(ChurchLeaders) I was dismissed from my job last week after I publicly shared my experience getting the COVID-19 vaccination. While I don’t believe that I violated their policy, I harbor no animosity toward my former employer, who are my brothers and sisters in Christ. It was an honor to serve Christian communicators who work every day to share the Gospel around the … [Read more...] about Daniel Darling: I Wrote About Why I Got a COVID Vaccination. Then I Was Fired From My Job.
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Most White Americans Who Regularly Attend Worship Services Voted for Trump in 2020
(Pew Research Center) Similar to past elections, religion played an important role in the 2020 U.S. presidential contest: Republican candidate Donald Trump continued to garner strong support from White evangelical Protestants, while Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated backed the Democratic candidate and eventual winner, President Joe Biden. But religious … [Read more...] about Most White Americans Who Regularly Attend Worship Services Voted for Trump in 2020
Liberty University Moves to Online Classes to Slow Spread of COVID-19 on Campus
(CBN News) Liberty University has announced a "temporary mitigation period" in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 on its campus. The campus-wide quarantine began Monday and will last until Sept. 10, according to several news outlets. "This is NOT a campus-wide lockdown," the Lynchburg, Va.-based university said in a statement. "This period is simply a temporary … [Read more...] about Liberty University Moves to Online Classes to Slow Spread of COVID-19 on Campus
First Nations Version Translates the New Testament for Native American Readers
(RNS) It’s a Bible verse familiar to many Christians — and even to many non-Christians who have seen John 3:16 on billboards and T-shirts or scrawled across eye black under football players’ helmets. But Terry Wildman hopes the new translation published Tuesday (Aug. 31) by InterVarsity Press, “First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament,” will help … [Read more...] about First Nations Version Translates the New Testament for Native American Readers
Evangelicals: You’re Still Not Really Listening to What Exvangelicals Are Saying
by Blake Chastain (RNS) In a recent episode of Christianity Today's "The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill" podcast, host Mike Cosper spends some time with several guests reflecting on the growing ranks of exvangelicals — those who have left white evangelicalism for a different form of faith or for no faith at all. Cosper's tone and that of his guests is sober, grieved: Why … [Read more...] about Evangelicals: You’re Still Not Really Listening to What Exvangelicals Are Saying