Author and pastor Greg Laurie revealed Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is doing OK, although he requested prayer and urged Americans to stop politicizing the pandemic.

Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California, said he tested positive on Friday and is quarantining.

“It started with some fatigue that I was feeling, some aches and pains, and a fever. And then I found out the news I didn’t want to find out – that I actually have the coronavirus. I’ve been doing okay actually,” Laurie said in a video he released.

“I just wish at a time like this we cannot politicize something like this and [that we] show compassion to people that are struggling with this. It’s real,” he said of the coronavirus. “It really is a pandemic that has swept our nation, and even the world. … If the president of the United States can get it, obviously, anybody can get it.”

With “God’s help” and with the prayers of the church, Laurie said he expects “to get through this.”

“Another couple of symptoms I’ve experienced is [that] things don’t taste right to me. So as a result, I’ve maybe lost two pounds – a little Romans 8:28 moment there. Another symptom I’ve experienced is boredom. … I want to get out again, doing what I’m called to do. So, thank you for your interest and your concern,” Laurie said.

“It’s important as Christians, for…

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pledged Monday to make Roe v. Wade “the law of the land” through legislation if the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 decision, a move that could ensure abortion remains legal even if the high court gets involved.

Speaking at an NBC News town hall, Biden was asked about his “plans to protect women’s reproductive rights in the U.S.” in light of the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.

“We don’t know exactly what she will do, although the expectation is that she may very well move to …. overrule Roe,” Biden answered. “… The only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making Roe the law of the land. That’s what I would do.”

Biden had previously said he would move to “codify Roe” in such an instance, although Monday’s answer occurred in a more high-profile setting, less than one month before the election. 

A tweet from his campaign read, “Roe v. Wade must remain the law of the land.”

His website includes a lengthy section on abortion where he pledges to:

• Block pro-life state laws that violate Roe. “Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his  Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade,” the website says.
• Restore funding for Planned Parenthood that was pulled by the Trump administration. “As…

On the first episode of her new podcast You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Pastor William J. Barber II of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, spoke about justice and racism.

According to The Christian Post, Clinton contended that “Jesus and justice are the same thing” and that Christians must understand as to “how profoundly true that simple phrase really is.”

“You know, to say that Jesus and justice are the same thing seems to me to be so obvious,” Clinton asserted. “I mean, how can you be a Bible reading person, a church attending person, and not understand how profoundly true that simple phrase really is?” Clinton asked.

She then proceeded to ask Barber, a known social justice advocate, how he is “trying to open up people’s minds and hearts to understand what Christianity should mean and what should be expected of us who claim to be followers of Jesus.”

Barber reposnded assrting that there must first be an admission that there have been many things in Western and American culture’s that have negatively impacted theology. Barber cited, the “genocide of First Nations people and the enslavement of African Americans,” and seeing women oppressed and excluded as events that negatively impacted theology.

Barber then recalled what one of his professors told him as to what it means to be…

Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson Huff and her husband Christian Huff have announced they are pregnant with their first child, The Christian Post reports.

This news comes after almost a year of being married.

Robertson Huff shared the news in an Instagram post writing, “We are thankful to be carrying a miracle into the world! Baby, you are already loved and already believed in.”

The caption went along with a photo of the husband and wife holding up an ultrasound picture.

Celebrities, including Candace Cameron Bure, Shawn Johnson and Jeremy Camp offered their congratulations to the couple.

“Ahhhhhhhh Sadie, congratulations!!!!!!!! we are SO excited for you guys!!!!!” Bure commented on the post.

“OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!! We are so excited for you guys!!!!!” Johnson wrote.

Camp shared his excitement for the couple simply writing, “Amazing!!”

Christian Huff shared her wife’s Instagram post, writing “mom & dad” as the photo’s caption.

Korie Robertson, Sadie’s mother, also shared the news on her Instagram account, writing “Big, crazy, awesome news!! My baby is having a baby … y’all are going to be the most amazing, fun, joyful parents. Baby Huff we adore you already, we promise to love you forever and always! Welcome to the fam little one!”

Accoridng to The Christian Post, Sadie, who has struggled with anxiety for years, made a YouVersion devotional to help other young people…

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for the coronavirus.

“After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms,” McEnany posted to Twitter.

“As an essential worker, I have worked diligently to provide needed information to the American People at this time,” she wrote. “With my recent positive test, I will begin the quarantine process and will continue working on behalf of the American People remotely.”

Other sources said press office officials Karoline Leavitt and Chad Gilmartin have also tested positive.

McEnany’s announcement comes just a few days after President Donald Trump tested positive for coronavirus. He was briefly treated at Walter Reed Medical Center before returning to the White House on Monday. First Lady Melania Trump also tested positive.

Health experts believe that members of Trump’s administration may have been exposed to the virus at a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House last month when Trump introduced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

According to USA Today, few officials wore masks at the event, but McEnany wore one for part of the event.

She had last briefed reporters at the White House Thursday, but on Sunday she held an informal briefing outside. She did not wear a mask at either…

A disciplinary panel of The Episcopal Church has ruled that a bishop who refused to allow the blessing of same-sex marriages in his diocese violated canon law.

Bishop William Love of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany was punished last year with a restriction on his ministerial duties after he refused to allow same-sex marriages in his diocese.

Love had refused to allow for the enforcement of Resolution B012, a measure passed in 2018 requiring that all Episcopal dioceses allow for the blessing of same-sex unions.

A Title IV Hearing Panel, which focuses on issues of ecclesiastical discipline when a clergy is accused of misconduct, released a unanimous opinion last Friday finding Love guilty.

“Love’s actions in issuing a Pastoral Direction to his clergy that they refrain from performing same-sex marriages violated the Discipline and Worship of the Church as Bishop Love promised in his ordinal vows. His actions, therefore, constitute a breach of Canon IV.3.2(a),” ruled the panel.

The panel added that Resolution B012…

A pregnancy center, a group of churches and private schools in Virginia are suing the state over a law that says employers cannot discriminate on hiring based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

According to The Christian Post, Calvary Road Baptist Church of Fairfax County and its school, Community Fellowship Church of Staunton and its school, Community Christian Academy of Charlottesville, and Care Net of Loudon County filed the suit last week.

The Virginia Values Act, also called Senate Bill 868, was passed in April and took effect in July after being signed by Gov. Ralph Northam.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative law firm, is representing the group in the lawsuit.

The complaint says that employers would be forced to “hire employees who do not share and follow their beliefs on biblical marriage, sexuality, and gender,” “prohibit the Ministries from terminating employees who oppose their missions and convictions,” and “make the Ministries use their facilities in a way that contradicts biblical teachings on sexuality, marriage, and gender.”

“SB 868 puts the Ministries in an impossible position: they must either abandon the religious convictions they were founded upon, or be ready to face investigations, an onerous administrative process, fines up to $100,000 for each violation, unlimited compensatory and punitive damages and…