(Los Angeles Times) — A megachurch that has defied Los Angeles County’s pandemic health orders was temporarily barred from holding Sunday worship services indoors, under a judge’s ruling Thursday. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff sided with public health officials, who took legal action last month to enforce health orders against Grace Community Church, […]
A video posted to social media shows writer and activist Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford, a self-described “cultural producer, multidisciplinary artist, nonbinary shapeshifter, hood feminist, and data futurist” speaking to a room of predominantly white attendees and claiming that “all white people are racists” and will always be so, being “born into not being human.” “All white people […]
JERUSALEM — Stone capitals and window frames from a “royal estate” dating sometime between the reign of King Hezekiah and King Josiah (600-700 B.C.) were recently unearthed during an excavation on the Armon Hanatziv (Commissioner’s Palace) Promenade, south of Old City Jerusalem. “A rare, impressive, and very special collection of several dozen adorned architectural stone artifacts, […]
Commenting on the gender reveal party in California that resulted in a 10K+ acre wildfire, Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah opined this week that celebrating a child’s biological sex is becoming “outdated” and that such parties should only happen when the child is older and “knows their actual gender.” “[C]elebrating a baby’s genitalia is starting […]
LOS ANGELES — In a recent interview with a local radio station, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Los Angeles chapter co-founder Melina Abdullah explained that “meetings and protests begin with the pouring of libation” and the utterance of the names of the dead. She said that the practices are generally not allowed to be filmed in […]
ROME — Jorge Bergoglio, also known as Pope Francis, tweeted a prayer on Saturday to Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa, asking her to pray that acts of charity in the world will be motivated by love. Bojaxhiu died in 1997 and was declared a venerated saint by Bergoglio in 2016 for purportedly bringing about miracles after […]
COSTA MESA, Calif. — The group Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) has sent a letter to the Orange County Board of Education to express objection to proposed changes to its prayer policy — and to the presentation of prayers at public meetings altogether. A proposed amendment to the current invocation policy […]
HIDDENITE, N.C. — A public school in North Carolina cut two Bible verses out of the back cover of planners donated by a local church before giving them to students out of concern that it would be considered a form of religious indoctrination. According to reports, Sulfur Springs Baptist Church contacted East Alexander Middle School over […]
Blogger and author Jen Hatmaker, who came out in favor of homosexuality in 2016 and revealed that one of her daughters is lesbian for this year’s Pride Month, has now announced that she and her husband are ending their marriage. “I don’t know how to say this, and I still cannot believe I am even […]
Season three of “Star Trek: Discovery” on CBS All Access will introduce the franchise’s first “transgender” and “non-binary” characters in the history of the science fiction drama. “Star Trek has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities because it believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of […]