As more and more Christian leaders publicly leave the faith, a pastor has weighed in on the “deconstruction” movement and shared how the Church can best love those struggling with their doubt.
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In the age of social media, we’re often made hyper-aware of the machinations of the faith journeys of complete strangers, some famous and others not. While some of that is certainly good, it can also be a bit unnerving, particularly when a once-esteemed believer abandons his or her Christian convictions.
Covered up and boxed in a storage vault in the town of Enniskillen, two historic oil paintings gathered dust. King William III commissioned the portraits of himself and Queen Mary after he routed Catholic forces in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, a turning point in Irish history that established Protestant ascendance. Unionists revere King Billy, also known as William of Orange, as a hero who saved their settler ancestors. The portraits used to.
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Skillet frontman John Cooper has issued a blistering condemnation of âwoke ideologyâ and moral relativism he warned has seeped into the Church, urging Christians to be âextremely vigilant about the Word of Godâ to combat such false doctrine.Â
During a recent episode of Abby Johnsonâs hit podcast, Politely Rude, Cooper revealed that a few years ago, he was shocked to find that people didnât believe in absolute truth anymore.
âI didn t even know that would be a possibility,â he said. âI studied postmodernism in college, but I never thought that anyone would actually build a society upon it because it s so untenable.â