Clapham Sect News Today

(This month, I am taking a short break from my megachurch visits series.) Over at CT, global managing editor Morgan Lee has a new article with a curious

Values such as tolerance, charity and human rights are often considered secular beliefs of the modern world, independent from any religion, especially the Christian faith that once infused the countries where these values were born.

“God Almighty has set before me two great objects … the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.”

(RNS) — It's a diabolical end-run around laws that attempt to respect God’s created order.

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True Christianity, rooted in the teachings of an orthodox biblical worldview, has historically been a force for tremendous good, contributing positively to human civilization and society on numerous levels.

There’s a small diner downtown where I live. They make the best hot dogs. I bellied up to the bar in front of the grill, waiting for my order while the short-order cook slaved away. A gentile elderly lady arrived and sat on the stool next to me. She ordered the lunch special. She was friendly and initiated conversation, asking me what line of work I was in.

To preserve a rules-based global order from autocracy, free societies must restore their faith in their moral values.

In the UK, the former PM said China will be encouraged to seize Taiwan unless the West fully backs Ukraine, step up defence spending, and rekindles self-belief.

Church of England, English national church that traces its history back to the arrival of Christianity in Britain during the 2nd century. It has been the original church of the Anglican Communion since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. As the successor of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval English church, it has valued and preserved much of the traditional framework of medieval Roman Catholicism in church government, liturgy, and customs, while it also has usually held the fundamentals of Refo...