Curry joined with leaders of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty that also includes the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in signing a friend of the court brief in support of the City of Philadelphia in Fulton v. Philadelphia, a case now before the United States Supreme Court.
Read moreAlthough it would seem counterintuitive, we have found that by drawing more closely to the ACNA, we have been able to offer a more harborous hospitality to our ecumenical partners. Thus, for example, in our worship, we are pleased to invite the Lutherans from the North American Lutheran Church to lead our chapel services one week each semester using Lutheran liturgy, giving us a chance to get to know their patterns and emphases.
Read moreIt is now very apparent that The Archbishop of Canterbury is a sniveling, groveling managerial fop, and the Church of England has become so incredibly embarrassing that GAFCON bishops will have nothing to do with it or him. I have blamed Welby, as I have done on occasion, for being a thin-skinned, theologically lightweight chancer who should never have been given the keys to Lambeth Palace.
Read moreThis will undoubtedly cause heartburn to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury who has apologized to the LGBTQ for alleged hatred towards them. The drive for full homosexual acceptance is now in full throttle in the Church of England.
Read moreThe story was broken by POLITICO with tweets from a number of people condemning Falwell's behavior.
"How is this Jerry Falwell Jr. photo even real?" tweeted Meghan McCain. "Also if you're running the largest Christian university in America maybe don't put photos of yourself on social media with your pants undone on a yacht - with random women in bad wigs. So gross, so hypocritical."
Read moreStott neither sought nor asked for ecclesiastical fame or power; the key to the success of his ministry was to humbly come under the Word of God, not plaster his ideas and views over the Word of God. He turned down a bishopric and the few honors that came his way were well earned and richly deserved. He never played them up. He was known to his friends simply as "Uncle John". One rarely saw him in a dog collar.
Read more"There is a huge risk that Donald Trump might be reelected if the normal means of voting including in person, by mail or email, as it could result in election fraud," said Curry, the Episcopal Church's first black Presiding Bishop. "We can't have 'beloved community' infected and destroyed by the Orange Man."
Read moreThe American Episcopal Church has defied God to his face on human sexuality, denying fundamentally the binary relationship of a man and a woman. In doing so, they have promoted a new religion.
Theologian Gerry McDermott put it concisely when he said, "Progressives who embrace gay marriage worship another Jesus, a different gospel, and proclaim another Spirit (2 Cor 11.4). These are not two ways of being Christian; they are two religions worshipping different gods."
Read moreANIS: I would say it is getting better. The majority of Middle Eastern people, Christians and Muslims, can't tolerate exclusion and discrimination. The best example is the revolution of the Egyptians on the 30th of June 2013, when the people rejected the Muslim Brotherhood ruling which discriminated against the moderate Muslims and Christians. The same is happening now in Tunisia, Libya and Sudan. I would say that we are moving towards inclusive citizenship, but it is not an easy road.
Read moreWhile mixing faith and politics is not new, (evangelicals began this with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority), the unholy mix of revisionist theology and liberal politics publicly displayed by Buttigieg cast a deep pall over evangelicals and conservative Catholics, indicating to them just how far cultural Marxism has taken hold of the American imagination.
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