that are politically conservative. You also use the term theologically conservative. What exactly does that mean? So again, it depends a little bit on the tradition, but I would describe some of the core things there as a really foundational belief in the historical validity of the Bible in the claims about Jesus divinity, a literal resurrection, and you're not just looking at the Bible as a sort of guide book for becoming a nicer person, and you pick and choose what feels right with contemporary sensibilities kind of trumping this what they would describe as a plane reading of the Bible. So it's not necessarily biblical literalism, but it's taking the claims of the Bible very seriously. There's a famous kind of definition of what it means to be an evangelical, it's called the bebbington quadrilateral named after this theologian David bevington. And the four pieces of it are centrality and truth of the Bible, the significance of the story of the crucifixion and the resurrection, the concept of being born again, and then an obligation to activism or service, repelled by that. So we can get into how evangelicalism that still works as an actual description of American evangelicalism, that that's a pretty good definition of theological conservatism. This is a big question, but I'm wondering, I mean, certainly people besides evangelicals are attracted to Donald Trump and to his political views, but it does seem from these stories that white evangelicals are embracing them in a really passionate way..
Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
"As these divisions ripple through these evangelical congregations, what are some of the other issues that people are fighting about? So race is a big one. And the summer of 2020 with all the conversations about racial justice that that opened up in the country more broadly really trickled down to evangelical churches as well. There were a lot of white pastors who really wanted to have conversations that summer who wanted to use the protests as a reason to talk with their congregations, push their congregations, have panel discussions, have more black voices at their church. Have these conversations and a lot of congregations were really not ready for that and not interested in it. The pandemic has really complicated all this as well. So initially, just the fact of not being able to meet either for a short or a long time, that separates people, people are only encountering each other on social media. They're not gathering. They're not sort of coming together and seeing each other face to face. So things got, you know, that led to a lot of ugliness. And then, of course, the politicization of issues like vaccines, church closures themselves, masking, all of that became so fraught. And for pastors trying to hold a congregation together, I heard from so many people over the last few years that just felt whatever they did in that arena was going to make half of the church upset, or at least a significant portion. And as Kevin told me, he learned in seminary, it only takes 7 people in a church to get you fired. So with this much sort of discontent roiling over racial issues, cultural issues, and then the pandemic laid on top of that, it's really an uncomfortable time to be an evangelical pastor. The 7 people who could fire you being who the elders of the congregation? No, really, so because leadership structures are different. So not elders, but just 7 really unhappy, noisy people, you know, who are talking about you with their friends and kind of ginning up discontent. I guess in a kind of loose way, that's the number of people that can sort of start the discontent that would lead to your ouster. You know, pastor Kevin Thompson didn't Fort Smith Arkansas was troubled by people thinking that Tom Hanks was somehow involved in child trafficking, which raises the question of the reliability of the information that people are counting on. And you're right that pastor Thompson wrote in his blog that Christians should apply research and discernment and that promoting things that are not true about others, violates the 9th commandment. That's the one against about bearing faults witness, right? What was he getting at? He was really disturbed by what he came to see as a crisis of authority within the evangelical church more broadly. So you have people watching other pastors, other kind of media figures online, getting their own views affirmed, encountering conspiracy theories that way. It just becomes, it's much easier to just find a spiritual voice who matches your political worldview online than to sit around while your pastor makes you feel uncomfortable in your seat at church..
Fresh Air
"evangelical church" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Our guest New York Times correspondent Ruth Graham says the episode is far from an isolated case. She writes that the issues dividing the Republican Party today are creating tensions within white evangelical churches across the country. Pastors who won't embrace Donald Trump's views are facing criticism, losing parishioners, and in some cases leaving the ministry. Ruth Graham is a Dallas based national correspondent covering religion, faith and values for The New York Times. She graduated from Wheaton college and previously worked as a writer and reporter at slate. Ruth Graham welcome to fresh air. Thank you so much. You write about a pastor in Fort Smith Arkansas, Kevin Thompson, who delivered a sermon in the fall of 2020, which would have been right in the middle of the Trump Biden presidential race. What did he say in this sermon? This is a pretty standard sermon that you'd hear in an evangelical church. It was about the gentleness of God. But he made one reference in the sermon that stood out to a couple of people in his congregation. So he was drawing this contrast between God as a loving and accessible figure. And just sort of comparing them to earthly celebrities as remote and inaccessible characters. And he just made a quick reference to, I think, Oprah, Jay-Z, and then Tom Hanks. Just to sort of draw this contrast in an understandable way. And several congregants afterwards asked him by text message and phone call. What did he mean by that reference to Tom Hanks? And one of them raised the possibility, sort of suggested that he obviously didn't care about the issue of sex trafficking. He was completely confused by this at first, but sort of pieced together that they were being influenced by QAnon, a piece of the QAnon conspiracy theory is that Tom Hanks is part of this ring of Hollywood pedophiles. So it was kind of a wake-up call for him, one of a couple of wake-up calls that his congregation was really being influenced and listening to voices that he was having a hard time figuring out how to reach and how to respond to. Kevin Thompson had been at his church, the community Bible church for a long time. And this little episode is reflective of a rift..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Michael Youssef: Why People Are Turning Away From the Church
