🇺🇸 No Separation Of Church And State? New York City Mayor Sparks A Furor 🔌

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights the controversy over New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ comments on the separation of church and state — or the lack thereof. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

The Archbishop Of Canterbury Prepares To Stand Down

(OPINION) In England, proclaiming God’s blessing on same-sex relationships has become the new orthodoxy for clergy with established ties to the powers that be. But that’s not the case in Nigeria and the Global South, where Anglican leaders have urged the Church of England to consider the impact of its actions on believers facing conflict with Jihadi terrorists.

Lessons From The Old Jesus Revolution For The New Jesus Revolution

(OPINION) We cannot afford to repeat the errors of the Jesus revolution of the 1960s in the days ahead, as thousands (millions?) of young people (and others) from many different backgrounds begin to pour into our churches, looking for God, looking for hope, looking for meaning, looking for truth.

We Cannot Give In To The Distractions Of The Modern World

(OPINION) No generation in history has had so many distractions to deal with. No generation in history has had so many temptations. No generation in history has had so much entertainment and defilement available right at our fingertips (quite literally). That means that it is much harder to live consecrated, undistracted lives for the Lord — lives that are free from the contamination of sin and the saturation of the world.

OpinionDr. Michael BrownMarch 1, 2023Dr. Michael Brown, Ask Dr. Brown, Christianity, Temptation, Technology, Prayer, Faith, Sin, Michael BrownComment

Why Businessman Peter Chung Is Key Player In The Future Of The King’s College

(ANALYSIS) It would be smart for religion reporters, business reporters and education reporters to dig more into Canadian businessman Peter Chung and his involvement with King’s in the past two years as well as his other business ventures through Primacorp Ventures Inc. and the Emanata Group.

The Special Theory Of Relativity And The Reality Of St. Paul

(OPINION) The Bible isn’t intended as a scientific textbook, and science doesn’t prove the Scriptures true. But there’s no doubt those ancient nomads, carpenters and fishermen had tapped into something way beyond themselves. They sensed truths they had no logical means of proving.

From Catholicism To ‘Jew-ish’: How George Santos Pulled Off His Religiously Intersectional Fraud

(OPINION) Santos’ intersectionality worked perfectly in a congressional district that is itself exceedingly diverse and arguably somewhat tribal. I write from experience as I lived in that district for several years and understand the dynamics firsthand.

History Repeats: Could The Asbury Revival Last 100 Years Like The Moravian Revival in Germany?

(OPINION) As odd as all this might seem, spontaneous revivals in Christianity aren’t terribly unusual. On Feb. 3, 1970, a revival erupted at what was then Asbury College. That one, too, began at a morning chapel service. It lasted 185 hours nonstop. Intermittently, it continued for weeks. Ultimately it spread across the United States and to other countries.

📰 Surprise! Spiritual Revival Is Big News, From New York Times to Christianity Today 🔌

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights the spiritual revival that drew thousands to Asbury University, a small Christian college in Kentucky. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

At Asbury, 2023 Revival Has Been ‘Deja Vu All Over Again’

(OPINION) The atmosphere in Hughes Auditorium was electric as Asbury students — many in tears — streamed to the altar to pray, while worshippers sang hymns, mixed with Bible readings, testimonies and public prayers of repentance.

OpinionTerry MattinglyFebruary 23, 2023Terry Mattingly, On Religion, Asbury Revival, Revival, Asbury University, Generation Z, Gen Z, WorshipComment

5 Books About Lent That Will Help You Prepare For Easter

The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts about six weeks, culminating with Easter Sunday. It is the day Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. Ahead of the Lenten season, here are five books about this prayerful season that will prepare Christians for Easter.

Do American Evangelicals Suffer ‘Second Class’ Status Among Political Conservatives?

(OPINION) One reason the media often fail to “get” American evangelical Protestantism is that it’s a complex mashup of elements, not simply an alliance of conventional church bodies. This overlapping empire is important, and over the decades it rallied prominently at trade shows for retailers and broadcasters and the annual National Prayer Breakfast.

A Good Thing Happened When The New York Times Sat Down With A Baptist

(OPINION) A New York Times piece was an example of what dialogue between church folks and the secular media can look like if people on both sides check their preconceptions, remain open and speak civilly. They might not form a merger, but they can come to know each other.

After Our Corporate Humiliation, God Is Pouring Out His Spirit On The Church

(OPINION) The refiner’s fire has come to the church of America in the last few years, bringing our impurities to the surface for the world to see. And those fires will continue to burn in our land, bringing us to deeper repentance. But the Spirit is also being poured out as well.

How the Pope and an American Cardinal Ignited New Debates On Sex And The Eucharist

(OPINION) When popes talk about sex, it tends to make headlines. This was certainly true when Pope Francis told The Associated Press last month the Catholic Church opposes criminalizing homosexuality and that “we are all children of God, and God loves us as we are.” The pope then noted that homosexual activity is “not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin.”

FBI Fears Faithful Catholics: These Colleges Are The Cells Of Orthodoxy

(OPINION) Apparently hoping to draw further congressional attention to its politicization, the FBI is reportedly warning of “radical traditionalist Catholics” who might become White supremacists. An FBI field office in Virginia compiled its intelligence bulletin using the discredited and professional grifting organization the Southern Poverty Law Center. It also cited an Atlantic article that referred to the rosary, a set of prayer beads, as a “weapon.”

We All Fall, But If We’re Lucky We Fall Upward

(OPINION) In the first part of life, we’re controlled by the fear-based preoccupations of the lizard brain. This is natural. Then, at some point, something happens — usually a cataclysmic fall. Such a fall can destroy us if we let it. But it also can serve as an upward call.

AI, The Rise Of Religious ‘Nones’ And The Artifice Of Intelligence

(OPINION) Artificial intelligence technologies are bad when they become an artifice, which means contrived or false. The artifice of intelligence makes people “see only what new technologies can do and are incapable of imagining what they will undo.”

Why Foreign Aid Is Not Changing Africa And What Can Be Done

(OPINION) The goal of aid is to end situations that lead to aid. It is estimated that the West has given $1.2 trillion in aid and development assistance to Africa since 1990 according to Greg Mills in the book “Expensive Poverty.” Much of that aid came from the U.S. But sadly the foreign aid has had little or no impact on bettering the lives of poor Africans.

🏈 100 Million Super Bowl Viewers Expected To See Jesus — And Two Christian Quarterbacks 🔌

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights the religion angles in this weekend’s Super Bowl. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

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