In order to meet its current needs and live in the future it has been anticipating, the small, rural Diocese of Eastern Oregon announced on February 1 that it hopes to continue with a part-time assisting bishop instead of calling a new diocesan.
A cost-cutting measure that may foreshadow the future of a number of dioceses in the Episcopal Church.Evangelical supporters silent — again — as Trump rewrites Ukrainian history
Evangelical leaders did not jump to President Donald Trump’s defense when he declared Feb. 19 Ukraine provoked Russia’s invasion and ought to accede to Vladimir Putin. His most ardent evangelical supporters were mysteriously silent, and evangelical leaders who have called him out before said this claim was outrageous even for Trump.
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You need to know this: what is occurring in Ukraine is a direct continuation of an imperial tendency that has characterized Russian rule for centuries. From tsars to commissars and the KGB thugocracy of Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has consistently aimed for one goal: the subjugation of Ukraine as a lesser province within a broader Russian empire. The strategies have changed—sometimes cloaked in Orthodox piety, other times in Marxist language, and now using the deceptive terms of “denazification” and “protection of Russian speakers”—yet the aim remains the same. What has varied is the extent of Western naivetĂ© in failing to see it for what it truly is.
Trump did not understand Pearl Harbor, new book reveals: ‘What’s this all about?’
Donald Trump barely knew of Pearl Harbor, was ignorant about the basics of geography and complained the US constitution was like reading “a foreign language”, a new book reveals. A Very Stable Genius, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, is the latest book detailing the Trump administration’s tumultuous three years in the White House. Named after Mr Trump’s self-declared intellectual brilliance, the book, excerpts of which have been published by The Washington Post, reveals his litany of missteps and willingness to break long-standing legal and ethical norms since becoming president in 2017.
Latino Christian National Network plans next steps to help immigrants after lawsuit
33 Christian Reformed ministers take oath to a rival denomination as church split deepens
The ministers, mostly from Grand Rapids, are no longer willing to abide the denomination’s increasingly rigid stance on sexuality.
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