The nation’s college students will have the option of taking classes discussing “queering childhood,” “queering the Bible” and “transgender Christs,” according to a report by CampusReform.com. 

Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., is offering the new class on Queering Childhood, which will discuss “the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness.” Campus Reform added that the class will focus on childhoods of “queer and crip children,” and will spotlight works related to “gender studies, childhood studies, disability studies, and queer theory.”

Eugene Lang College in New York City will offer a class on “Queering and Decolonizing Theology,” which will examine “the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community,” and “transgender Christs.”  

“Christian theology is often depicted as a violent colonial force standing in particular opposition to LGBTQI lives,” the Lang College course description reads, according to Campus Reform.com. “However, over the last 30 years people of faith, activists, and theorists alike have rediscovered what is queer within Christianity, uncovered what is religious within secular queer communities, and used postcolonial…

A jury in Alexandria, VA found President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, guilty on eight counts of financial fraud. The case, spawned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, made headlines for weeks as prosecutors introduced thousands of pages of records into evidence.

The jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to disclose a foreign bank account. The judge declared a mistrial on ten other counts on which the jury did not come to a verdict.

At the heart of the trial were millions of dollars Manafort, 69, made working for a political party in Ukraine who favored pro-Russian policies. The five counts for tax fraud were for filing false tax returns in the years 2010 through 2014. He did not report a foreign bank account in 2012. The remaining counts were related to two bank loans worth over $4 million.

Reporters asked President Trump for his response to Manafort’s conviction after he landed for a rally in West Virginia. He expressed sympathy for Manafort while also arguing that it had nothing to do with his 2016 campaign.

President Trump called the verdict a “sad thing” and said Manafort is “a good man.” Then he told reporters, “This had nothing to do with Russian collusion” before taking a shot at the…

Christians must return to the hard work of making disciples, abandon the less-is-more approach to church, and examine our own failures when considering the ongoing #MeToo fallout, says Pastor James MacDonald.

In an interview with The Christian Post, the longtime pastor of the multicampus Harvest Bible Chapel in Illinois, candidly shared what he’s learned and continues to learn about the heart of Jesus, and where he sees the Body of Christ going amid profound cultural changes.

With three decades now behind him, MacDonald is already visioncasting and planning for the next 30 years, alongside his three children who are also active in ministry.

MacDonald founded HBC in 1988 with 18 people and today hosts 13,000 at their seven Chicago-area campuses every week. In 2002, he founded the church-planting network Harvest Bible Fellowship.

Below is a lightly edited transcript of James MacDonald’s interview with The Christian Post. 

CP: In 30 years of ministry, what is the greatest difference you see in terms of doing ministry in Chicagoland, and, more generally, in America, when you started versus 2018? Broadly speaking, what did American evangelical Christianity look like then, in your view,…

Republican Sen. Susan Collins says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh called Roe v. Wade “settled law” in a private meeting with her, but pro-choice activists and Democratic leaders greeted the news with skepticism. 

The exchange between Collins and Kavanaugh – who was nominated by President Trump in June – came in a meeting in which they discussed several issues, including the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.   

“We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins told reporters, according to NPR. “He said that he agreed with what Justice Roberts said at his nomination hearing, at which he said that it was settled law.”

Chief Justice John Roberts, during his 2005 confirmation hearing, said Roe was “settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis.”

Unlike lower courts, the Supreme Court is not bound by precedent – a fact that Democrats noted. They also pointed out that Kavanaugh has not praised Roe, either.  

“Let’s be clear: This is not as simple as Judge Kavanaugh saying that Roe is settled law,” said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Everything the Supreme Court decides is settled law until it unsettles it. Saying a case is settled law is not the same thing as saying a case was correctly decided.”

The American Civil…

Police found what they believe to be the body of Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old college student who went missing in July.

The body was found in a field southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa.

“The identity has not been confirmed, however, we believe it to be the body of Mollie Tibbetts,” said Rick Rahn, a special agent of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

A 24-year-old undocumented immigrant has been charged with first-degree murder in the case. He has been identified as Cristhian Bahena Rivera. He lives in rural Poweshiek County. According to The New York Times, Rivera was from Mexico.

“You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly from Mexico, and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman,” said President Donald Trump. “It should’ve never happened. Illegally in our country. We’ve had a huge impact, but the laws are so bad, the immigration laws are such a disgrace.”

Tibbetts went missing on July 18 after going for a run. Police have not released the cause of death. An autopsy is set for Wednesday.

Police later reviewed security video footage that showed Rivera’s car. The video also shows Tibbets running near Boundary and Middle Streets when a dark-colored Chevy Malibu appears and drives back and forth.

Rivera told police he pursued a woman running in the area and then parked his car…