"All the years that I've followed you and listened to you and respected you. You have this sense of optimism. You have this sense of profound consistency that we should never ever turn away from him. We have to remember with all of these challenges we face as a nation that sometimes the answer is right under our nose, but we have a hard time remembering it. I mean, more and more people are turning away from church these days, doctor yousef. Yes, but the problem is started in the puppets. You see, I've said for years, and I've been administered now for 50 years. That as goes the poop, it's so goes the pew, and as goes the pew, so it goes the culture. And instead of, oh, before I point my fingers, which I can, to many other factors, I can point it to us, those of us who are in the pulpit who have compromised the word of God who softened the message, who have not really, truly preached the message of Salvation, eternal life, and having peace and joy here and now alternative with Christ. That's what the cross and the resurrection, which you are celebrating are all about. But we lost that. We began to pander to people and become some judges literally evangelical churches have become walk and they've turned their back on the gospel and embracing socialism and the social gospel prosperity. All that's gospels of false gospels. And so my book never give up is I'm calling past us back to the truth because once the past is repent and turned back to the truth, they're going to see transformation and the culture by the very fact that they are now preaching God's word instead of what people want to hear.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Lucas Miles Describes How 'The Christian Left' Has Invaded the Church
"Friends. I'm sitting here now with my friend Lucas miles. He's written a book called the Christian left, how liberal thought has hijacked the church. This is a very, very important subject. Lucas miles, thank you for being with me. Hey, thanks for having me. Let's talk about this because there's so many people that are that attend churches that are kind of drifting along with this. They've accepted some of this rather than understanding that this is very bad on every level. So when you talk about the church being invaded in your book, the Christian left talk to us about the details. Yeah, I mean, what we're really seeing is this rising, growing constituency of left leaning, Christians, progressive Christians, and sometimes Christians in name only who have embraced Marxism, socialism, critical race theory. When you say Christians in name only, do you specifically mean the Episcopal Church? You know, I think there could be there's probably some of these individuals may be in a lot of churches. But we have to be clear that the mainline Protestant churches, okay? They're all hanging out rainbow flags. They're all hanging out at BLM. I wrote them off when the National Council council of churches was formed. They are just utterly useless. But what you're talking about and what concerns us more is the so called evangelical church. We expect this when we drive through a big city and we see the old churches downtown that are these mainline denominations and just see those a lot of times they're higher liturgical. We expect to see the rainbow flag flying above the cross. That doesn't necessarily shock anybody today. It should, but it doesn't, right? But what we're now seeing is in our community churches are evangelical megachurches. These places that are teaching CRT that are pushing socialism Marxism Marxist ideas from the pulpit and many of these people are drifting a really away from, I believe, Orthodox Christian
The Eric Metaxas Show
"evangelical church" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Seven demons he said you cast a demon out and you don't replace the holy spirit you just get seven more demons and so we see this for example with reimagining law and order in the police. Well if we just defunding decriminalize then what will happen. Well how will come up and take over the earth. That's what's going to happen. You don't get something better and so what happens in critical theory. You're criticizing something imperfect but you're going to replace it with something that is probably far worse for human life and flourishing. You call that justice you call yourself a victim and the result is everyone loses. And we're seeing this in in major urban centers across america. What you said are true if you go to the university you're peering into the future right now on the college campuses. They're educating the lawyers The media pundits there. They're educating the people that it'll be running business politics for the next generation and so what started out as a politically correct speech and safe zones and gender studies and women studies and fat studies and and human sexuality knotty classes. that's gone from the university. now it's gone mainstream and right now if you go to the university you're getting to look into the future. What are we going to have in the next ten years. And it's horrifying well. We know that it's madness. I guess my question is you know somebody famous said that. Something's somebody is so stupid. It takes an intellectual to believe them. You know so. It's not surprising that in the kind of greenhouse of of the university this madness can take over but the idea that it's come into the mainstream of society and worse than that the church. How do you think it's possible that people in the evangelical church could not understand that. This is what you're saying. It is and what i've been saying it is well. I believe everything that god creates satan counterfeit so i believe that critical theory. And that's what we're writing about is the opposite or the counterfeit of christian theology. And so what happens is within critical theory. We're basically good and we're getting better. The bible says were bad and getting worse the bible says that there are unchangeable fixed laws. That come from god. Critical theory says that there is no such thing as law and it's contingent and dependent upon each individual and culture and in christian theology. You own your own failures. Your personal sins in your shortcoming in critical theory. It's not personal. It's systemic the victim of various systems that have oppressed you so rather than repenting of your sin and changing your life. You attack other people and turn yourself into the victim and all of a sudden. You're jesus and you're the good one and they're judas. they're the bad one. And so in the name of justice your job is to attack dismantle everything they say and we see this with canceled culture. We see this with throttling and we see that in the end. Cancel culture is the counterfeit of the crucifixion. We believe that jesus got crucified. Now we ended up crucifying people in their careers and their reputations and christianity. You're supposed to be born again. The counterfeit in critical theory is your welk. and so. that's the counterfeit of being born again. I mean everything is just a counterfeit. What i'm saying is critical. Theory is a cult. It is a new. Demonic religion ideology that has taken over every spirit of academia and culture. And those who would claim to be christian and seek to reconcile these two things are responsible for a massive generational apostasy in the name of tolerance diversity open-mindedness inequality and it's just all misery and it's all just simply untrue. What's the website where folks can get a free copy of this book real faith dot com and it's christian theology versus critical theory. It's just free we'll give you real..
