Image:  Despite the event ultimately coming to a structured close, Baldwin said "hardly a day has gone by" that she hasn't heard something about how the outpouring reached people across the globe. "It's really exciting," she said. "And so it's been many stories from people all over connecting to share their testimony." The Outpouring Continues As for the students Baldwin works with, she said it's been powerful to see the "spirit of revival" they continue carrying with them and what God is doing in their lives because of it. Undoubtedly, the Asbury outpouring immediately had a profound ..read more

Image:  The review is on the front page of the newspapers today. The BBC is platforming trans-sceptical experts -- and not just so they can be hissed at live on air. Keir Starmer's ever-opportunistic Labour Party is saying it agrees with everything in the report. Of course it's far too early to be declaring victory, and far too late for many of the victims caught up in this to celebrate, but something monumental happened today. The unsayable has become sayable, on gender at least. The review, produced by top paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass over four years, is a stunning piece of work: a ..read more

Image:  A first hearing on those four resolutions is scheduled with the bishops' and deputies' committees on Social Justice & International Policy. Additional hearings are likely in the coming weeks as the parallel committees deliberate on whether to recommend the resolutions for approval by the House of Bishops and House of Deputies when they meet June 23-28 in Louisville, Kentucky. Three of the apartheid resolutions were proposed originally for consideration by the 80th General Convention in 2022 but were deferred until this year's meeting. A010, for example, would acknowledge t ..read more

Image:  Why? The most common reason given for population decline is the debt crisis: people cannot afford children. However, a temporary economic disturbance cannot explain the long-term trend. There are a number of other reasons but the underlying one is that increasingly marriage and family formation is discincentivised in our society and culture. We are used to the term 'Go woke, go broke'; perhaps we should replace it with 'Go woke, go vanish'. Our governments see us primarily as units of production and have no discernible interest in helping straight married couples produce child ..read more

Image:  It is impossible to overestimate the contributions of Thomas Cranmer for defining the theology and worship of the newly formed Church of England. He not only wrote the Book of Common Prayer, but he also wrote Anglican's confession (the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion), the Ordinal (ordination services for bishops, priests and deacons), and four of the first book of 12 Homilies. Like many theologians at the time of the Reformation, Cranmer grew and evolved in his sacramental theology from Roman Catholic transubstantiation, with a brief stop into Lutheranism before ending with ..read more

Image:  Bishop Akanjuna said this during a press conference at his residence of his Diocesan headquarters on Rugarama Hill in the northern division of Kabale Municipality. This declaration comes amidst rumors circulating suggesting a potential collaboration or association, which prompted the Bishop to provide clarity on the matter and assert the autonomy of the Diocese of Kigezi within the Anglican Communion. Bishop Akanjuna addressed the growing speculation surrounding any affiliations with the Reformed Anglican Church, stating firmly that the Diocese of Kigezi and others in the coun ..read more

Image:  The author of Hebrews evinces amazing skill in relating the gospel power and potential in the prophetic and temple tradition to Jesus Christ the God pledged Redeemer of all who look to him in trust. The features of the former covenant are the insignia of the Coming One and the apostolic teaching and preaching will match symbol to reality. Centuries of type, token and teaching would accumulate until its clear revelation in the authority, truth and loveliness of the God-man. As is well recognized the Word made flesh is the self-expression of God. All truth and sound knowledge co ..read more

Image:  He ably supported Copernican science, and was a friend and endorser of Galileo. He was also acquainted with Calvin's successor in Geneva, Theodore Beza. His chief influences as a believer were Holy Scripture and Augustine, and he agreed with the fundamental theological structure of the Reformation without a personal departure from a potential re-formed Catholicism. The simplicity of the early church and the Reformers' strength of conviction as to the doctrines of grace propounded by Luther and Calvin were the clear desire of his holy heart for Venice with freedom for other for ..read more

Image:  The book made Hays a darling among conservative evangelical Christians who opposed LGBTQ acceptance in their churches and the broader culture and frequently cited Hays' work in debates. But the 75-year-old Hayes, since retired, now admits that his moral vision wasn't exactly 20/20 when it came to this issue in 1996, and he's ready to set the record straight. In a book scheduled to be released in September, "The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story," written with his son, Christopher B. Hays, the elder Hays makes an about-face that is already causing an ..read more

Image:  The religious elites of his day also came, but he was vitriolic in his denunciation of their hypocrisy. 'You brood of vipers', he railed, but fortunately for him there were no Hate Speech laws in those days otherwise he would undoubtedly have been prosecuted. Nevertheless he spoke fearlessly against King Herod, and this led to his downfall. Herod had him arrested and although he was clearly challenged by John's preaching the king was tricked during a drunken party by his wife and Salome, his stepdaughter, into having him beheaded, a story depicted by many artists. The question ..read more