(ChurchLeaders) After receiving widespread criticism, Arizona megachurch Dream City Church and the maker of an air-filtration system the church is using both walked back claims about preventing the spread of Covid-19. Phoenix-based Dream City Church, which hosted a Students for Trump rally on Tuesday, had been plugging a system from Clean Air EXP, … [Read more...] about Dream City Church That Hosted Trump Rally Backtracks on COVID-19 Air Safety Claim
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Black Lives Matter Activist Tells Rioters to Protest Catholic Parish for Being ‘Trump Supporters’
(LifeSite News) A Black Lives Matter activist used social media to call on mobs and rioters to protest a Catholic parish in San Diego, saying that the “white” parishioners did not think black lives mattered and they were “staunch” Trump supporters. Local Catholics, including the pastor of St. Anne Catholic Church in San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood, took the threat … [Read more...] about Black Lives Matter Activist Tells Rioters to Protest Catholic Parish for Being ‘Trump Supporters’
Mississippi Baptists: Confederate Flag is ‘Relic of Racism’, Call for Change
(ChurchLeaders) Southern Baptists in Mississippi are asking their state legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the corner of the Mississippi state flag. Calling the issue a “moral” one, the religious leaders believe standing against a symbol such as the Confederate flag, which many see as a symbol of racism, “is a matter of biblical morality.” Given the current … [Read more...] about Mississippi Baptists: Confederate Flag is ‘Relic of Racism’, Call for Change
Survey: Most Americans Aren’t Comfortable Going Back to Religious Services
(RNS) A new study examining Americans’ response to COVID-19 shows that with the exception of white evangelicals, a majority of Americans are not comfortable returning to in-person religious services. The results of the survey suggest that despite political pressure to reopen houses of worship — from President Donald Trump as well as leading conservative Christians and … [Read more...] about Survey: Most Americans Aren’t Comfortable Going Back to Religious Services
Ed Stetzer Calls Out Misogyny in the Church after Degrading Comments from Church Leaders Surface
(Christian Headlines) A debate on the role of women leaders in the church has resurfaced after social media pages revealed some complementarians privately decrying author Aimee Byrd. In a Facebook group called Geneva Commons, elders from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church in America discussed Byrd, a Christian author and speaker. “I wish her husband … [Read more...] about Ed Stetzer Calls Out Misogyny in the Church after Degrading Comments from Church Leaders Surface