Axios Today
"evangelical church" Discussed on Axios Today
"Of climate change. So the thinking goes it would help protect companies from liability but it would also help protect workers. This goes so far beyond just dealing with some heat at work you know on a hot day. This is affecting a lot of different communities who is hurting. Yes this really has a disproportionate impact especially within urban areas on communities of color and poorer residents you know neighborhoods that historically were discriminated against in real estate policies those areas have fewer trees than wealthier neighborhoods and there could be a ten to fifteen degrees fahrenheit difference in the middle of a heatwave between the temperature in the peak of the urban heat island and some of the shadier areas and in has significant effects on people. You know you see also in the wake of storms when their major power outages and there's hot weather we we just saw this in new orleans. Where something like ten or eleven people died after the storm because of heat exposure. These are people who couldn't afford to get out ahead of the storm. Heat is kind of this insidious killer. It's the number. One weather related causes fatalities in the united states each year on average. So this is really. I think designed to be an environmental justice matter not just a climate change.
Axios Today
"evangelical church" Discussed on Axios Today
"About a quarter of americans described themselves as evangelical protestants according to the pew research center but lately a movement of so-called xfinity uncles is moving away from the evangelical church in the us. That's according to axios steph. Kite she's here with more now. Hey staff hey erica so steph. How big is this exodus from the evangelical church you. It's really hard to measure. What we do know is that there are some social media accounts that have tens of thousands of followers and these social media accounts are directed at expand yokels or deconstructed evangelical. 's what do you mean by this term. Deconstructed deconstruction is kind of a buzzword. That's been used within these circles and it honestly has a range of meanings for some people. It means that they've just stepped back from a certain kind of christian church or culture or politics While for others. It means that they've left. Organized religion altogether so what is accounting for this rise of exchange locals there couple of different things that happened over the past few years that have led to people leaving church and also being more outspoken about it. Donald trump's presidency was one really big issue that a lot of people. I spoke to brought up that because we saw so many white evangelical attach themselves donald trump for some people who didn't agree with his policies and didn't agree with his rhetoric. It became a flash point in a reason for them to move away and started highlighting issues. That maybe they've always had with the church but seeing people react to his presidency made them step away at the end. And how does social media factoring here. It's not new people to change what they believe or change. What kind of church they want to go to. But what's different this time. Around is that social media has actually allowed people to form communities to kind of support each other even hashtags like exxon jellicoe or deconstruction or church to head allowed people to share their stories and also find other people who had similar reasons for leaving who had also had stories of abuse within the church or who felt like they didn't belong in the church because their sexual identity or other issues. So it's created more of a movement where before it might have been just a one off person leaving and nothing really said about it so just give me your big takeaway here. Why does this matter. Imagine matters because evangelism is still very popular in the us. and it's also a group that's targeted politically. i think. Sometimes it's easy to look at evangelicals and only think of the republican party but there are nuances and we're starting to see That communities start to break apart in different ways. It'll be interesting to wash moving forward.
The Eric Metaxas Show
From Gay to Gospel: The Fascinating Story of Becket Cook
"Folks talking to beckett cook beckett cook you just shared something reprised the last couple of sentences. You were Living as a gay man in hollywood for a long time and then one day one day. I walked twelve years ago i walked into. I was invited to an evangelical church in hollywood and against my better judgement. I kind of just went. And and i when i heard the gospel preached and after the after the sermon during the worship time i had this radical kind of road to damascus encounter with god completely changed my entire life did at one eighty and i. I knew immediately that day. That homosexuality was no longer my identity that it was no longer a part of my future. Dating guys wasn't a part of my future. But i didn't care because i just met jesus and i'm like i'm going with that guy like forget those guys. Jesus is way better. And he's always faithful and they'll never leave prefer sick me so since that day. I've let's say my same sex attraction before that day was at one hundred percent after that god had so much grace on me that it barely it doesn't dominate. my thought. Life had barely barely think about it every once in a while. They'll be a moment of same sex attraction. But i'm not quote unquote cured of that. But i'm happy. I'm more than happy to to deny myself to deny my desires sinful desires take cross and follow christ no matter what and and i prayed. I've prayed over the years. And i've had elders at my church. Pray over me. Four sexual healing for healing for the sexual broken. I've experienced in my life. Because as a kid when i was nine years old. I was molested by friend's father. So i prayed for healing but as as paul did when paul prayed for the thornton is flesh to be removed. Got said no. My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness. And so for now for now. God's greatest sufficient for me i mean it always will be but i don't. The goal isn't heterosexuality. The goal is holding
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"Then yana baptist. We love this. This idea of community. How do you think that operates at the community level. I stumble over that word almost every time. Yeah that's a good question but we want our communities to be saved to right. Because just this john sign guard is talking about communities attacking the interrogation of faith and at the same time his community would probably attack those who attack his community. Right who attack his interrogation so everyone's just attack and everybody and well. Yeah nobody's allowed to interrogate my interrogation. But i'm allowed to tara gate. Their lack of interrogation. That's a lot of wordplay there. But you know what i mean. It's this continual problem that we find ourselves. I it's just really is the modern project of saying. Hey there's one way of knowing and that's that way of knowing so let's talk about community community is not supposed to be a safe place right supposed community supposed to be the place in which you can do some of these unsafe things because of who got is in that community interesting. What do you mean by that but like unsafe as dangerous as well. There's a danger to not be being homogeneous. So then you stick out in the community yeah community supposed to provide the place where you do some of these things that seem so interest to us like working through. Do i know everything about god. Do i have questions about god right so community safe and a play in the sense. That community is the place where you can ask that question. But the way we think about safety and community is that we believe the same. That's why it's safe. I kind of like what you're saying. And the imagery that comes to my mind is the idea of water in that you when you have stream. It's always moving forward and streams that say stagnant become gross and unusable as a source of water so community water need right its members to keep pushing forwards and outwards and in a direction outwards to new ideas and grappling in their faith in new ways..
