At its recent missions conference, the big Evangelical ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship hosted Michelle Higgins, a speaker from the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Why? According to a press release from InterVarsity:
Wheaton College is getting beat up pretty badly over its decision to fire tenured professor Larycia Hawkins for having stated that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. Here is Hawkins’s public statement about the matter. Excerpt:
Wheaton College cannot hold me to a different standard, a higher standard, than they hold every other employees to.
Wheaton College cannot scare me into walking away from the truth that all humans, Muslims, the vulnerable, the oppressed, are all my sisters and brothers.
Kristan T.
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the attacks on French satire mag Charlie Hebdo.
Last January, gunmen killed 12 people at the magazine's offices in an apparent act of "revenge" for the publication's satirical depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.
For those struggling to understand how society has devolved to a point where such atrocities are possible, even commonplace, here's Hebdo with one explanation:
In case there's any ambiguity there, that's God with a Kalashnikov. The text reads: "The assassin is still out there."
Pope Francis has warned that the “end of days begin now” and that the crisis involving Iran and Saudi Arabia represents a “tribulation on a timeline” that will “climax in the end of the world.” Addressing crowds gathered in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the celebration of Epiphany, the Pope took the opportunity to warn followers that the Middle East crisis will lead directly to the fulfilment of various Bible prophecies.