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🌎 Skillet's John Cooper talks legalism, absolute truth and ‘demonic’ label on new Christmas song
December 11, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Skillet's John Cooper talks legalism, absolute truth and ‘demonic’ label on new Christmas song When a small, yet vocal group of critics labeled Skillet’s new Christmas single, a rock 'n’ roll version of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” as “demonic,” frontman John Cooper didn’t react defensively. Instead, he laughed. Because, in his words.... Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few...
🌐 When the Holy Spirit Convicts Believers of Sin: A Journey Back to Hackensack
December 11, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay When the Holy Spirit Convicts Believers of Sin: A Journey Back to Hackensack I grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. I graduated from Hackensack High in 1971, got my B.A. from Cornell University in 1975, a master’s in magazine journalism from Syracuse University in 1976, and landed a job as a sports reporter for the daily newspaper of Cortland, New York, in 1977. So on the...
🌎 Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era
December 11, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms. Last week, archaeologists finished... Decline of religion remains stalled, says new Pew report. But there's no...
🕊️ When Right Belief Isn’t Enough (Romans 12:2)
December 11, 2025 Daily Reflections for a Life of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Welcome to Whispers of Grace. As an artist and scholar of religion, I hope to bring something unique and worthwhile. These reflections, devotions, or whatever you choose to call them, are personal. These are my thoughts as I struggle to live in the same world and serve the same God as you. I pray that they bring value when you read them, as they do to me when I write them. -Rondall Reynoso Read more...
🌐 What not to say when someone has God beaten out of them
December 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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....
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