Sunday, June 01, 2025

Interesting Links from June 2025

 

Commencement Address Harvard Needs | National Review

 

Pastoral Meanderings: As Valpo Turns. . .

 

The Vanishing Light: Why Syria’s Christian Golden Age Is Gone Forever - The Stream

 

U. Nebraska student’s graduation project mocks Catholic Mass with drag performance | The College Fix

 

Inside Republicans’ moral minority | WORLD


June 2

 

Catholics Dating Non-Catholics | Catholic Answers Magazine

 

Evangelicals After Obergefell: 10 Years of Living on the Wrong Side of History

 

Redeemed Zoomer and Gavin Ortlund Debate Church Splits, Merits of Evangelicalism - Juicy Ecumenism

 

This Is Your Priest on Drugs | The New Yorker

 

How our schools and workplaces push early parenthood out of reach | Vox

 

Donald Trump’s New Reality Show: Let’s Make a Deal and Get Rich

 

The Hypocrisy of Bruce Springsteen - The American Conservative

 

Opinion | The Trump administration is the most progressive in U.S. history - The Washington Post


June 3

 

I can tell you that Seattle has personally wrecked me

 

To the Single Lady at the Wedding – Rachel Whisman

 

Priestly predicament: Catholics sue over abuse reporting law | WORLD

 

President Trump imposes tariffs on indulgences from the Holy See (a satire)

 

After a decade of controversy, clergy psychedelic study is published

 

The Rise and Fall of Mark Driscoll's Critics - by JD Hall

 

This is not a parody: ELCA Lutheran synod hosts Queer Confirmation retreat for fifth-graders - EXPOSING THE ELCA

 

Sean Feucht’s Former Ministry Leaders Set Up Whistleblower Website, Accuse Him Of ‘Abuse, Fraud, Embezzlement’

 

‘Christianity Today’ Under Fire For Using LGBTQ-Affirming Sponsor in Anti-Mark Driscoll Podcast


June 4

 

Liturgical Stooges - Crisis Magazine

 

Sean Feucht accused of financial, spiritual, moral misconduct | Church & Ministries

 

N.T. Wright Says Jesus’ Bodily Resurrection Is An Optional Christian Belief, Not Needed For Salvation (Wright VERY wrong on this)

 

Democrats Are The Party Of Mentally Unstable Nutjobs

 

Sermons with Benefits - Christianity Today


June 5

 

Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk defend Glen Greenwald after sexually | U.S. (other professing political conservatives did so also)

 

Array of rainbows and religions marks WorldPride interfaith service in DC (at Unitarian church – Unitarianism itself is false doctrine – sad that this event happened)

 

Time to Smash the ‘Gynocracy’ Eric Conn Claims - Juicy Ecumenism

 

UCC Rainbow Priest Compares Jesus Raising Lazarus From the Dead to Queers “Coming Out of the Closet”

 

CCM Headliner Michael Tait Accused of Grooming & Sexual Assault

 

Gays Ruined 'Pride' With Accepting And Engaging In Public Sex (the D.C. columnist for The Federalist, Eddie Scarry, says that he is gay, something he also said in his book Liberal Misery, and says that public sex is bad, but not private gay sex?  The Federalist is run by professing conservative Missouri Synod Lutherans.)

 

Who was Harvey Milk? | WORLD


June 6

 

Trump's embrace of homosexual GOP candidates alienating social conservatives - LifeSite

 

Biden's press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre chosen as NYC Pride grand marshal - CBS News

 

Newsboys respond to allegations against Michael Tait | Entertainment

 

Christian musician Michael Tait accused of sexual abuse, grooming

 

Can the Pride Flag Celebrate Other Deadly Sins, or Only Lust? - The Stream

 

Christian Mission Sued for Hiring Christians - Yes, Really

 

Pam Bondi Accused of 'Serious Misconduct' in Florida Bar Complaint - Newsweek

 

Facing a Precarious Future in Hong Kong - Christianity Today

 

Why Musk Hit a Nerve by Saying Trump Is in the Epstein Files


June 8

 

No, the children of divorce are not ‘fine’

 

Evangelical Fault Lines Revealed in South Korean Election - Christianity Today (it is MORE THAN OKAY to have “anti-Communist rhetoric,” – and action!--especially in the Korean situation)

 

Pastoral Meanderings: What does it matter?


June 10

 

25% of Catholic, Mainline Pastors firmly believe in Adam and Eve | U.S.

 

Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed: Collapsing Faster Than A Meringue Pie Left in the Sun

 

Reckless abuse of Medicaid: Who's telling the truth?

 

Patricia Heaton sounds alarm on realty of spiritual warfare | Entertainment

 

ABC News' Terry Moran Should Be Fired, Not Suspended (he was on Appleton, Wisconsin-based Lawrence University’s student newspaper staff in 1981)

 

ELCA Lutherans elect 9th homosexual bishop - EXPOSING THE ELCA

 

Craig Dykstra, Lilly Endowment executive who supported congregational vitality, dies at 78

 

In the Bible, gender is not binary | The Christian Century (for information purposes)

 

Episcopalians Double Down on Pride Month - Juicy Ecumenism

 

Pastoral Meanderings: A small part of the bigger thing. . .

 

Should Christians Practice Surrogacy?

 

Rick Warren speaks to Catholics, says Jesus' prayer 'unanswered' | Church & Ministries