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...

　　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....

　　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....

　　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 the March-April 2024 Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, there is an article that may drastically affect the practice of pharmacy in the United States. It is, unfortunately, not an article that describes a new life-saving drug that pharmacists can counsel their patients to use correctly, but rather it is about “Exploring LGBTQ+ cultural competency and DEI in continuing...

　　A joke told often in Budapest says that World War III will be lost by whichever side Hungary is on. Balázs Orbán, the political director for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (the two are not related), notes in his new book, Hussar Cut, that the political compromise of 1867 that incorporated Hungary into the Austrian Empire “involved the voluntary surrender of...

　　When Your Spouse Doubts God 　　By Heather Riggleman 　　So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” 　　But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” - John 20:25 　　It felt so fresh and...

　　Living Compassionately 　　Weekly Overview: 　　In response to knowing the heart of God we are called to share the wonders of his invisible nature with a world in desperate need of him. God has chosen to use us to reveal himself. He’s filled us with the Spirit and empowered us to proclaim the good news of salvation and restored relationship with...

　　Weekend, May 27, 2024 　　The Great Tragedy 　　For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. (2 Corinthians 5:10 NLT) 　　Imagine for a moment that someone approached you and said, “I want to make a deal with you. I will...

　　“He [Tom Ripley] will always get away with it,” said Patricia Highsmith in an interview once. Tom Ripley—Highsmith’s most famous character, and the main protagonist of five of her novels—is a man, whom readers both love and hate. Through Highsmith’s prose, Ripley has made violence, theft, and murder into nothing more than a domestic affair, or sipping on an espresso...