United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly Wednesday overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nations second-largest Protestant body. 　　With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of self-avowed practicing homosexualsa prohibition that dates to 1984. 　　With...

　　In many countries, politicians try to win over religious voters by highlighting areas of shared interest between their agenda and the faithfuls priorities. In Venezuela, candidates are offering pastors cash. 　　With less than three months until Venezuelas presidential elections, incumbent Nicols Maduro is expanding two initiatives specifically aimed at the evangelical community, which represents 30.9 percent of the countrys population....

　　I first picked up F. A. Hayek sometime around 2010. Everyone was doing it; it was the right’s Hayekian moment. I had not had occasion to read Hayek, having written my dissertation on Scholasticism. I was unable to find a Latin translation of The Road to Serfdom, so I had to settle for reading it in my native language, but...

　　“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.’” - Exodus 10:21 　　We measure much of our lives by the obstacles we face. I wonder, though, what would happen if we instead measured life by God's faithfulness and steadfastness? Obstacles are...

　　In many countries, politicians try to win over religious voters by highlighting areas of shared interest between their agenda and the faithfuls priorities. In Venezuela, candidates are offering pastors cash. 　　With less than three months until Venezuelas presidential elections, incumbent Nicols Maduro is expanding two initiatives specifically aimed at the evangelical community, which represents 30.9 percent of the countrys population....

　　Commentary on Today's Verse 　　Complete Concise 　　Chapter Contents 　　The apostle admires the love of God in making believers his children. (1,2) The purifying influence of the hope of seeing Christ, and the danger of pretending to this, and living in sin. (3-10) Love to the brethren is the character of real Christians. (11-15) That love described by its actings. (16-21)...

　　Freedom in Grace 　　Weekly Overview: 　　Grace is a gift most of us don’t know how to receive. We’ve been so inundated with the earthly systems of give-and-get and work-and-earn that grace is a concept few ever fully grasp. Yet it’s grace alone that has the power to transform lives. Grace alone has the power to bring freedom to the captives....

　　1 John 4:18 In-Context 　　16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 　　17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus....