OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: APPEAL TO CAESAR
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his commentary on Acts, looks at how Paul’s “appeal to Caesar” came about in chapter 25…
Jailed Algerian Christian receives partial presidential pardon
World Watch Monitor A Christian imprisoned for three years for “insulting Islam and the prophet Muhammad” in his social media posts has received a partial presidential pardon. Slimane Bouhafs, who converted to Christianity from Islam in 1997, was arrested almost a year ago on 31st July, 2016, for posting a message on social media about the light of […]
Updated: ‘The Message’ author Eugene Peterson regrets saying he would officiate a same-sex wedding
Eugene Peterson, author of The Message, has said he regrets saying that he would officiate at a same-sex wedding if asked to do by a gay couple who were “Christians of good faith”. Religion News Service columnist Jonathan Merritt, who recorded the comments in an interview with the 84-year-old author and theologian, said that in […]
Eugene Peterson, author of ‘The Message’, reportedly says he’s changed his view on same-sex marriage
Eugene Peterson, the US-based author of The Message, reportedly says his view of same-sex marriage has changed and he would, if he was still pastoring and asked to do so by two gay Christians of good faith, perform a same-sex wedding ceremony. In an interview with Jonathan Merritt of Religion News Service, Peterson, when asked whether his […]