BLM Leaders....Hillsong Pastor Fired For Adultery....Twitter & Red China.....and more.

This past summer, the Hallmark Channel had promised to include “LGBT storylines” in its “Countdown to Christmas” and “Miracles of Christmas” programming. Now, it has rolled out a film in which one of the main characters is adopting a child with his homosexual lover.

....As Georgia becomes the nation’s political hotspot this winter before twin runoff elections Jan. 5 that will determine control of the Senate, faith-based organizing is heating up.

....The alleged perpetrator, Fernando De Jesus Lopez-Garcia, is a repeat immigration offender with a significant criminal history spanning back nearly 15 years.....

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the senior Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated by a hit squad outside of Tehran on Friday, was being "reserved" by the Iranian regime for the day that Iran's nuclear program would enter a new stage...

....Foreigners are prohibited from “illegal preaching among Chinese citizens, converting new believers, accepting religious donations from Chinese citizens,” or “carrying out religious education and training.”

....Envy reasons that is it better for all to thrive together than for one to thrive alone. But it goes further: if all cannot thrive together, then all should suffer together.

....Massachusetts, for one, has seen shrinkage to the tune of 37,000 kids — a 4% decrease. North Carolina’s enrollment is down by the same percentage, having begun the school year at a deficit of 5%.

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday rejected a petition from a Louisiana pastor who sought emergency relief from criminal charges he faced for holding services in violation of large-gathering restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Christian woman in New Jersey has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Starbucks, claiming the coffee chain fired her after she refused to wear an LGBT “Pride” T-shirt because of her religious beliefs.

An opinion piece published by a hard-line Iranian newspaper on Sunday suggested Iran should attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of the scientist who founded the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program in the early 2000s.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is taking aim at the legal root of law involving vaccinations, abortion rights, and birth control.

Police in the Muslim-majority archipelago of Indonesia were searching for suspected terrorists Saturday after the throats of three Christians were slit, another was beheaded and a Salvation Army post and Christians' homes were burned down on the island of Sulawesi.

.....Before the war the newspapers described a $5,000 crib made for a baby born into one of Europe's royal families. Five thousand dollars' worth of carving, metal work, studded jewels, and artistry all for a human child! Yet, when Jesus, sinless and stainless, born of a virgin by a marvelous miracle, came into the world, His parents had not even a plain cot on which He could lie. They laid Him in a manger, the feeding trough of animals.

...With every detail of the Christmas story we are familiar: Herod of Judah, the last of Judah’s kings; Israel, breathing her hope of Messiah’s advent; Bethlehem, small and white upon its mountain slopes where Heaven put out its brightest star...the angels; the shepherds; the Babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger; the gifts from the wise men of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  What is the meaning, we ask, of Christmas to the world?

The Puritans were neither 21st-century liberal democrats nor intolerant theocrats, but created republican political institutions critical to the Founding.

.....The confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett seemingly creates the needed “critical mass” of five Justices who are willing to express skepticism at the notion that “religions liberty” must yield to amoral non-secularism in the form of “individual liberty.”

John Harper was a Baptist minister who died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. After his death, there  was known the brave attitude  this man of God had while facing one of the most deadly civilian maritime disasters in history.

As Americans settle around the Thanksgiving table it may be a good time to remember the Mayflower compact and its role in our Democracy.

....As we approach this Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, please direct your attention to 1 Corinthians 15:57-58.

It’s in the text, so I know it is true, but it is still difficult to actually live out in my life without some miraculous work of the Spirit in me.

It’s the first time during the pandemic the high court has sided with churches and synagogues challenging the new rules on religious liberty grounds.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted an injunction Wednesday evening against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on religious services in a 5-4 decision that saw Justice Amy Coney Barrett with the conservative majority — and Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the liberal minority.

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in favor of a Catholic diocese and an Orthodox Jewish group, temporarily blocking New York’s COVID-19 restrictions on houses of worship.

Former Vice President Joe Biden twice mispronounced “Psalmist” during his 18-minute Thanksgiving message on Wednesday.

LGBT activist Jayne Ozanne has compared biblical Christians to “rapists” and “Holocaust deniers” for failing to preach the morality of homosexual sex.

....Social media is not the problem; it’s how we use it.

....With all this uncertainty, polarization and misinformation, feeling tired is understandable. But there are things one can do.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the decline in church attendance, even among regular churchgoers, a recent survey shows.

Catholics and Jews are suing the governor because he’s suppressing their right to exercise their religion.

Psalm 81 tells us to listen to God....

The accreditation of Christian colleges and schools has just been directly targeted by the nation’s most influential LGBTQ organization.....Contained within its pages are perhaps some of the most alarming demands that threaten religious liberty, and the mainstream media has given little to no attention to this dimension of the report.