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| NCAA approves new guidelines for trans-identified athletes | | The NCAA has unveiled a new policy that will allow each sport to determine its policies regarding the participation of trans-identified athletes as outrage over the allowance of biological males who identify as females to compete in women’s athletics spreads. The new policy comes as Lia Thomas, a trans-identified biological male who competes on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team, has received much pushback after breaking women’s swimming records after competing for years on the men's team. Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-identified retired Olympic track star who won a gold medal in 1976 under the name Bruce Jenner and first began identifying as a woman in 2015, is one of several decorated athletes who have weighed in on the controversy, saying, "Biological boys, I’ve said from the beginning, should not be playing in women’s sports." |
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| Jewish couple sue Tenn. over alleged rejection as foster trainees at Christian home | | A married Jewish couple are suing the state of Tennessee in response to reportedly being rejected by a government-supported Christian children’s home when they tried to foster a child. According to their suit, the couple, Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram, planned to foster a boy living in Florida but needed to fulfill a state requirement to complete a program in foster-parent-training and earn a certification in home-study to do so. However, when they sought to complete these programs through the state-supported Holston United Methodist Home for Children, according to the complaint, the home said they could only provide such services to families that shared their Christian beliefs. The couple assert "the Tennessee General Assembly expressly approved religious discrimination like Holston’s, by enacting House Bill 836,” which "authorizes child-placing agencies to deny child-placement services, based on the agencies’ religious policies, even if state tax dollars fund the services.” |
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| 11 children among 29 killed by stampede at Liberian worship crusade | | At least 29 people, including 11 children, have been pronounced dead after a stampede at a church gathering in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, Wednesday night. Hundreds were in attendance at an all-night Christian crusade, which took place at an open-air Pentecostal church on the outskirts of the capital in the New Kru Town neighborhood when the incident happened. According to police officials who spoke with BBC, the stampede occurred after a street gang entered the revival area after a monetary collection was taken at the end of the event. |
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| CP Voices: In abortion controversy, 2 worldviews collide | | Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, writes about growing up pro-choice and how his understanding of the sanctity of life was changed when he came to know Christ. "What’s really taking place in America is conflicting worldviews when it comes to sexuality, freedom, and family. On the one hand, the rejection of traditional family morals has led to a false notion of freedom. Without a child, I’m free to explore the heights of my career. I can travel the world. I can have multiple sexual partners. No strings, no responsibility, all freedom. But it’s an empty freedom," he says. Click to keep reading. |
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| Holcomb talks building bridges through song | | In this interview with The Christian Post, Dove Award-winning singer Ellie Holcomb discusses the division that exists in the U.S. today, the large number of young people who have left the Church, and how she hopes her recently-released EP, "Coming Home: A Collection of Songs," will resonate with listeners. "I think I hope it feels like a warm embrace, like a reminder that we all belong, and reminder that none of us are in this thing called life alone," she explains. |
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| WATCH: Dhati Lewis on leaving Send Network for urban church planting initiative | | Pastor Dhati Lewis of Blueprint Church in Atlanta is kicking off the new year with a major change, as he shifts from his role at the Southern Baptist Convention's Send Network to launch a church planting initiative called My BLVD ("Boulevard') aimed at helping churches and church planters in urban areas disciple their community. In this video with The Christian Post, Lewis discusses his time with Send Network and his excitement for the new initiative, saying, "If I want to see more minority leaders, I have to raise up more minority leaders within my context and then send them out." |
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