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"Because i knew you're a gracious and loving god. Forgive these people. And i didn't want you to forgive them interesting. And so then. He sits on a tree that god puts them up and he's waiting for judgment to happen and judgment doesn't happen in the tree dies and withers and there's this long conversation with god about. Why did you let this happen. And basically saying hey you misunderstood who i am and we never find out whether jona kind of goes through that process deconstruction and takes it in an and moves towards your relationship or new understanding of god or whether he just stays desert there under weather tree. I mean we're just left with that. God has the last word but we never find out what jonas last word is And it's it's a story. I think that's being told in the bible to the people of israel because they're being asked to reconsider who they think goddess and they want to be the one that punishes all the other nations. But god wants to be the god that is drawn that shows off israel so that all the other nations are drawn to him. So it's it's a book about deconstructing your faith in my opinion for forty israelites and for us and not only that. But as you're saying this story. I i i thought about the. Oh what said he does he go to none of niniveh. The innovates would have been also heard this information and then they would have gone through their own deconstruction their own reconstruction of faith. Right what it means right right and they don't even get the core message right. They don't get the core message of saying. Hey i come from the god of the israelites. Judgement is coming. You should repent believing this god and do and maybe judgment will pass literally what what what jones says is hate. Judgement is coming walks. Run out of the city to the other saying that basically and then walks away and still just that simple message. Changes changes that city..
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"But could you still follow me on twitter. Could you still popularize my ideas. I'm gonna make a big statement and put it on instagram. And hopefully christianity. Today will report on it and i think that's that could be treated circum certain audience but then there's also i think a demographic of people where they they deconstruct faith just isn't for them. They don't see it and they go through that cognitive dissonance process and yet they sell arrive at the same conclusion. Oh for sure for sure. So you're saying it's more more about the the process than it is about the end conclusion as to what you believe. Yeah let me think about that. Yeah i think actually. The process is lacking for a lot of not everyone. Let me say this. Because i know there's people who are taking this seriously but i think that the critical step of self interrogation of saying am. I actually different person than i was before i think for the celebrities and granted. The celebrities is the ones that we see most right so john stein guard. Who makes this thread on twitter. And he has a verified. Little blue thing he behind him so he's a celebrity of some sort of. There's people verified these days. That i have no idea how they ever got verified but he he must be popular enough to have the verify thing beside name and i have never fallen before. It's the first time i hear of him. But these are things that you hear right but even in my own life. Some of my friends are some people who who who i would have grown up with. You know they've changed the content of what they believe in And what they're passionate about but they're still engaging that content even though it's different other still engaging content with the world in the same way they used to when they had more conservative or less progressive or whatever words you want to use to describe that content so there hasn't been enough self interrogation there to see i'm a different person. Now you're you're still the same person you're you haven't really deconstructed anything as much as you've just changed beliefs that's all. So you're you're talking about There's new beliefs but the systems of logic that bring you to those beliefs. Stay the same. Yeah i mean you're still the center of it. All is still the i in terms of me. What do i want and what do i think. How do i feel right. It is the center of the event. Jellicoe church whether we want to say that. We want to agree with that or not. But that's the whole the whole seeker friendly movement. It's all about how can we. How can we deliver something that people want desire so that they'll come and join us now. It's hard to move away from. That.
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"And that's a that's a muscle you need to work out and stretch exactly exactly and and so coming back to this image of cognitive dissonance. Then i think the muscle that we working out stretching to to to be able to hold these two concepts that may be contradictory to hold them and and to process them and to deconstruct them. I'm already getting tired of that word italia but but to to massage those without necessarily having come to a conclusion where both them fit together even at the end. Yeah yeah. And so. When i was reading this john stein guard approach and how deconstruction is kind of used in the event jealou- community the the sense. The impression i'm getting it is that the community attacks this cognitive dissonance they attack the construction because it involves a process of of putting these two contradictory thoughts. Together it's less about preserving faith that they actually have and and and more about keeping the beliefs. They are building upon the police. They currently do if that makes sense. Yeah i agree with you in the sense that that is. I mean that is the rhetoric against the construction movement from local leaders as well. If you believe that then you have left. Faith what what i think to me. What's happening is that what we see. As deconstruction movement oftentimes is like a quick fix to the problem of dissonance. That people experience it. It's so even as i'm going through that threat that is trying to kind of trying to defend to deconstruction movement. It kind of says. Hey listen our baby boomer parents. They were not happy with what was happening in the church. He created the evangelical church and they faced feedback. And now we are just doing the same thing. It literally using the words. Church just wasn't working out for us anymore but in the process of saying that you're actually saying i'm not doing anything new. I'm just carrying the thought. Forward that my baby boomer parents or grandparents had already when they created the evangelical church just to its next logical conclusion so you may have different beliefs and those range on whole vast remains of things. Be it on. Lgbtq plus issues bid on marriage cohabitation sexuality. I dunno the loss of issues right but even calling yourself progressive. Christianity already is telling you that you're still working with the same model that that the conservative so the non progressive christians are working with right. And so you're not actually in constructing anything you're just taking some of the thought process and some of that consumerism. And some of that..
