Posts by Kevin Schaal
United Methodists Fracture: LGBTQ Plan Rejected – The Atlantic
This is an unexpected turn of events. This story continues to unfold. There is also a CT article on this, here.(KSchaal) The United Methodist Church has fractured over the role of LGBTQ people in the denomination. At a special conference in St. Louis this week, convened specifically to address divisions over LGBTQ issues, members voted…
Read MoreSenate Vote Against Born-Alive Infants Proves Democrats Aren’t ‘Pro-Choice.’ They’re Pro-Infanticide
Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris wants to force every American to give up his private health insurance, but she can’t get herself to support legislation that compels doctors to give an infant who survives an abortion attempt the same care they would provide any other human being. She’s merely one of 44 Democrats who blocked a…
Read MoreTrue New Testament Christianity is More than the Fundamentals
The United Methodist Church is headed for a break-up over LGBTQ clergy. Before that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (and many other denominational groups) in one way or another affirmed same sex unions and some even gay clergy. So, this question arises. Can a church or denomination affirm the…
Read MoreTrump administration to ban abortion referrals by taxpayer-funded family planning clinics | Fox News
The Trump administration announced Friday that it intends to bar taxpayer-funded family planning centers from promoting or perfoming abortions or referring women to other clinics for them — a move that is likely to yank money from groups like Planned Parenthood.The Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Title X program, a family-planning grant…
Read MoreWhat Happened When Other Denominations Passed Their Own “One Church Plan”? – Juicy Ecumenism
Recent history is abundantly clear – liberalizing church teaching and practice on human sexuality brings division and not unity, it limits ecumenical work on global missions, it creates a smaller, older, and less diverse membership, and promises of respecting traditional biblical perspectives and members are almost never kept.Not one mainline Protestant denomination has experienced the…
Read MoreDoes the Bible Support Female Deacons? No.
Does Scripture permit women to hold the office of deacon? In addressing this important question, we must bear a couple of things in mind. First, Reformed pastors and theologians, fully committed to the authority and inerrancy of Scripture, have disagreed about what the Bible teaches concerning women and the diaconate. This state of affairs calls…
Read MoreHate Hoaxes Are What Happen When Your Religion Is Identity Politics
When Christianity was still a baby religion, it dealt with its first case of hypocrisy. The Bible records the story in Acts 5: Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple in the church at Jerusalem, sold a piece of property. They made it known that they were donating all their proceeds to the poor, but they…
Read MoreSouthern Baptist head calls for reforms, potential removal of multiple Houston churches – HoustonChronicle.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn.— The president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday evening called for a “season of lament, sorrow, and repentance” over a sexual abuse crisis, and provided a list of 10 churches, including Second Baptist Church in Houston, that he said should be scrutinized for their handling of sexual abuses and potentially removed from…
Read MoreHymnals Still Have a Place in Modern Churches | RealClearReligion
Hymnals, a historic legacy of Western Christianity, have been housed in pew racks in church sanctuaries for centuries, and those with musical notation as well as words have existed since the 1830s in the United States. They have been indispensable for worship for all that time, objects of treasure both in the sanctuary and in…
Read MoreT.D. Jakes Comes Out for ‘Gay Rights’ and ‘LGBT Churches,’ Says Position is ‘Evolving’ | Christian News Network
Megachurch leader and author T.D. Jakes says that homosexuals should attend congregations that affirm their lifestyle and that politics do not need to reflect biblical ethics, adding that his position on homosexuality is both “evolved and evolving.”During an interview with the Huffington Post on Monday, Jakes was asked by a viewer if he believes that…
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