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"Evangelical" has become a loaded word — political shorthand to some, a source of shame to others. Now the organization that has carried the name since 1948 is considering dropping it. A member makes the case for why that would be a mistake.

Only an outright rejection of the insidious draft Conversion Practices Bill before Parliament will create a safer and more inclusive future.

Legislatures go to war over a locker room. Families split at Thanksgiving over a bathroom door. Meanwhile, almost no one is asking the one question with enough weight to actually end it. A look at what Ecclesiastes says about knowing which fight is worth having.

$18 billion is a lot of money, even for Meta. On Aug. 26, Meta agreed to settlements totaling up to roughly $18 billion to resolve lawsuits alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive platform features and other practices. Meta denied wrongdoing but agreed to significant changes aimed at protecting younger users. It sounds […] The post Meta’s $18 Billion Settlement Won’t Fix Your Kids, But You Can Thanks to Scripture appeared first on Charisma Magazine Online.

As 21st century Western Christians, we may be tempted to airbrush out of our walk with God anything that smacks of difficulties or hardship. But this is not how the Gospel spreads.

A county government in Minnesota tried to sue an election integrity group into silence for simply questioning whether felons should be allowed to vote. Now a federal appeals court has stepped in to protect their right to speak. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Minnesota cannot use its voter-interference law to […] The post Federal Court Slaps Down Minnesota’s Attempt to Silence Election Integrity Group appeared first on Charisma Magazine Online.

Officials with a regional body of the United Methodist Church are defending a decision to sue a Dallas megachurch.

A baby boy who’s caught in the middle of a legal dispute between his surrogate mother and the intended parents has survived the first of three emergency heart surgeries. At 20 weeks pregnant, surrogate mother McKenna West was told the baby boy she carried had hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Due to the diagnosis, the biological […] The post Baby Stuck in Legal Battle Between Bio-Parents and Surrogate Mother Survives Emergency Heart Surgery appeared first on Charisma Magazine Online.

A rare book dating back nearly 500 years has been stolen from a church in Suffolk after apparently being prised from a locked display case.

The previous Conservative government brought tens of thousands of Afghans into the country, many of them secretly. More have also come illegally on "small boats".

Organisers of the Big Church Festival have said they are “heartbroken” at the news a festivalgoer has died after a sign fell at the event in West Sussex.

Jews, Muslims, and Christians try to co-exist in the shadow of the Temple Mount–the most contested piece of real estate in the world