| | Who's running for president in 2024? | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Thursday, August 31, and today's headlines include a roundup of the current presidential candidates, churches stepping in to help in the wake of Hurricane Idalia, and a faith-inspired docuseries that's headed to Amazon Freevee. | | Despite polls showing that a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is the most likely outcome, numerous candidates have tossed their hats into the 2024 presidential ring. This article from CP highlights a few facts about each of the declared candidates running for president. Read the list now. |
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| Churches offer help as Idalia batters Florida | | At least two people died in weather-related crashes in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Idalia. Churches across the state canceled their services, offered assistance and hunkered down as the Category 3 storm made landfall in the Sunshine State on Wednesday. More than 263,000 residents remain without power; a hurricane and storm surge warning along with a mandatory evacuation order remain in effect in Cedar Key. Read more. | | Pastor indicted with Trump released on bail | | Pastor Stephen Lee of Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, Ill., has been released from jail thanks to funds raised by the Illinois Family Institute and prominent conservative influencer Silk (Herneitha Richardson). Lee is one of over a dozen individuals indicted with former President Donald Trump by a grand jury in Georgia in connection with efforts to contest the 2020 presidential election results in the state. A honey company is also donating profits toward the cause. Read more. | | Armed churchgoer arrested at LGBT-affirming church | A congregant from All Peoples Church in Fort Worth, Texas, has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat, cruelty to a non-livestock animal and carrying weapons in a prohibited place after killing his dog and admitting to a church administrator who found him in the church building "that he planned further carnage." Police don't believe the incident was a hate crime against the LGBT-affirming Unitarian Universalist church. Read more.Also of Interest ...Christians respond to ChatGPT's fake Bible passageBlanchard’s prostitution charge expunged |
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| Is Christianity really a white man's religion? | | Oscar Amaechina, president of Afri-Mission and Evangelism Network, says it's blasphemous for a Christian to claim that Christianity is a white man's religion. Amid the push for Africans to return to African Traditional Religion, Amaechina calls out racism and exclusivity and asserts, "In Christ, there is no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles." Read more. | | The lies of gender ideologues | | The Daily Signal's Douglas Blair writes about a U.K. gender clinic approving a 22-year-old woman with 14 diagnoses including "mild mental retardation [and] attachment disorder" for a sex-change surgery despite her diagnoses and inability to read. Blair slams media attempts to discredit a U.S. whistleblower and warns that vulnerable populations, including children, "are being targeted ... by radicals preying on their insecurities." Read more. |
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| Taking on Modern Day Goliaths | | This world has a lot of giants! Scholastic is not the company so many remember as children. Scholastic is how all of these deranged books are getting into our schools. They host over 75,000 anti-Biblical book fairs a year and promote "LGBTQIA+" children’s content. BRAVE is now taking them on... Learn More About the War on Scholastic | | |
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| Study: Pastors struggle to find successors | | A study from Barna indicates that a majority of pastors (75%) believe it's becoming harder to find mature young Christians to step into their roles as they prepare to retire. Meanwhile, 71% of pastors at least somewhat agree that they are "concerned about the quality of future Christian leaders." Read more. |
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| Russell Wilson backs series about Christian school team | | NFL star Russell Wilson has teamed up with legendary high school football coach and pastor Denny Duron to executive produce a six-episode Amazon Freevee docuseries. "God. Family. Football," which premieres on Sept. 1, follows Duron, assistant head coach Fibian Carter and the Evangel Eagles during the 2022 season on their road to redemption after coming off their worst season in school history. Watch CP's interview with Duron and Carter here. | | | | | | | | | | | | Thank you for spending part of your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow! -- CP Editors |
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