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🌐 What not to say when someone has God beaten out of them
December 09, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay What not to say when someone has God beaten out of them “If being hurt by church causes you to lose faith in God,” so the saying on a popular image macro goes, “then your faith was in people, not in God.” I’ve been seeing this sentiment more and more in the last couple of years; I’ve seen the exact phrasing of the aforementioned macro many times in multiple formats. I’ve seen a number of people...
🌎 Church leaders protest Trump’s rhetoric, ICE raids
December 09, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Church leaders protest Trump’s rhetoric, ICE raids Grossly dehumanizing and xenophobic. This is how the Rt. Rev. Craig Loya, Bishop of Minnesota, described President Trump’s December 2 comments, in which he called Somalis “garbage” four times and said “We don’t want ’em in our country”... ‘When the church door opens, it’s like a miracle’: the phone app that’s a key to Italy’s religious art...
🌐 A Eulogy For The Public Testimony of The Evangelical Church in America
December 09, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay A Eulogy For The Public Testimony of The Evangelical Church in America My wife, at times, talks about a funeral she went to as a child where the eulogy praised the virtues of a person so that she didn’t even recognize the description of that individual. I think we have all been to that kind of funeral where the cranky senior is portrayed as a model of love and gentleness. This isn’t going to be...
🌎 New nativity scenes, Bombing suspect, Furtick's Elevation College, Montreal sued by church, Samaritan's Purse plane hijacked
December 09, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations At first glance, the Nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Figures resembling Mary and Joseph stand near a baby Jesus, who rests in a manger. But this year, the details are decidedly.... 5 things to know about pipe bombing suspect Brian Cole Jr. Brian Cole...
🌐 Sodom, Babel, Pedophilia, Thanksgiving, Prayer, Holiday season, Violence
December 09, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Weekly Essay Digest These essays were shared this week from Faith on View.Don't miss a single one! Sodom and the sin of the Church Is the church and America guilty of the sin of Sodom? Wow! What a provocative question. Given the political culture in the USA right now, the mind automatically goes to issues like same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights. But that isn’t what I mean. Culturally, the church has...
🌎 The Constitution, Lost Reuben's painting, The Dog that hasn't barked, Great Democratic God...
Did you know FoV's owners are both creatives? Our artwork will rotate here. Sunday HighlightsDecember 09, 2025 First time reading? Subscribe here! This Week's Top Newsletter Articles #1 John Adams was right when he said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People.” President John Adams’s October 11, 1798 letter to the third division of the Militia Massachusetts is often quoted by conservative Christians as evidence that the United States was founded as a Christian nation....
🌎 Kevin Costner presents, Lutheran colleges, Hallow app, The holiday season, Knives Out, Stranger Things...
Did you know FoV's owners are both creatives? Our artwork will rotate here. Saturday HighlightsDecember 09, 2025 First time reading? Sign up here. Faith on View's weekly Top 10 #1 Kevin Costner to host holiday special highlighting the first Christmas (News) Award-winning actor Kevin Costner will host Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas, a new ABC holiday special airing December 9. The program, also streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, aims to share the biblical story of Jesus’... #2 Best...
🌎 Judge dismisses seminary from Roe lawsuit
December 09, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Judge dismisses seminary from Roe lawsuit A federal judge has permanently dismissed Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from the long-running defamation lawsuit filed by Jane Roe, while leaving the door open for a jury trial against former seminary President Paige Patterson.... Pope Leo XIV delivers peace message to 150,000 at Beirut Mass With a rainbow adorning the early morning sky,...
🌐 Gun Violence: Perfect love drives out fear
December 09, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay Gun Violence: Perfect love drives out fear We are all weary of the gun control discussions. This essay was first published after a school shooting that was the 40th school shooting of that year and the 26th mass shooting of that year. In response to that shooting, my wife shared a passionate article on Facebook, “Why Gun Lover’s Don’t Get to Grieve Another Massacre with Me.” In her post, she...
🌎 From vaccines to gender: How Christian ‘momfluencers’ are reshaping the American right
December 09, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS From vaccines to gender: How Christian ‘momfluencers’ are reshaping the American right Years before she became a homeschool influencer in western Arkansas, Taylor Moran was a liberal Dallas mom who voted for Bernie Sanders. But when the pandemic hit, Moran, now 34, was struck by the government’s inability to provide... Hong Kong church rallies after 60 congregants lose homes in deadly fire...
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