Transgender Woman Sues Waxing Spa After Muslim Employee Declined Service for Religious Reasons
Carruthers, president and CEO of Mad Wax Windsor Camp Inc., released a statement last week, confirming he had received the complaint and that he respects the religious beliefs of his employees.
The professional hair removal company declined service, noting that the staffer who does male hair removal was on sick leave while the only other staffer who did body waxes was a Muslim woman who refused physical contact with any males she was not related to. The unnamed transgender woman is suing the company for $50,000... Continue Reading
Twelve Tips for Parenting in the Digital Age
To be honest, I don’t know which sin is worse: the arrogance of speaking in generalities about an entire generation, or the sin of ignoring data-trends.
iGen is a recent label given to those born between 1995 and 2012. It is 74 million Americans, or 24% of the population, and the most diverse generation in American history. It is also the most digitally connected and smartphone-addicted generation. iGen’ers were born after the Internet was commercialized in 1995. They have no pre-Internet memories.... Continue Reading
Ireland Votes To Overturn Its Abortion Ban, ‘Culmination Of A Quiet Revolution,’ Prime Minister Says
Election officials reported that 66.4 percent voted to overturn Ireland’s abortion ban and 33.6 percent opposed the measure.
Social change in Ireland has been seismic. In the 1990s, homosexual activity was criminal here. Divorce was forbidden. It was still difficult to buy a condom, the sale of which was outlawed until 1985. Within a generation, all of that has changed, bringing the majority-Catholic nation of about 4.8 million people into line with the... Continue Reading
Institutional Betrayal: Secret Ingredient to PTSD
Institutions that don’t make efforts to prevent abuse within their community betray their members who believed they would be protected.
When a person trusts that a system designed to defend, respond, protect, or seek justice will do its job after an interpersonal trauma, and when that system either chooses not to respond (omission) or worse, chooses to lay blame at the feet of the victim (commission), institutional betrayal occurs. We live in the world where human... Continue Reading
Pro-lifers Celebrate The Death Of California’s Euthanasia Law
Judge overturns the bill after ruling lawmakers passed it illegally.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra vowed to appeal the ruling, and Snyder anticipates a hard—but worthwhile—fight. She said the legalization of assisted suicide doesn’t affect just the terminally ill or those in great physical pain: “This is about how it will affect all patients, and ultimately what it does to a society when you say... Continue Reading
Indonesian Churches Blasted by Family of Suicide Bombers
Christians outraged at “heinous and gory” terrorist attacks that killed and injured dozens of worshipers Sunday morning.
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church (GKI), Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church, and Santa Maria Tak Bercela Catholic Church—all in Surabaya, the second-largest city in the island-chain nation—suffered bombings carried out by six members of the same family, who are believed to be affiliated with Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an Indonesian terrorist cell aligned with ISIS. Suicide bombers launched... Continue Reading
A Biblical View of the Embassy Move to Jerusalem
This move of the US embassy, for many Christians, marks a step closer to the fulfillment of those promises and Christ’s return.
Moving the embassy may or may not be a great political move. I’m not qualified to speak into that. But I would like to press on Christians supporting this move purely from a redemptive-historical (God’s plan of redemption over history) point of view. God has one plan for one group of people, the church. ... Continue Reading
If Politics Undermines Theology, Why Is Your Theological Affirmation So Political?
The church has one purpose, the state another. And if you mix the two, politics could well undermine theology.
When “political leadership” undermines the government, then the church must intervene and become the state’s conscience. There goes separation of church and government. And to avoid the call to keep politics and theology distinct, the authors invoke not the Bible but Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet another evangelical statement is seeking signatures. Reclaiming Jesus is a... Continue Reading
Why “Liberalism” Needs Natural Law
There is an ambiguity marking many of these sallies against liberalism (itself a term that’s invested with often-contradictory meanings).
Do today’s anti-liberals believe that the core problem is an ideology of radical autonomy, one that preaches liberation in the name of “tolerance-respect-diversity” while simultaneously shoving unscientific gobbledygook like gender theory down our throats? Or, do they also regard what I’ll call “liberal institutions” as antithetical to the good life? To put it more crudely: are particular... Continue Reading
Why Winning the Lottery Is Dangerous
Winning the lottery has been described as a “curse.”
According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, 70% of those who receive large cash windfalls lose them within just a few years. Winning a large amount of money can be physically, emotionally and behaviorally dangerous because money, at it’s core, can be spiritually dangerous. Not long ago, a single ticketholder won the Pennsylvania Powerball jackpot valued at 456.7 million... Continue Reading
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