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August 09 2023 By dvirtue Divinity Schools and Diversity

Many of us know that earlier generations of Christians tried to make the Scriptures support eugenics, persecution of Jews, and racial segregation. All three of these dastardly practices were popular with cultured elites in their day. Today we condemn those Christians who misused the Bible for those purposes, and in principle reject any misapplication of Scripture to suit the latest dominant mores.

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August 06 2023 By dvirtue A YEAR ON FROM THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE

In his video marking the first anniversary since the gathering, Welby looked back and remarked that those gathered at the Lambeth Conference had "offered and received hospitality from one another".

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August 03 2023 By dvirtue GOP LEADERS BACKING TRUMP ARE IN A MORAL ABYSS

As sheep do, the animals allow themselves to be blindly guided by the canine, which drives them off a cliff to their deaths. The dog meanwhile remains safely at the top of the precipice, impervious to the fact that it has destroyed everything his master has worked so hard to achieve.

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August 02 2023 By dvirtue The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church

A new book, written by Jim Davis, a pastor at an evangelical church in Orlando, and Michael Graham, a writer with the Gospel Coalition, draws on surveys of more than 7,000 Americans by the political scientists Ryan Burge and Paul Djupe, attempting to explain why people have left churches--or "dechurched," in the book's lingo--and what, if anything, can be done to get some people to come back.

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August 01 2023 By dvirtue AMERICA WITHOUT GOD

Not so long ago, I could comfort American audiences with a contrast: Whereas in the Middle East, politics is war by other means--and sometimes is literal war--politics in America was less existentially fraught. During the Arab Spring, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, debates weren't about health care or taxes--they were, with sometimes frightening intensity, about foundational questions: What does it mean to be a nation? What is the purpose of the state?

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August 01 2023 By dvirtue God's revelation is adapted to the receivers' world view - Michael Nazir-Ali

The earliest engagement of the gospel was in a Jewish context and the Apostles and other disciples tried to show how the good news about Jesus Christ was entirely in accord with the scriptures and with Jewish expectations. However, they developed a different approach to Gentile cultures.

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July 31 2023 By dvirtue The Most Important Decision in Life

It is to the permanent honor of this college that it was founded, almost 180 years ago, by Free Will Baptists who were committed to the abolition of slavery. Hillsdale's founders were on the right side of the most compelling moral debate of the nineteenth century--and it is worth remarking that the leadership of this college today finds itself on the right side of the most pressing ethical argument of our time--namely, the protection of the unborn.

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July 24 2023 By dvirtue EX GAYS SPEAK OUT: WHY IS THEIR TESTIMONY IGNORED BY ANGLICAN LEADERS

Growing up, boys started to bully me badly. It was totally not my fault that my face was full of gross acne and my body barely triggering the indicator of the weighing scale. My body had become my greatest enemy. Unfortunately, it felt like a curse I couldn't escape. Worse was that I was seeing it everyday. "If I was a female", I'd say," life would be much easier. Make-up can easily cover this messed-up face and many females like their bodies very slim!"

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July 20 2023 By dvirtue Secular Pentecostals vs. Secular Episcopalians: What Happens When Both Sides Secularize

I've lived long enough to see that my denomination is hardly different when it comes to morally compromised people making a hasty comeback. Still, what sticks out to me is not the literal reality of this man's statement so much as the metaphor of it all--a metaphor that explains a good bit of what's going on in our current American social crisis.

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July 20 2023 By dvirtue Comprehensive Sexuality Education [CSE], Kids and Us

CSE [Comprehensive Sexuality Education], Kids and Us: A revolution in progress. Part 1.

I am entering a minefield of complex, multi-faceted, highly-emotive and with, at times, contradictory strands, which I can only begin to unpack. Others may have different experiences and come to different conclusions, which is fair enough. More in Part 2.

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