What is the balance between religious liberty and new Title VII protections against discrimination?

A World Vision case brings the question to the fore.
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Gospel music accounts for 20 percent of the Brazilian music industry’s revenue. Major international record labels have noticed.

And mainstream artists are crossing into the Christian market.
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“If I can give some unwanted advice to my 22-year-old self, the groom, I would say to him, ‘You are right about the bride, and right to ask her to marry you…but you are wrong about Ruth.

That text has everything to do with your next 30 years.’”
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“Countless thousands of Christians are specifically praying for God’s will in Iran,” says Lana Silk, CEO of Transform Iran, which oversees a network of churches in the nation.

“I believe his hand is on all these key events.”
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Near expulsion, self-harm, hospitalization: Wendy Kiyomi’s adopted adolescent children were suffering the effects of early childhood trauma.

“I had prayed for a certain kind of rescue, but, rescueless, glimpsed instead the suffering heart of Jesus.”
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“It is not good to use the barrel of a gun to engage the democratic process.”

A South African Christian leader on the peacemaking work of the “church in society”:
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“I reached for my Bible and ran my fingers over the puckered pages. To whom else could I go?

The Lord has the words of eternal life, and I’m a complete sucker for him.”

On praying past the end of silver linings:
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“While some of the characters in ‘3 Body Problem’ respond to their limited time with ambition or experiments, others choose relationship.”

isabel ong on the sci-fi series and slow-moving love:
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“The work of bringing God’s kingdom does not end when we get rid of evil, but rather when we build better things in its place.

And (without spoiling too much) it’s exactly this kind of building that the last scene of ‘Furiosa’ evokes.”
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Why did Flannery O’Connor struggle to finish her third novel?

Perhaps because “she had written herself into a situation of needing to deal with race and civil rights in a more honest and thoughtful way than she ever had before.”
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“The recovery world—within church and without—hasn’t caught up to the epidemic of women’s drinking problems,” writes Ericka Andersen | Writer.
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“Regardless of your starting position on questions of sexuality, ‘Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships?’ is a good place to begin examining it in light of Scripture.

Every believer and seeker will find something to learn.”
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Marshall Allen’s reporting was marked by a cheerful determination to uncover truth, which friends and coworkers attributed to his faith.
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“It would have been better for Ebrahim Raisi to face trial and be held accountable for his crimes,” says the director of an Iranian religious freedom advocacy organization.

“But the world is a safer place without him.”
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Christians with ADHD are turning to ancient Christian prayers, practicing freedom in their devotional time, and letting go of shame.
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Oscar Siwali, leader of a faith-based conflict mediation organization, is mobilizing “election workers for peace” as South Africa goes to the polls.
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Lazare Sebitereko Rukundwa has been detained in Congo’s Makala Central Prison for almost a year.

“Being a prisoner does not make me less human. I continue to dream, to be creative, and to be a person who can turn circumstances into opportunities.”
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“Christian influence comes with a cross. Its purpose is far more about self-sacrifice than self-indulgence.”
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Must worship songs be made by Christians?

Brazil’s pop stars are prompting debate.
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“Using words like ‘toxic’ and ‘gaslighting’ as sloppy shorthand for normal conflicts with parents, professors, and friends is dishonest...

It dilutes the meaning of serious words for people who’ve undergone serious suffering.”
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