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"A dangerous place to be. And i don't think deconstructing is unhealthy to deconstruct. You have to then find that place of learning it's taking your faith apart and leaving it in shambles and more book learning. So yeah so when you talk about that that piece of self reflecting that takes a lot of energy and it can be quite scary. And i would say that's pro part of that might be because it takes energy to self reflect. It's not a passive process. Sure i know. I said sometimes i i sometimes we're doing it subconsciously. But even that still takes energy. Yeah it's it's like a muscle that you have to kind of workout right and you have to get better at it and work it out. We did this. Alter our practices as leaders. We have to constantly self reflect We have to do meta cognition and my meta cognition. Cognition of medicaid cognition Hipster view all. I know i even have the man bun to prove it but anyways yeah cognitive dissonance to takes i mentioned this earlier where you hold two contradictory beliefs and in the process of self reflection. That's what you're doing right. Yeah you're taking one belief that you're upholding and you're right. You compare it to another belief of the opposite that you're not withholding and you're trying to either mesh the two together or choose one or the other and often the easier approach is just to not think about the change and to stay entrenched in your previous belief. Right my follow up to that would be that. I think sometimes the easier way today in today's day and age is to disregard the previous belief and move towards the new belief without questioning. Why you're moving towards the new belief. Whatever that new belief is. I feel like we're very easily swayed these days so we're not actually ever in. This is just my theory. We're not actually ever capable or most people are not actually very capable of holding two distant beliefs together for.
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"I think i think the exit and jellicoe movement would like to see themselves in that way. Even as i'm reading this thread that i send you but my retort to that is you're not profoundly thinking differently than the places you're leaving. You're just applying thinking that you learned. They're in a different way to different content. But you're still actually exercising the same thought process and you're still part of the same culture and you're still shaped by all the same ideas and so you're not profoundly different. It's just what you believe is different but as people and as a world view it's not profoundly different than than the jellicoe movement. That's my contention. That's where i always get get really frustrated with this whole movement but we can get into that in a bit but the my first question for you was don't we all do deconstruction in our lives all the time. Yeah when i first heard of deconstruction. I was listening to podcasts. about two. They weren't there. They weren't christian influencers at all. They're just to youtubers dot halfway through their career. They just deconstruct it their faith right and they were just talking about that. So that's when i first heard about deconstruction so my initial reaction to deconstruction that this is about people leaving faith right but as i've grown through understanding this process i realized that it's actually closer to self reflection and understanding Oneself so then you're you're right We redo deconstruction in our everyday life. When we take in new information when we encountered new people or new ways we have to deconstruct. Maybe it's not always overt. We're not always cognitively doing it. Yeah but we're always in this process of of negotiation of of changing our beliefs center stances and that means either changing them making new ones or a solidifying previous ones. We've had yeah. And i think that's the you know when you say that i in my mind and i'm not. I'm not a psychologist. But i in my mind. I called for my own life..
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"evangelical church" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"Greetings everyone and welcome to the modern and about this podcast. I was going to open. Oh it's going pretty good. I've had a relaxing week with no school. Meaning i've obviously forgotten quite a bit about some of my obligations that i needed to do because it involved me setting in looking at tv for multiple days straight and just recuperating health recuperating your mental health deteriorating your other health my physical health yeah oh for sure Yeah how about you. What have you been up to for the past We bet well not much. I mean. I think we're all hoping for better better weather. A pair went accident. Meeting comes on strong on that one better weather in manitoba so we can hang out outside more. I think the kids are ready to to be outside more. So we're just waiting and now we're going back into a lockdown here in manitoba so yeah it's gonna be a long for weeks. Oh for sure because we're going back down to know gatherings whatsoever and then also Only ten people in church..
Latino USA
Unforgivable: Jailed former gang members come out as gay
"A new documentary takes us inside a salvadoran prison and into the world of former gang members who are now a gay a few years ago. Something unusual and kind of incredible happened in prison in western el salvador. The prison was called some francisco. Go out there. And it was entirely dedicated to holding members of el salvador's notorious gangs. Ms thirteen and the eighteenth street gang over the past three decades. These gangs have been in an informal war that is turned el salvador into one of the most violent countries in the world and has forced thousands of salvadorans to leave their country in two thousand seventeen. Nearly all of the inmates inside the prison san francisco go data withdrew from their gangs and converted to christianity evangelical. Churches came to control every part of the prison every part except for one a small isolation block where inmates are locked in around the clock for a variety of reasons and in that isolation block nine men have chosen to live in a single tiny cell about a yard by two yard because they've made a decision. That's unforgivable both to the gangs they were once a part of and to the evangelical church. These men are gay and they've decided not to hide it
Rough Translation
The Loneliness Of The Climate Change Christian
"Years of age Richard. CIZEK always dreamed of being a diplomat brokering agreements and alliances abroad for the United States I have old passport did money for most of his life or Memento worked on Capitol Hill as what he calls a diplomat for God he represented the largest network of Evangelical Christians the National Association of Evangelical the Naet, and we should just add that while the naet represents a wide swath of Evangelical Christians when we use the term evangelical in this episode, we're GonNa mean white evangelicals whose politics dynamics are very different from the Black Evangelical Church spotted Senator Hillary. Clinton is describes his job as being a lobbyist for thirty million evangelicals. Thank you got floppy blonde hair blue eyes elastic sort of face. Growing up in the family farm his mom was a Kennedy Democrat and his dad was a Nixon Republican and so I was always the bridge builder the diplomat in college he protested against the Vietnam War but he also signed up for ROTC and when I marched on Saturdays, my anti-war friends through exodus. CIZEK enjoyed being the kind of person who could move between worlds listen to both sides. But he also felt confused about what he believed in, and so I came home from my third year college to work for college tuition and. I was invited by a friend to a Baptist Church. And I heard an alter call. It didn't know at the time even what an alter call was it actually what is integral where the preacher, the evangelist or the pastor says? Received Jesus Christ as your person saying if you don't. You're turning away. God. You're saying no. To the Creator. In one thousand, nine, hundred, ninety, two, when CISIC became an evangelical that did not mean subscribing to one political party voting Republican that would happen by the end of the decade. More than thirty million Evangelical Christians in America, we will come you governor Ronald Reagan. That's INCISA. Gets a job at the National Association of Evangelical 's It was clear that evangelicals were forced to be reckoned with you know opposing gay rights opposing abortion, but he wants to do more than the family values. Stuff imagines an even bigger role for Christians in politics I wrote a letter to the White House suggesting that the president newly elected. Ronald Reagan. That he ought to give a major speech on the morality of the Soviet Union and nuclear arms. And speechwriters at the White House they called me up and they said we like this come meet with US Ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States. This speech that Reagan gave to size in March of Nineteen ninety-three hue very become one of his most famous. Those of you win the National Association of Evangelical just going to talk about the issues that Christians are known to care about teenage sex pornography abortion and hard drugs. They talk about the Cold War Erica has kept alight the torture freedom to words made the speech. So famous when evil empire because the Soviets. Evil, empire the focus of evil in the modern. World Reagan. Took something that had not been Christian issue and made it. One Reagan was challenging the evangelicals not to sit on the sidelines or you pleased chorus I mean this was like a coup on my part. He was the guy who invited Reagan to speak my credit my street cred with this conservative group that I'd come to work for was established eventually sizing. Became Vice President for government affairs the and it's evangelical started getting more political power. This funny thing happened where non-christians would approach Cizek just to get his support on some piece of legislation and seismic was open will join with the youth the dreaded Aclu to pass the prison rape. Reform Act felt like speaking out on other issues that would actually give evangelical is more clout join with feminist pass. The trafficking victims. Protection Act. And then size, it gets an invitation did he s think hard about? The invitation is to Oxford England for a big conference on global warming. So your desk to get this invitation you automatically you're sure you WANNA take it. Is there any doubt? No no I I again have to calculate and I ask the chair of the board at the time and she says you shouldn't go. Because why? One. skepticism about mainstream science in you know there is this syllogism. Scientists believe. In climate change scientists believe in evolution. So. We don't believe
5 Minutes in Church History
James Montgomery Boice
"Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in Church history on this episode we will be in the twentieth century visiting with James Montgomery Boyce. Doctor Boyce was born on July seven, nine, thousand, nine, hundred, thirty, eight. He lived in a bedroom community of Pittsburgh. was quite a high school athlete. His Dad was a doctor and position voice for a fine education as a high school student voice was sent to the Stony Brook School and New York. He was mentored by Frank E. Gabe line, Biblical, scholar and theologian in his own right. Well after Stony Brook Voice went to Harvard for his undergraduate, and then he went to Princeton for his give. After that he was on his way to Basel for a PhD in theology while he was in Basel all there were a group of people who pressured him to start a Bible study, and he started a Bible study that became a church and to this day there is an evangelical church there in Basel that great, reformation city. And there's a church there founded by doctor. Boyce well. He graduated from Basel and Nineteen. Sixty six and two years later in nineteen, sixty eight, he was installed as the Minister of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church near Rittenhouse Square on Spruce Street and Philadelphia Historic Church its. Spire went way into the sky, and its organ and its pipes could be heard throughout the city on a Sunday morning. Well in the nineteen seventies and nineteen, seventy, four to be exact Boyce started the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. And in those early years people would gather there and intense church to hear John, Gersh ner and a young RC sprawl and J I packer and others, this constellation of reformed theologians in Nineteen, seventy, eight, a number of them joined together informed. The International Council for Biblical and A boy served as the chairman Dr. Scroll served as the President and see put out the Chicago statement on an errand see. They established themselves for a ten year run, and that was the life they had a voice also helped establish the Alliance for confessing evangelicals and nineteen ninety-four. That group stood strong against the evangelicals and Catholics together document, and took a stand for justification by faith alone well, in addition to those organizations. We have the books that doctor. Boyce wrote one of them. Foundations of the Christian faith is his systematic theology. It's billed as a comprehensive and readable theology. He also wrote renewing your mind in a mindless age, and another one of his books to cities to loves is subtitled Christian responsibility and a crumbling culture in addition to those books. He was known for his. Commentaries these of course grew out of his many sermons preached from Nineteen Sixty eight to the year two thousand from the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church. She did a five volume series on John that was published a four volume series on Romans, two volumes on the minor prophets, three volumes on genesis and three volumes on the psalms. They're also commentaries on acts flippy in Nehemiah, Joshua Equations and Philippians and a few more books well Dr Voice was married to Linda. They had three daughters, nineteen, eighty, eighty-two Linda and Dr, Boyce. The city. Centre Academy School there in Philadelphia. On the morning of Good Friday, April twenty, one, two thousand Doctor Boyce was diagnosed with cancer. He died eight weeks later on June fifteen, two thousand. During those eight weeks he had one more thing to write in. There were hymns. He wrote thirteen in all. One of them is entitled Hallelujah. The other come to the waters, an invitation for all who have no money, but are thirsty, and those who have no funds about are hungry to come to the waters to come to the fountain to drink freely of Christ.
