8. Will this regulation force Planned Parenthood to choose between receiving Title X funding and performing abortions?

Not necessarily, but this new regulation does require a “disentanglement” of funding. Planned Parenthood and other Title X clinics would need to change the way they operate and possibly reorganize their legal structures in order to comply with the new regulation. But since the Reagan-era, technology and other regulations have made it much easier for organizations like Planned Parenthood to comply with the rule in a way that allows them to continue to perform abortions and still receive Title X grants.

The increase of medical abortions (i.e., using drugs such as Mifepruex to induce abortion) has reduced both the number of personnel and the type of facilities needed for Planned Parenthood to conduct abortion. For example, four states allow women the ability to speak with a doctor from their own home and to receive their medications by mail. Some other states use a form of telemedicine abortion called “the Iowa model.” As Eric Wicklund explains,

Current FDA rules restrict the drug – also known as Mifepruex – to clinical settings, specifically excluding pharmacies, so that it can’t be prescribed or mailed. That has given rise to a form of telemedicine abortion called “the Iowa model,” in which the patient visits a clinic and consults via telemedicine with a clinician…

Rick Patrick, an Alabama pastor, publisher of SBC Today and executive director of the Connect 316 ministry, has apologized for a Facebook post mocking prominent evangelical supporters of women as the #MeToo movement rises in churches.

Patrick’s post came as prominent Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson stepped down as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on Tuesday amid his controversial remarks about domestic violence and divorce. The Washington Post also reported fresh allegations Tuesday that Patterson encouraged a woman who said she had been raped not to report it to the police and told her to forgive her alleged assailant.

In his controversial tweet which is now being heavily circulated online, Patrick appears to take aim at evangelicals who have been vocal supporters of women in light of the Patterson controversy, including ERLC President Russell Moore; Wade Burleson, lead pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma, and Ed Stetzer, who is Billy Graham Distinguished Chair at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

“This all reminds me of the time I saw a donkey being gang raped by Wade Burleson, Ben Cole, Russell Moore, Ed Stetzer, and…

WASHINGTON — Pastor Greg Laurie asserted that recent geopolitical events suggest we are living in the last days, and he urged Christians to take every opportunity to share the Gospel.

And believers in Jesus need not embrace the idea that they cannot understand Bible prophecy because Scripture says otherwise, Laurie, who leads Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California, said in a May 4 sit-down interview with The Christian Post at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. 

The California pastor, who was at the White House the day before for a National Day of Prayer observance, told CP that he was in the midst of a sermon series on the book of Daniel, which speaks of the end times. And when Jesus speaks in the Gospels of when people see “the abomination of desolation” that is spoken of by Daniel the prophet, “and then he says: ‘Let the reader understand.'”

“Sometimes people will say ‘Oh, we can’t understand Bible prophecy.’ Yet the Scripture says ‘Let the reader understand.’ And the fact of the matter is that the very word ‘revelation,’ as in the Book of Revelation, means…

One of the students who was injured in the horrific Santa Fe, Texas High School shooting last week said he survived by the “grace of God.”

The Christian Post reports that 16-year-old Rome Shubert was sitting in his art class when the shooter entered around 7:45 a.m. on Friday, May 18th.

Eight students and two teachers lost their lives in the shooting, and 10 others were injured. Although injured, Shubert thanked God his life was spared.

He told the Houston Chronicle that he did not at first realize that he had been shot in the back of the head.

“I was just scared for my life, and my adrenaline was so high I had no idea I was shot,” he said.

“I was sitting doing my work, and he [the shooter] walked in, tossed something on the desks behind me,” Shubert recalled. “And then three loud pops, and I jumped under my table and flipped it in front of me, and I guess he ran out in the hall, and I took off out the back door, and when I was running, I realized I was shot in the back of my head.”

Doctors later said Shubert had the “perfect scenario,” and that it was a miracle he was not dead.

As for Shubert, he said it was “Definitely [the] grace of God, I had an angel on my shoulder and He’s watching over me.”

“I’m so greatful [sic] and blessed that God spared my life today. Today I was shot in the back of the head but I am completely okay…

The Southern Baptist Convention has now officially ended its ties with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, after the latter refused to remove a church whose co-pastors are a married lesbian couple.

Interim SBC Executive Committee President D. August Boto said in a statement on Tuesday through Baptist Press that “the formal relationship between the SBC and the DCBC has come to an end.”

Calvary Baptist Church in Washington voted in favor of installing lesbian couple Maria Swearingen and Sally Sarratt as co-pastors in January 2017, which sparked the controversy.

The Executive Committee adopted a recommendation in February that gave the DCBC 90 days to “secure” the “removal of any churches from its fellowship that have demonstrated a faith or practice affirming, approving or endorsing homosexual behavior.” But no action was taken by the DC convention.

Approximately 6,000 people attended the United Methodist Women’s quadrennial Assembly, where leaders denounced the denomination’s recent voting down of an amendment to their Book of Discipline which said that God is not “male or female.”

Recently, the United Methodist Church announced that their annual conferences narrowly voted down Proposed Constitutional Amendment I, which included the claim that “it is contrary to Scripture and to logic to say that God is male or female, as maleness and femaleness are characteristics of human bodies and cultures, not characteristics of the divine.”

A group of female United Methodist Bishops were present for the Assembly’s closing ceremony, in which they spoke against the rejection of two proposed amendments to the Book of Discipline that centered on the issue of gender equality.

Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey of the Louisiana Episcopal Area, one of the nine women clergy at the ceremony, noted that in response to the amendment’s failing, female UMC bishops “made a statement to The United Methodist Church that provided a glimpse into the need for equity and gender equality for women and girls in our churches and…