| | Tuesday, October 26, 2021 |
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| Church & Ministries | | Study: Majority of Gen Z reject organized religion | | While most people ages 13 to 25, commonly referred to as Generation Z, say they are religious or spiritual, the majority choose to create self-driven pathways of faith, according to a recent study. The study from the Springtide Research Institute also found that of those who identified as Protestant, just 68% said they were a member of a spiritual or religious community. |
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| Politics | | Rep. Banks speaks out: If big tech will silence me, they will silence you | | Twitter has suspended the account of Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., after he posted a tweet noting that President Joe Biden's U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine, who identifies as transgender, is a man. "My tweet was a statement of fact. Big Tech doesn’t have to agree with me, but they shouldn’t be able to cancel me. If they silence me, they will silence you,” Banks later posted on Instagram. |
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| World | | Families of kidnapped missionaries preach forgiveness | | Family members of the 17 missionaries kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti preached forgiveness for their kidnappers days after Wilson Joseph, the gang’s leader, threatened to “put a bullet in the heads” of their loved ones if his $17 million ransom demand for their release isn’t met. A recent video of Joseph, which began making the rounds on social media last week, showed the gang leader wasn't pleased with the pace of ongoing negotiations. |
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| U.S. | | DC officers say they were ordered to get abortions or be fired | | Two female police officers with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department have revealed that when they were cadets, their superiors ordered them to terminate their pregnancies. Chanel Dickerson, assistant chief of the MPD Youth and Family Engagement Bureau, explained at a recent community gathering at Unity Baptist Church of D.C. that she became pregnant during her time at the police academy and was told to get an abortion if she wanted to keep her job. |
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| Voice | | Op-ed: No, a Christian worldview isn’t a code word for ‘whiteness’ | | William Wolfe writes about pseudo-scholarship and the trend of scholars and authors claiming a Christian worldview is a blanket term for being racist, toxic, and nationalistic. Referencing a recent series of books on the subject, Wolfe says Christians must reject that line of thinking and "instead, build and better your Christian worldview. Constantly interrogate it to see if you are coming at issues from a biblical lens." |
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| World | | Archaeologists find rare gemstone seal near Western Wall | | Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered in eastern Jerusalem a 2,000-year-old precious gem and engraving that depicts the Balm of Gilead, a rare perfume used medicinally and which was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. "This is an important find, because it may be the first time that a seal has been discovered in the entire world with an engraving of the precious and famous plant,” archaeologist Eli Shukron said of the discovery. |
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