Big Boy
Pastor’s ‘white blessing’ comments spark criticism of Christian rapper, Houston native Lecrae
"Christian rapper Lecrae is getting dragged he had a conversation with the CEO of a chick fillet and also in Atlanta the pastor Louie I've still got another name wrong Giglio that's different I you say his name but you know in in the conversation the pastor was saying how he wants to change white privilege to white blessings check it out with our nation's history we miss we understand the curse that was slavery white people do and we say that was bad but we missed the blessing of slavery that it actually build up the framework for the world that white people live and they live in and so other people call this white privilege and I think may be a great thing for me is to call it white plastic that I'm living in the blessing of the curse that happened generationally that allowed me to grow up in it yes I know I can almost hear what he was trying to say he's been a sound crazy is it on hand so crazy and everybody took it and what we're really sucks is I honestly I haven't seen the crate trending like ever ever in my life that I've or has it for all the great work that he puts in everything that he stands for and talks about that this is the moment that he turns out to be trending and he's getting drag left and right and I feel so bad this is like down like you guys and and I also get the anger though I also hear seven and one thousand percent but the great did come back and say you know I'm sorry he said I'm processing a lot I think my attempt to be diplomatic and gracious I missed the opportunity to take care of the very people I came to represent I knew I was uncomfortable but I was so excited to educate I still has some gaps in my education and he went on to say you know that he was been he's been battling racism within the event if I can even say those words evangelical church that he was in a very dark place so I think that you know it's it's a matter of sitting down and understanding but it also is a learning a learning lesson for everyone and I can also understand where he was at you know saying like at that time when he felt uncomfortable that he was trying to process everything that he was hearing you know but a lot of people I was wondering if a crazy evening Cardi you don't know San R. or knew what it was like man this sounds crazy because I felt like if he called he said a guy named easy you probably still got it got got into it or even another question of you know explain because that sounds confusing you know you know I was in love with me yeah and that to me you know after I heard it it had a chance to say Hey you know doesn't because there's times when I do interviews where I listen back to somebody bring something to my attention I say damn I miss that
AP News Radio
How long is the sermon? Study ranks Christian churches
"A new study ranks the length of church sermons how long should a sermon beat the answer very sharply depending on the church according to pew research center study of fifty thousand sermons according to pew Catholic sermons were the shortest averaging just fourteen minutes compared to twenty five minutes for sermons and mainline Protestant congregations and thirty nine minutes an evangelical churches historically black Protestant churches had by far the longest sermons at an average of fifty four minutes a possible explanation Pugh said is that the preacher's a black churches allow more time during their sermons for musical interludes dramatic pauses and responses from worshipers I Walter Ratliff
The Frame
Garcia, David Fields And Jack Freeman discussed on The Frame
"Representatives from the evangelical church la Luz del mondo are continuing to stand behind embattled leader not son liking Garcia state prosecutors have charge him with sex crimes against children indicates playing out in an LA court room when he was a rain Garcia's bail was set at fifty million dollars that amount was said to be the highest bail ever said in LA county Chrissy is legal team wanted it reduce but LA Superior Court judge David fields yesterday decided to hold him without bail cited new evidence against the man the Church followers considered to be an apostle of Jesus Christ at a news conference today la Luz del mondo spokesman Jack Freeman said Garcia's legal team will appeal that no bail decision we ever receive prejudice religious intolerance and discrimination from the office of the Attorney General of California pre trial detention should not be used as an early punishment judge fields ruled after law enforcement testified about child **** found under C. is electronic devices church leaders claim Garcia is innocent and the case against him is fabricated three women with the church are also facing criminal charges one has bail of twenty five million dollars prosecutors call her Garcia's groomer and recruiter of
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Thousands Of Central American Migrants Stuck In Tijuana, Waiting To Seek Asylum
"President Trump says there's a humanitarian and national security crisis on the US Mexico border. This idea of a border emergency can be traced back to the reports that began a few months ago of a caravan of Central American migrants, traveling up through Mexico to the US many of those migrants are are now stuck in Tijuana, Mexico, just south of the border from San Diego. And that's where NPR's John Burnett joins us from now. Hi, John airy, we've heard about thousands of migrants stuck in Tijuana. What are you seeing? There will you know, this is ground zero of what the president considers the migrant crisis. I mean, you've got central Americans who are waiting in all the major Mexican border cities batik wanna is where you really see them. We started out with somewhere between five thousand six thousand migrants who'd come up into caravan. The numbers are definitely down to perhaps two thousand three thousand. Migrants. Now that are still here