Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns, COG Pentecostal Seminary writes: “You are right to point out that while your elders read culture with a critical lens, we failed to deconstruct the church’s purity culture. The church has bought into the long standing belief that men, being hormonally driven, get a pass in regards to objectifying and abusing […]

@drummerkelly91 needs to get back to Twitterville and join the #ourCoG conversation.

CNN — Openly gay youths will be allowed to join scouting, a historic decision the Boy Scouts of America says will keep it unclouded by “a single, divisive, and unresolved societal issue.” More than 60% of the group’s 1,400-member national council voted Thursday at an annual meeting in Grapevine, Texas, for the change, which takes effect […]

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Methodist leaders said they plan to accept an invitation from Pope Benedict XVI to join a 1999 statement between Catholics and Lutherans that overcame centuries of division on the nature of salvation. Bishop Sunday Mbang of Nigeria, president of the World Methodist Council, said he expects the Joint Declaration to be ratified when the Methodists […]

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