#: Christianity Today

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From the Clergy Coaching Network

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Generational Faith.

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"I've seen heaven without dying Met the devil without trying and they all seem to wonna talk to me." -Dylan Gossett (Coal)

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Für alle deutschsprachigen queer(freundlich)en Christ*innen würde ich unbedingt dieses Video von Rezo empfehlen. Er bringt das echt gut auf den Punkt, was mich an dieser Seite vom Christentum so aufregt. Den Schluss fand ich auch echt schön.🥰

For all Non-Germans, it's a video where a famous German youtuber, Rezo, reacts to radical christians on tiktok who tell you that you go to hell or whatever for being gay, who claim that real men go to war and modern music is demonic and all that jazz. He transfers a lot of good points about why this is bullcrap. ;)

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by Surinder Kaur | Rioting mobs have taken the lives of at least six people and destroyed or burned down 25 churches in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Since May 3, thousands of victims, the majority of them Christians, have fled as their homes and businesses have gone up in flames...

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Watchman Nee, mártir de la fe en China y uno de los cristianos más influyentes del siglo XX: sus ecos llegan hasta Cuba.  

Recientemente el programa Huellas en la Historia, transmitido por Radio República, estuvo dedicado a Watchmann Nee. El Instituto Patmos lo comparte en formato video a través del canal Cubano Confesante: El movimiento de las denominadas “iglesias Recobro”, o movimiento “Iglesia Local”, proviene de las enseñanzas de iglesias Recobro. Se trata del primer movimiento cristiano nativo en China y…

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While BJU's enrollment is reaching new lows, other conservative evangelical colleges are having the "best ever enrollment numbers."

Specifically:

Asbury University saw enrollment jump 20 percent, while East Texas Baptist University’s student population climbed above 1,800, the highest in the school’s 111-year history. Abilene Christian University has more than 1,000 incoming freshmen, and Cedarville University is celebrating an increase of 374 students for a total incoming class of 1,017. Grace College, marking its 75th anniversary in Winona Lake, Indiana, grew by 465 new undergraduates, and Taylor University, also in Indiana, added 606 students to its rolls. Concordia University, St. Paul, beat its previous record by 218 students. Lipscomb University welcomed more than 700 first-time freshmen. Dordt University’s enrollment climbed to 1,911 students and Samford University’s incoming class is 11 percent larger than last year’s, continuing a decade and a half of growth. Ouachita Baptist University had a 14 percent increase in undergraduates and now has a total of 1,581 undergraduates on its campus in Arkansas. Overall enrollment numbers at schools affiliated with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities are not yet available. But several other evangelical schools have also reported strong numbers, including Houghton Univeristy and Wheaton College, which surpassed its enrollment goal by about 50 students after a few difficult years. College presidents and vice presidents who spoke to CT say prospective students are drawn to the community at small Christian schools. The incoming class suffered through the social isolation imposed on them through the pandemic in high school and now are looking for deep connections in college. They place a high value on the very thing that evangelical institutions have always offered—discipleship, relationships, and a place to grow. “It’s hard to be an 18-year-old student right now,” said Jennifer McChord, Asbury’s vice president of enrollment and marketing. “When they see a place where they can have these meaningful, authentic connections where they are seen and known, it stands out. Because that’s what they’re craving.” Schools like Asbury have also been working very hard to get the message out about the value of Christian higher education. After the institution, named for an early American evangelist, learned that many local high schoolers didn’t know what Asbury was, the marketing department decided to invest in an intensive digital advertising campaign. For the last two years, social media ads have targeted 16- and 17-year-olds in the area who express an interest in growing in their Christian faith and one or more of the academic and extra-curricular programs that Asbury offers. Many Christian schools have made similar shifts in emphasis in the last few years. That “program innovation” seems like it’s paying off for some of them in 2023.... Top Christian college administrators are acutely aware that one or two good years may not signal a reliable upward trend. The president at Bethany said, “no one is spiking the ball,” while the president at Grace said recruiters would need to continue to remember the fundamentals of a good defensive strategy. Many in higher education continue to worry about how declining birthrate will impact the total number of potential college students. Some experts have talked about an “enrollment cliff” as soon as 2025.

Bob Jones University pushed a lot of students away with the Pettit debacle. A lot.

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By far the bulk of establishment Evangelical political/moral theology can be summarised as "If your opinions and actions are such that they would not meet the approval of CNN, Anthony Fauci, and a Fortune 500 HR department, you are not loving your neighbour."

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Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! All this triangle wants for Christmas is a Transuniversal Poly-Dimensional Metavortex. Will you give it to him?

Inspired by @candycatfalls Santa poll ;)

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How To Deal With Sinful Impulses

“I Don’t Want My Son to Inherit the Sins of His Mother,” was the title of an article that caught my attention in Christianity Today online. It was piece on parenting by Anna Taylor discussing the concern we should have for not only the physical health of our children, but more importantly their spiritual well being. It was one of those articles in which I found myself alternating agreeing with…

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First Light

Last Light

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it's hailing today and the gloom outside is casting peculiar shadows around my room...

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Hello, include Jews in discussions about appropriation even when their thought are inconvenient or uncomfortable for you, especially when discussing Christianity and the harm done in its name, thanks 💕

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The truly terrifying thing is that you can't do Christianity as it is today without the cherry-picking. The fundamentalist (across Abrahamic religions) idea of perfection requires you to reconcile inconsistencies in the text for God, but without making any logical leaps that aren't in God's perfect text. God's perfect text that was at the very least composed by fallible human beings over hundreds if not thousands of years, with a basis in oral traditions that would've changed over time because that's how oral traditions work.

The "crisis" has been codified as a method of interpretation that doesn't step on God's holy toes. The inconsistencies only seem like inconsistencies, and what you really need is someone above you in the church structure to sort (cherry-pick) them out for you. He (it's always a "he") may be believed on the basis of his God-given authority.

Well, Rev, if God is out there giving people the authority to ignore certain parts of the text, who's to say the King or the President doesn't have it? Do you assume you'll have more sway over your congregation than a political strongman because they show up and listen on a weekly basis? The conservative noise machine updates way more often than that.

So you want to ignore Jesus being a radical death cultist with a serious temper? Well, now they want to ignore "turn the other cheek." And suddenly people reconciling the inconsistencies in the most convenient way is a "crisis"?

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The state of play today: