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2025-12-23T20:04:40+00:00

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Why Dickens’ True Christmas Lesson Is Community, Not Charity

Last updated on: December 23, 2025 at 8:04 pm By Guest Contributor

By Kevin Nye When Ebeneezer Scrooge is first asked to give charity to the “hundreds of thousands [who] are in want of common comforts,” he asks, “Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses? The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” The charity collectors are confused, and after some back and forth, they suggest, “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” Scrooge replies in a most disturbing fashion: “If they would rather die,”... Read more

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2025-04-04T13:09:13+00:00

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Why People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religion

Last updated on: April 4, 2025 at 1:09 pm By Guest Contributor

By Cara Meredith A recent study from the Pew Research Center finds that around the world, many people are leaving their childhood religions. As the study shows, “a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised,” with Christianity and Buddhism experiencing the largest losses overall. While this is sometimes due to “religious switching,” a number of the adults surveyed identify with no religious affiliation whatsoever. According to findings from The Deconstruction Network,... Read more

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2025-01-16T20:05:12+00:00

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How Religion Is Reframing the LGBTQ Movement

Last updated on: January 16, 2025 at 8:05 pm By Guest Contributor

By Timothy Villareal The LGBTQ acronym is a philosophical antique. Cunning religious opponents of homosexuality have repurposed the social identity marker for their own anti-homosexuality ends, and some LGBTQ activists are all too happy to oblige. Last October, the Catholic LGBTQ support organization founded by the Jesuit priest, James Martin, held a conference in Rome to coincide with the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality. Martin and his organization, Outreach, want LGBTQ Catholics the world over to know they are the go-to... Read more

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2023-09-08T19:25:52+00:00

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Karl Marx: Communism as Alternative to Christianity?

Last updated on: September 8, 2023 at 7:25 pm By _Guest

By Robert Orlando In ideology, few figures have garnered as much attention and stirred controversy as Karl Marx’s writings on communism. While commonly regarded as a political and economic theory, a different perspective emerges when we scrutinize it through the lens of eschatology, the study of ultimate destinies. Interestingly, upon closer examination that avoids caricature, the structure of Marx’s ideas reflects a narrative not dissimilar to the eschatological records found in religious systems, particularly Christianity. Marx’s foundational concept of historical... Read more

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2022-09-06T14:59:46+00:00

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“Psalms For Black Lives” Hopes to Inspire Those In the Pursuit of Justice and Equity For All

Last updated on: September 6, 2022 at 2:59 pm By Guest Contributor

Psalms for Black Lives started as devotionals for a churchwide fasting experience led by the Revs Wilkes during the summer of 2020 when America was burning with anger over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous others. The Wilkes think the Psalms’ words discussed inspiration and truth to their community and the expanding number of people who work in the problematic areas of facing structural racism, pursuing justice, and creating a society that values Black lives fairly. Psalms... Read more

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2022-05-10T18:02:09+00:00

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How to Be Mentally Healthy (Like Jesus)

Last updated on: May 10, 2022 at 6:02 pm By Guest Contributor

By Jason North When I think of Jesus, my first thought isn’t “Man, he really had so much to teach us about mental health”! Prayer? Yep. Love? Peace? Compassion for others? Standing against injustice and religious bigotry? Also, yes. But mental health is more of a modern concept, created by psychology and therapy (both of which are healthy and necessary). Yet we know that Jesus was one of the most mentally healthy people – probably ever. He was always centered,... Read more

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2022-02-11T16:00:11+00:00

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Detaching from American Christianity

Last updated on: February 11, 2022 at 4:00 pm By Guest Contributor

Doesn’t it always go this way? You think you have everything figured out in this nutty ride of a life, and then another curve ball comes your way, and you realize: “Oh woo-wee-woo, I was way off”? The good old tale of repentance (rethink everything) and ego check, right? Well, let me tell you a little story of my journey from growing up in Mormonism, finding my way to Evangelicalism, then breaking free (so I thought) into Progressive Christianity. There... Read more

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2022-01-21T19:51:46+00:00

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Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Weddings?

Last updated on: January 21, 2022 at 7:51 pm By Guest Contributor

While our motive matters, so does the situation. Read more

2022-01-21T19:51:22+00:00

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Gender Dysphoria: Real or Imagined?

Last updated on: January 21, 2022 at 7:51 pm By Guest Contributor

I have searched through Scripture for some clarity on the issues of LGBTQ identity and found myself drawn to Jesus’ response to the Pharisees in Matthew 19. Read more

2022-01-21T19:51:08+00:00

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LGBTQ – Choice or Genetics?

Last updated on: January 21, 2022 at 7:51 pm By Guest Contributor

Many passages in the Bible deal with issues of gender and sexuality. Read more

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