some gone back to Honduras some have been deported by Mexican authorities. Some have crossed into the US to request asylum, and then others, you know, crossed the border illegally. They climbed the fence, and they were arrested and instill others went to other Mexican border cities where there's less of a weight to cross. So, you know, the the the numbers are trickling down. So the numbers are down. But still a lot of people for t- quantity to deal with. How is the city copen? You know, it's just it's chaotic what we've seen today. There's more than a dozen shelters here, the big one L Bader atoll, you know, it's it's the best organized by the federal government. And then you have all these others. We went to one that was run by the and Bassedas of Christ evangelical church where you had people a leading intense inside the church sanctuary. But outside was this squalid drainage ditch with hogs all rooting around and children around they're playing and yet people in Tijuana are trying to help the migrants. And so you have these these these shelters that have just sprung up in houses, and with different do or groups, and with churches, and really you just get this sense that they they still don't know what to do with this crush of people who are here. What about Americans you're right over the border from San Diego. Do you see many US people? They're trying to help out. You do there's lots of volunteers. They're over here. They're offering legal advice. They're bringing food. They're bringing medicine summer bringing you know, knitting needles and yarn for them, you know, give them something to do while they're waiting. I mean this morning they called number one thousand six hundred twenty seven that's how many migrant families have gotten into the US to ask for asylum in there. Still many many more waiting weeks. What are you hearing from the migrants themselves? You've spoken to. Well, these are these are single men these are families their grandmothers, and you know, they've been here waiting for so long some for six to eight weeks, and they seem to be, you know, just very frustrated. Some are still waiting in line for their numbers to be called and others are deciding to take jobs here in Tijuana. There's a a labor shortage, and so some are working as a as Masons others are going to work in these fabrication plants Mckee LA's, and then still others have decided to bring caught and Muto to jump the wall. And so they go to this area where they can crawl over one of the lower fences where they're promptly arrested by the US border patrol. But they know that that's a rash decision that they're going to be detained if they do that. And so many want to wait, but they're really getting frustrated here. Yeah. The times are so long just in our last thirty seconds. President Trump last month announced a policy called remain in Mexico where asylum seekers. Would have to wait in Mexico for an immigration hearing in the US any sign of that taking shape. You know that policy has been suspended. Ari? I spoke to a senior government official familiar with border security plans, and because of the complexities of the diplomacy between Mexico in the US. They are not returning immigrants seeking asylum to Mexico to await their immigration cases. The ones who are going to the border largely are being allowed to ask for asylum and then being either detained or or released. All right. A notice to appear and immigration court NPR's, John Burnett Antigua. Thanks much. You bet. All right.
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Cubans mourn plane crash dead, officials ID 20 bodies
"Put a train security officer in each public school only three known survivors of that deadly passenger jet crashing cuba that killed over one hundred people investigators now trying to determine what led to the wreckage here's abc's victor oquendo the staggering death toll climbing cuba one hundred and ten now dead and investigators are still trying to figure out why this plane plummeted from the sky the fireball and smoke could be seen for miles in havana cubans rushing to the crash site just moments after the seven thirty seven went down among the dead twenty priests from an evangelical church somehow three people were pulled from the fiery wreckage alive there now fighting for their lives what dozens of other families crowded into the airport terminal eager for updates on their loved ones what pope is dwindling as cuba state tv begins posting photos of victims on their facebook page it's the first day of husband and wife it's a with prince harry and meghan markle newlyweds now known as the duke and duchess of sussex abc's james longman with some of the highlights of what happened on saturday the american princess meghan markle the moment so many have been waiting for here in windsor the crowds out earning keen to catch a glimpse of george clooney oprah and elton john inside the chapel megan's mother doria ragland clearly emotional with the queen and her seat it was time for the bride to make her entrance and it was one for the ages confidence smile meghan taking that long walk down the aisle prince charles linking arms with his future daughterinlaw taking her to the altar and harry taken aback seeing her for the first time the bride and groom plus being hands the cameras catching that personal moment harry whispering you look amazing the prince lifting her male the service like nothing britain had seen before the vows you are back to take meghan biracial american divorcee the picture of modern princess wearing the queen's tiara and address inspired by history harry the soldier prince holding back tears diana's memory looming large in the bouquet her favorite flower forget me knots a reading by her sister the only one of the service but it was the american touches that lifted the day a gospel version of stand by me echoing through the historic chapel i'm bishop michael curry from chicago through the thunderous salmon on love we.