A debate on the role of women leaders in the church has resurfaced after social media pages revealed some complementarians privately decrying author Aimee Byrd.

In a Facebook group called Geneva Commons, elders from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church in America discussed Byrd, a Christian author and speaker.

“I wish her husband loved her enough to tell her to shut up,” one person is reported to have written.

“Why can’t these women just take their shoes off and make us some sandwiches!?!” another wrote.

Byrd is the author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose.

The OPC has since apologized and released a letter saying they are “greatly concerned about the overtly misogynistic tone leveled at women authors.”

The comments about Byrd have raised the discussion between egalitarianism and complementarianism and a call for change in views on women’s role in the church.

In an article for Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer took issue with the misogyny that often comes with complementarian beliefs. Stetzer highlighted the mistreatment of Byrd and fellow female Christian speaker and author Beth Moore.

Referring to the Geneva Commons groups comments about Byrd and Moore’s 2018 publication of “A Letter to My Brothers” in which she pleaded with her male counterparts not to tolerate…

Tennessee’s governor is pledging to sign a recently passed bill that bans abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected and also prohibits abortions based on sex, race or a Down syndrome diagnosis.

The legislation, House Bill 2263 and Senate Bill 2196, passed the Tennessee House of Representatives 70-20 and the Senate 23-5, and now awaits action by Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican who championed the bill earlier this year and confirmed in a tweet he will sign it. He also thanked legislators who promoted it.    

“One of the most important things we can do to be pro-family is to protect the rights of the most vulnerable in our state, and there is none more vulnerable than the unborn,” Lee tweeted. “We have passed the strongest pro-life law in our state’s history.” 

One of the most important things we can do to be pro-family is to protect the rights of the most vulnerable in our state, and there is none more vulnerable than the unborn.

— Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) June 19, 2020

We have passed the strongest pro-life law in our state’s history and I am grateful to @ltgovmcnally, @CSexton25, @SenJohnson, @WilliamLamberth and members of our General Assembly for making the heartbeat bill law.

— Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) June 19, 2020

The bill makes it a crime “to perform” an abortion “upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat,”…

Over the weekend, Pope Francis stressed the importance of fellowship between God and one another in a message of unity and gratitude.

“Now more than ever the claim to focus everything on ourselves is illusory – to make individualism the guiding principle of society has proved to be illusory,” Francis said on Saturday at the Vatican, according to the Catholic News Agency.

His audience included those hit the hardest by COVID-19 in Italy: physicians, healthcare workers, clerics, civil authorities and representatives of the mountain infantry from Lombardy.

The Pontifex cautioned that it would be easy to return “into this illusion” of individualism following the pandemic.

“It is easy to quickly forget that we need others, someone who takes care of us, who gives us courage. Forgetting that we all need a Father who holds out his hand,” he shared.

Francis then asserted that praying to God is “not an illusion.”

He added, “Prayer is the soul of hope.”

The Pope then urged the people to rebuild together on a foundation of love.

“In this way, we will be able to get out of this crisis spiritually and morally stronger; and this depends on the conscience and responsibility of each of us,” he stated. “Not alone, however, but together and with the grace of God.”

Francis then offered his gratitude to healthcare workers for being “a visible sign of humanity that warms…

One man from Texas is calling for a change in America that goes beyond protesting.

Jerry Roberts, who works as a facilities maintenance manager at a farm in Texas, recently shared a message titled “What are you talking about?” on his Facebook page which has garnered more than 4 million views at the time of this writing.

“Protesting isn’t going to change anybody. Protesting is not gonna change anything,” Roberts asserted in the video, according to CBN News.

“There’s only one thing that’s going to change people and that is Jesus Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit, sanctification of the world of the living God,” he continued.

“John chapter 17, verse 17, that is the only thing that’s going to change people’s lives. God is the only one that’s gonna give you a new heart and a new spirit. That’s it. God himself. The living God.” he said.

Roberts then encouraged people to close their social media apps and spend time in the word. “What we need to do is turn to the Bible and stop turning to social media and stop turning to the ways of the ungodly,” he urged.

“We don’t do things the way the world does things,” he said before referring to the story of two men on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Luke 24 tells the story of two men who are traveling to Emmaus and are grieving Jesus’ death. The men are speaking to each other about Jesus’ crucifixion,…

President Trump warned supporters Saturday during a rally in Tulsa, Okla., that Joe Biden will fund abortion with taxpayer money and nominate “extreme” justices to the Supreme Court if elected.

It was the first political rally since the coronavirus outbreak for Trump. He spoke about an hour and 45 minutes and covered multiple topics, including social issues and free speech.

“If Joe Biden were to become president, an emboldened left will launch a full-scale assault on American life,” Trump said. “… They’ll expel anyone who disagrees with them.

“… They want to crush religious liberty. They don’t want religion. [They want to] silence religious believers, indoctrinate your children with hateful and vicious lies about our country, subsidize late-term abortion and after-birth execution.”

Trump, who released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees during the 2016 campaign, said on Saturday he will release a similar list of about 25 candidates for a second term.

“I’ll be soon announcing a new list of exceptional candidates for the United States Supreme Court. And I’ll choose only from that list,” Trump said. “… Biden can’t release his list because the names would be too extreme, too radical. They wouldn’t be acceptable, but they will be very radical people.”

Biden and Democrats, he said, “want to appoint Supreme Court justices who will…

Dr. Voddie Baucham, who currently serves as the Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, addressed the current issue of social justice on Glenn Beck’s program on Thursday.

Beck, who learned of Baucham through his message entitled “Ethnic Gnosticism,” discussed the matter further with Baucham in a Skype interview.

Faithwire reports that Baucham’s coined phrase “Ethnic Gnosticism” is similar to Gnosticism which is derived from the Greek, “gnosis” or “having secret knowledge.

He explained to Beck that “Ethnic Gnosticism” is defined as the “idea that black people (and other ethnicities including white people as well) have the ability to possess secret knowledge of motive, intent, and goals in specific situations such as the recent cases involving police officers and black men.”

 For Baucham, he believes that the term contradicts The Gospel as “our knowledge comes from God,” who is the source of all knowledge.

Baucham also noted that Scripture must be the source we use “to understand truth” and how “we look at the world.”

“So as Christians, these are the ways that we seek for truth. Not through special individuals, who have special knowledge,” he asserted.

Baucham also noted that the Black Lives Matter movement has been likened to a religion.

“Jim Wallace wrote a book, and the title of his book was, ‘America’s…