The 'born gay, always gay' myth is dead. This has been well known to social scientists for years, but for the Guardian to be taking note, and covering the results honestly is a significant moment. And it has enormous implications for the proposed 'conversion therapy' ban.
What causes sexual fluidity?
If sexuality changes, what causes it? No one really believes that things 'just happen'. We believe in cause and effect. If something has changed, we want to know why.
Read moreHis latest book, Signals of Transcendence (InterVarsity Press), is a slim and razor-sharp study of people's lives and how they understood the "signals of transcendence" that reshaped -- remade -- those lives.
Read moreAccording to the study, individuals who regularly attend church are more likely to have fathers present in their lives.
God doesn't work through corrupt, lukewarm, or dead churches -- He only works through living, vibrant, humble, broken, contrite, Spirit-filled churches who are repentant and humble. Business as usual is not going to cut it in these dire times. LISTEN NOW
Read moreIn our modern days, the same principles are deployed by those who seek to control our world. And Pride Month is surely the most ostentatious, annoying, and egregious of them all. June has been taken over by the avant-garde of the sexual revolution. It is the high feast of the progressive liturgical calendar and almost as long as Lent--though committed of course to self-indulgence, not self-denial.
Read moreIn this shorter clip, Bowling encounters several people who argue with him. It ends with his interaction with the man he prays with. The man says he is married to a woman. He also says that he is a Christian and doesn't believe homosexuality is a sin. Bowling explains that the Bible says homosexuality is sin and that sin separates us from God. He says he's cautioning him away from homosexuality out of love because he wants the man to be close to God because God is love and God is amazing.
Read more"Fidelity" derives from the Latin word "fides," meaning "faith" or "trust." The word implies "strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty," according to Merriam--Webster.
George freely acknowledged that "absolutely no one" gave him any authority to declare June "Fidelity Month." Nonetheless, he has done so, and I believe we as conservatives should join him in this effort.
Read moreAs the mom of a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old, I'm horrified. Most young kids will have no idea what these things mean, but that is the point. The messaging and images are grooming kids to accept unnatural, sexually exploitive things as "normal."
Read moreFindings from the survey also align with those of a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll released in March, confirming that 39% of Americans claim religion is "very important" to them. Interestingly, the WSJ poll found that 49% of participants -- 10% more than those who find religion important -- believed that they "know God really exists" and "have no doubts about it."
Read more• The research, based on responses to the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Survey conducted in the spring of 2022, was released on April 20.
Read moreThe facts are depressingly simple. Audrey Hale started her journey as a young woman who became first a lesbian, and then a began to experiment with being transgender by dressing as a man when her parents left the house.
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