When I read the pastor’s reasons for choosing to suspend services, I couldn’t help but think of the one hundred and thirty-five cases of persecution that occurred in the first half of 2020 for Christians in India.
But the debate over Columbus as a racist, a slave trader, and a plunderer, has actually been around for a while.
The BLM website also includes phrases such as "comrade," "struggle" and "collective" – common language for those of the socialist/communist creed.
Is violence the way to advance racial justice in America? Not according to two of the most iconic black leaders of the past.
It’s common today to blame behavioral and institutional corruption on something outside of ourselves. But more often than not, such issues stem from something within – something the Bible calls sin.
What the Johnstonian News described happened next, Bizzell referred to as nothing less than divine intervention:
One of my favorite quotes is by Benjamin Rush, who once shared his thoughts on Patriotism as a moral and religious duty.
Lady Luck is its superstitious deity. It is not in God that the gambler trusts, but in money.
There is a concern of more considerable significance than any of those commonly gleaned from the current coronavirus crisis. It is the possibility that a spiritual message from God could go overlooked.
Helm’s statement is at the heart of the legitimate assertion that Socialism is anti-Christian. As early as 1917, Charles R. Erdman, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, said that Socialism is defective in that it places the physical above the spiritual needs of humanity.
