Thomas Buchanan. (YouTube)
DUP MLA Thomas Buchanan is facing criticism after he shared a Facebook post from an “ex-gay” Oklahoma woman who said she turned away from “sinfulness”.
The original post was shared by Allison Nunley and included two photos of herself: one from when she openly gay and another more recent snap showing her with long hair and wearing more conservative clothes.
In the post, Nunley decried the fact that she “lived a homosexual lifestyle for several years” and attended Pride parades.
“I said things like: ‘I was born this way,’ ‘God is love,’ ‘He knows my heart’ and ‘Who are you to judge?’ Nunley wrote.
Vatican City, Jun 9, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged busy Catholics to say the “Jesus Prayer” throughout the day.
Speaking at the general audience June 9, the pope recommended the short prayer at the heart of Eastern Christianity’s mystical tradition.
/ Vatican Media.
Referring to the 19th-century Russian spiritual classic “The Way of a Pilgrim,” he said: “The spiritual journey of the Russian pilgrim begins when he comes across a phrase of St. Paul in the First Letter to the Thessalonians: ‘Pray constantly, always and for everything give thanks’ (5:17-18).”
“The Apostle’s words struck the man and he wondered how it was possible to pray without interruption, given that our lives are fragmented into so many different moments, which do not always make concentration possible.”
As I wrote in Part I of this series, I believe the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is in a
kairos season. The crises and challenges we face have also brought an âopportune timeâ for God to do a special work in the church.
Wallace Henley, former Senior Associate Pastor of 2nd Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Scott Belin
The rejection of the institutionalism I wrote about in Part I does not mean abandoning order and surrendering to chaos but focusing on the biblically described âorganizationâ of a church that is stable yet energetically moving forward in incarnational ministry (see, for example, I Corinthians 14). âOrganization,â after all, is related to âorganismâ.
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