Category: Culture
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Christian comedian break silence 8 months after sexual misconduct scandal
After an eight month hiatus from the public eye, popular millennial Christian comedian broke his silence through social media on Wednesday. Last November, Charisma News broke a story detailing numerous allegations of sexual misconduct carried out by Crist. Before the sexual misconduct scandal, Crist had amassed millions of followers online, had a popular standup tour,…
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What wisdom has to do with struggles
It’s In the opening chapter of the Letter of James, in talking about the trials we face, James says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). What does wisdom have to do with trials? God gives…
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Megachurches, televangelists among churches who received loan money
American Catholic Churches received roughly $1.4 billion dollars in government bailout money as part of . Megachurches like Chicago’s Willow Creek and Harvest Bible Chapel, First Baptist Church of Dallas, and Life.church from Oklahoma all received millions of dollars. Televangelists like Joyce Meyer, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart also received federal money. Theologically, I have…
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New York Times blames churches for being “major source” of Covid cases
The New York Times ran an article today under the headline: “Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.” If you had just read the headline, that sounds like a pretty severe indictment. The article goes on to say that more than 650 cases of Coronavirus have been linked…
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The virtue signal of all virtue signals: liberals compare themselves to heroes of all past generations
Last week, legal scholar and philosopher Robert George had a thought-provoking series of Tweets on how people today would have responded to historical events had they lived through them. George says: “I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what?…
Josh Benner 