...All of the churches noted in these categories have either closed or announced their intentions to close. Thankfully, some of them generously gave their sites to healthier churches. We hope to follow their adoption progress closely. 

Last week, Snopes — a fact-checking website that was used by Facebook for several years to combat what the platform dubbed misinformation — published an article describing creationism as “a conspiracy theory.”

The province of British Columbia has announced that they are extending their pandemic restrictions “indefinitely,” with all churches prohibited from gathering for services under threats of crushing fines and jail time.

Everyone knows about the Jewish-Muslim tussle over claims to rule Jerusalem, but there's another, less public, battle over the authority over the holy edifices in the city.

....Sometimes it can be helpful to delineate some of the unhelpful or sinful motivations that can sabotage a ministry.  It is not possible to avoid every negative motive all the time, but we must beware lest any of these start to fester within and then characterise our ministry.

Google has quietly escalated censorship of its market-dominating search engine, adding a range of new topics where human moderates are allowed to manually penalize websites, suppressing them in search results.

The most effective avenues to preserve life still remain.

The global pandemic has resulted in near-global panic. Medical facilities, markets, educational institutions, and churches, all enormously experience the impact. How is the Christian to respond to the Corona-crisis? Does God’s Word provide an answer to the questions people are asking today?

An association of churches and Christian clergy has demanded an investigation after unidentified arsonists destroyed five churches and threw human feces onto the buildings in one village in western Kenya, according to reports.

...So Congress, despite the insistence of Trump’s opponents, lacks the power to impeach someone who is no longer a federal official. And the Constitution also prohibits Congress from enacting “ex post facto law.”

President Joe Biden campaigned on promises to govern by “consensus.” He devoted his Inaugural Address to “unity.” Yet he has issued more executive orders and actions in the first three weeks of his presidency than any president in U.S. history.

The U.S. Supreme Court has solidified its support for religious freedom, delivering a blow last Friday night against arbitrary attempts by California's Governor Gavin Newsom to prevent people of faith from gathering indoors to worship.

...Even if athletes have long been superstitious, their newfound willingness to name their various mystical practices slots into a broader cultural moment. In recent years, we’ve seen a real uptick in idioms utilizing “mood,” “energy,” and “vibes”; Enya is having a moment; young people are obsessed with astrology, and crystal sales have seen an uptick.

The British coronavirus strain is doubling in the U.S. every 10 days, according to a study released Sunday on the medRxiv server.