| 09/06/2022 | | Presented by Edifi |
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| | Pornhub booted off Instagram after complaints from anti-sexual exploitation group | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Tuesday, September 6, and today's headlines include the removal of Pornhub from social media platform Instagram, a survey exploring church growth, and One Million Moms' calls for the cancellation of Disney's new FX series "Little Demon." | | Pornhub's Instagram account has been suspended for violating the social media platform's "community standards given the increasing reports of Pornhub hosting child sexual abuse material, sex trafficking, filmed rape, and non-consensual videos and images," National Center on Sexual Exploitation CEO Dawn Hawkins announced in a statement shared with The Christian Post. The account, which had more than 13 million followers and over 6,200 posts, did not share pornographic content but promoted pornography and encouraged followers to become pornography performers. Hawkins—who noted that Pornhub had a blue verification check despite it encouraging children to pursue a career in the pornography industry and ongoing accusations of illegal activity—praised the Meta-owned platform for "courageously choosing to stop partnering with Pornhub" and called on other companies to follow suit. NCOSE partnered with similar nonprofit advocacy groups in 2019 on the #WakeUpInstagram campaign, which called on the social media giant to stop facilitating child sexual abuse and grooming. Read more. | | P.S. Get rewarded for sharing our newsletters! We are excited to announce the CP referral program—the more you share, the more you earn. Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to get started today! |
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| Survey explores growth trajectory of church plants | | A survey from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) has revealed that churches that expect to multiply at least 10 times are growing nearly 10 times as quickly as those that don't expect to multiply. The data also suggests that some non-growing churches spent more at launch than growing churches. The survey, which questioned more than 2,700 participants from more than 2,300 church planters/founding pastors and nearly 400 multisite or campus directors, also found that 83% of growing churches with 500-plus in weekly attendance in 2022 paid their pastors full time at launch, compared to 55% of growing churches with 50-100 attendees and 52% of growing churches with 0-50 in attendance. Sixty percent of non-growing churches with 0-100 members reported paying their pastors full time since launch. Read more. | | 7 facts about incoming UK Prime Minister Liz Truss | | Mary Elizabeth Truss has been elected prime minister of the United Kingdom, defeating Rishi Sunak, a former chief secretary of the Treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer, by 57.4% to 42.6%. Truss, who has been a vocal opponent of "woke" identity politics, is the third woman to hold the job of British prime minister. To learn seven interesting facts about the Conservative Party leader, click here. | | Some parents complain following student baptisms | | Officials at Northwood Temple Academy, a private Christian school in North Carolina, have come under fire from some parents after more than 100 middle and high school students were baptized at the school without parental consent. Northwood Head of School Renee McLamb told The Christian Post that it did not plan on baptizing so many students, explaining they were responding to what they saw as a "move of God." Not all parents were happy with the baptisms, however, with one unidentified parent stating, "They should have corralled the kids in the back of the church, another room—somewhere—and said, 'We understand your desire to get this done. We'd love for your families to be here and present with you.'" Read more. |
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| What I mean when I speak of the political seduction of the Church | | In his latest editorial, Dr. Michael Brown discusses his new book, The Political Seduction of the Church: How Millions of American Christians Have Confused Politics with the Gospel, and the concept of political seduction. "I’m referring to the unhealthy marriage of politics and the Gospel. I’m speaking about the Church becoming an appendage to a political party. I’m talking about God’s people getting consumed with election fever," Brown writes. Read more. | | How sex education led to the gender identity movement | | Author Steve Baldwin, a former California State Assemblyman and former Executive Director of the Council for National Policy and Young Americans for Freedom, traces the gender identity movement to the rise of sex education in public schools in the 1950s and 1960s. Pointing to Alfred Kinsey and his Kinsey Institute, Baldwin asserts, "They knew that if they were to be successful in undermining America’s founding Christian culture, they need to get to the kids. Indeed, it is quite clear that the sex education movement was specifically created to radically change America’s culture and destroy it they did. Any parents who tried to stop them were smeared as backwoods hicks." Read more. |
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| 4 Popular Christian Celebs Whose Faith in Jesus Will Inspire You | | Do you want to hear people like Kirk Cameron, Colton Dixon, and Tauren Wells candidly discuss their faith, lives, and careers? You’ve come to the right place. | | "The Crossmap Podcast," hosted by Crossmap managing editor Chris Carpenter, features inspiring heart-to-heart conversations with Christian newsmakers of the day, including authors, experts, pastors, and entertainers on topics that are good for the entire family while honoring your faith-based values. Read more. | | |
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| Christian man talks reestablishing walk with Christ following memory loss | | When Joey Gaines tries to remember the first 32 years of his life, his mind draws a complete blank. Gaines, who had suffered from around 800 seizures by his early 30s, endured a risky brain surgery to potentially cure his epilepsy—losing all past and present memories to avoid facing an inevitable death from epilepsy. In an interview with The Christian Post, Gaines shared how he does not remember making the decision to undergo the procedure but knows it was God's grace that led him to go under the knife. "Weeks after the surgery, one of my doctors told me: 'You don't remember who you once were. But, I'm going to tell you the change. It was like you were living in a dark room of torment, and now, you're walking in the light of freedom.'" Read more. |
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| Mrs. Universe Tori Hope Petersen talks foster care | | Mrs. Universe Tori Hope Petersen, a former foster child, is now a Christian foster youth advocate who is encouraging adults to answer the call to provide a loving home to children in desperate need of stability. Petersen's memoir on the topic, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care, is available for pre-order and will be released on Oct. 15. In an interview with The Christian Post, Petersen shared how she wrote the book to give hope to children in the foster care system, as well as adults who grew up in foster care. "I wanted them to know that even if no one wanted them in their home, that God made a room for them in a Kingdom—and that trumps people kicking you out," she explained. Read more. | | One Million Moms issues ‘urgent warning’ over Disney’s FX series ‘Little Demon’ | | Disney's new FX series "Little Demon" features a woman who is impregnated by Satan and gives birth to an Antichrist daughter. The show features graphic violence and nudity. In response, One Million Moms has issued an "urgent warning" to parents in an online petition that is calling on The Walt Disney Company to "cancel this dark show immediately." The petition, which had more than 20,000 signatures as of Monday morning, writes that the "show makes light of hell and the dangers of the demonic realm." Read more. | | | | | | | | Thank you for spending part of your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow! -- CP Editors |
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