Tag: religion

Mennonite Church Changes Stance to One in Favour of LGBTQ Community

One of America’s most outwardly conservative denominations has recently come out in favor of embracing members of the LGBTQ+ community. The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is one of America’s most theologically radical Protestant Christian denominations, with ties to the Amish. Both groups trace the lineage of their faith to 16th-century Anabaptists. Mennonites believe in…


Mennonite Church Changes Stance in Favor of LGBTQ Community

One of America’s most outwardly conservative denominations has recently come out in favor of embracing members of the LGBTQ+ community. The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is one of America’s most theologically radical Protestant Christian denominations, with ties to the Amish. Both groups trace the lineage of their faith to 16th-century Anabaptists. Mennonites believe in…


Mennonite Church Changes Stance in Favor of LGBT Community

One of America’s most outwardly conservative denominations has recently come out in favor of embracing members of the LGBT community. The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is one of America’s most theologically radical Protestant Christian denominations, with ties to the Amish. Both groups trace the lineage of their faith to 16th-century Anabaptists. Mennonites believe in…


The New Religion of Wokeism

Commentary  Have Americans truly turned away from religion? Or have they merely found a new faith? A 2016 poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 25 percent of all Americans described their religion as “none.” That description was particularly prominent among elite urban, affluent, credentialed, professional, and young Americans. Do those respondents…


Over 100 Florida Churches File Suit to Leave United Methodist Church

A schism characterized by documents on “grace through separation” has brought forth a lawsuit. In Florida, 106 churches sued the United Methodist Church (UMC) because it charged them large amounts of money to leave, according to a recently filed lawsuit. The National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL) represents these churches. The departure price varies…


Is Atheism Dead? Two Viewpoints

At FreedomFest in Las Vegas, I wanted to hear diverging viewpoints, and I found this in a conversation with an evangelical Christian and an atheist. Eric Metaxas is a host and author of a book called “Is Atheism Dead,” and Michael Shermer is a founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine and author of “Why People Believe…


Wokeness: A New Religion?

Commentary Civilizations tend to repeat the ideological pattern that made them strong in the first place. At first, these patterns have theological form and substance. But if belief in God becomes obsolete, they tend to continue the same pattern in secular form, minus religious substance. To visit my neighbor’s home at Christmas is to enter…


‘Agency’: An Important New Book About America

Commentary The Gallup polling organization seems to serve up endlessly bleak news about how Americans feel about God and country. I wrote recently about their report of the historically low percentage of Americans that say they believe in God. Now Gallup reports that a historically low number of Americans believe in ourselves and our country….


Religious Fervor Among the Woke

Commentary The woke have not only adopted the ideology of “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), and assertions such as “diversity is our strength” (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), but adhere to these ideas not so much as preferred guidelines or scientific hypotheses, but as religious truths not to be questioned. Any misguided or…


Christianity Declines While More Report Having ‘No Religion’ in Australia

The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was…