Every year between 1984 and 2017, Harvard University awarded its Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. It went to individuals whom the foundation deemed worthy because of their philanthropic support of various humanitarian causes. In 2017, it last prize went to singer Elton John. Other past honorees included Archbishop…
Tania Fernandes Anderson is a city council member in Boston, Massachusetts. She describes herself as “the first formally undocumented African born immigrant, and first Muslim elected in the city of Boston.” Since being elected, she has stated that her goal is to create a revolution for equity.
But there is…
As we engage this political season, both presidential candidates are trying to woo the evangelical vote. In the past, President Trump got the bulk of that vote. The reason is not because he is such a faithful Christian. In fact, he has been heavily criticized by many on both the…
The political policies that currently hold sway in American society are not leading to positive outcomes. While those who support the current course would probably disagree, the end result of those policies are things such as:
Lawlessness
Open borders
Rampant crime
The destruction of American institutions
Hate on the streets…
There was a massive amount of publicity around the opening ceremony of the recent Paris Olympics. The event that created the biggest stir was a display featuring drag queens parodying Leonardo de Vinci’s iconic painting of “The Last Supper.”
When the blowback started, the organizers first tried to say it…
Every church, regardless of its size or programming, does some level of Christian discipleship training for its people. Any kind of teaching that shares what the Bible teaches about God and His will for believers’ is a Christian discipleship training event – even if it is not billed or generally…
During this political season, there’s a lot of talk about “the evangelical vote.” While the focus of evangelicals is not on politics, they do tend to vote somewhat as a block based on their preference for a point of view that corresponds to the teachings of the Bible. As such,…
In the 1970s, an openly gay man sought ordination in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA). After a two year study by a task force, the church concluded that homosexuals should not be ordained in the ministry. That all changed in 2011 when the denomination ordained…
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