| | Poll shows most Americans support public funding for pro-life pregnancy centers | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Wednesday, August 24, and today's headlines include the latest research on Americans' views on the funding of pro-life pregnancy centers, a Baylor University professor's insights on racism, and a Christian school administrator who has received threats over the school's LGBT policy. | | After learning about the services provided by pro-life pregnancy centers, a poll conducted by CRC Research in early August revealed that 74% of Americans support the public funding of pro-life pregnancy centers despite politicians and corporations working to discourage the public from accessing them. Just 14% of the 1,600 likely voters who were surveyed opposed the idea of providing public funding to pro-life pregnancy centers. Prior to hearing details about what these centers provide, 64% of those surveyed supported public funding of such organizations, including 70% of Democrats, 66% of liberals, 65% of moderates, 64% of conservatives, 62% of Independents and 62% of Republicans. The likely voters who participated in the survey began to change their views about pro-life pregnancy centers after learning more about them. | | Many pregnancy centers across the U.S. have suffered vandalism and violence in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The poll found that 80% support prosecuting those responsible for vandalism against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches. Internet directory service Yelp recently announced it will add disclaimers to listings about pro-life pregnancy centers, with Yelp's Vice President of User Operations Noelle Malik defending the move as part of the company's "efforts to provide consumers with access to reliable information about reproductive health." Read more. | | P.S. From daily news to weekend headlines, we've got you covered. Whether you're interested in religious liberty or inspiring faith stories, there is something for everyone. Check out CP's full newsletter lineup to subscribe to our latest free offerings. See more. |
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| Christian school administrator receives threats after media reports on LGBT school policy | | Barry McKeen, an administrator for Grace Christian School in Florida, says he's received threats over media reports about a school policy that requires students to be identified by their biological sex. McKeen announced in a June 6 email that any students who violate the school's stance on sexuality would "be asked to leave the school immediately." McKeen told The Christian Post that the email—which outlined definitions of biological sex and sexual sin with specific references to Bible verses—was sent as part of a regular series of summer emails reminding parents of school policies. The administrator says the school has had a similar policy in place for years, and to date, no student has been excused or expelled over the policy. McKeen said the policy is "literally verbatim" in the handbooks of more than a dozen other Christian schools, and aside from terminology updates, the policy is the same as it was when the school started in 1975. Following an NBC News story on the school's policy, a law enforcement presence has been on campus, with McKeen explaining that two separate individuals have threatened him personally, including one who said they would "burn my house down." Read more. | | Baylor scholar talks shortcomings of 'anti-racism' ideology | | George Yancey, professor at the Institute for Studies of Religion and Sociology at Baylor University, says that "anti-racism" ideology, however well intended, fails to take into consideration the sinfulness of all human beings, including people of color. While Yancey, an academic who has researched and written multiple books on the topic, does not deny that racism exists, he says that human depravity isn't taken seriously enough—and that applies across the board for all races. "Because of human depravity, as an African American, a white person can’t completely trust me to find the best solutions because I'm going to have an interest as an African American, nor can I trust a white person completely ... this is a human condition, so in order to neutralize that, I have to hear from that white person and that white person has to hear from me, and then we can work together to find solutions," he explains. Read more. | | Court rules Episcopal Church not entitled to 6 church properties | | The South Carolina Supreme Court has lowered the number of church properties that a breakaway diocese must return to The Episcopal Church. While the state supreme court ordered the breakaway diocese, which is now affiliated with the Anglican Church in North America, to hand back 14 properties in April, in an opinion issued last Wednesday, the court reduced that number to eight. According to the state supreme court, six parishes had successfully amended their bylaws not to have had their properties held in trust with the national denomination. As a result, The Episcopal Church could not rightly claim to own their properties under South Carolina law, allowing them to stay with the breakaway Anglican diocese. Bishop Chip Edgar, head of the Anglican diocese, said in a statement that he is "grateful" for the six properties coming back but also "saddened" over those congregations that lost their properties. Read more. |
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| Will preaching God's Word soon be illegal? | | Dr. Joseph Mattera writes about the Californa State Assembly's approval of Bill AB 2943 in 2018, which stipulated that the Church can no longer preach or teach that homosexuality is wrong and cannot try to correct that behavior. Although the bill later died, Mattera warns that just one state passing such a bill could swiftly turn into multiple progressive "copy states" taking action, leading it to be the law of the land. "[O]ne radical segment of society is getting bolder and more influential in its attempt to eradicate both the Bible and biblical Christianity from both the United States and Western civilization. If the overall church doesn’t wake up, serve humanity, and influence culture (the way the generation of the original Framers did), we may find the Bible outlawed, the way it was in Russia, China, and all tyrannical, atheistic nations," he writes. Read more. | | The tide is turning against transgender activism | | As multiple countries reverse course on transgender activism, many Americans are starting to wake up and say, "Enough is enough," Dr. Michael Brown writes. Brown highlights several grassroots and federal level efforts to speak the truth when it comes to biological sex and calls out the irreparable damage that has physically destroyed many young people via cross-sex hormones and genital mutilating surgeries. "Let us do our best to hasten the societal turn by continuing to get the truth out. The time for doing that is now," he urges. Read more. |
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| The City on the Hill is Being Trashed | | Some may say, "But Shane, Christianity has always been exposed to wickedness all around her." True, but we aren’t in North Korea or Iraq, or even in early Rome. In America, we have been given an extraordinary gift to steward, at least for now. | | Has God not withdrawn His gracious hand because of compromise, capitulation, and cowardliness? I believe that He has. Read More | | |
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| Ukraine Independence Day: Churches urged to pray for end of Russian invasion | | As Wednesday marks Ukraine's Independence Day, the anniversary of the day the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Christian nonprofits and churches around the world are being urged to pray for Russia's invasion of Ukraine to end. The World Evangelical Alliance and the European Evangelical Alliance have issued a call for churches and believers worldwide to set aside time on Wednesday to pray that God will bring about an end to the war. "As we look to Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, let us pray for hearts to be changed and for the weapons to be silenced," a World Evangelical Alliance statement reads. Read more. |
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