A United Methodist Church associate pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has lost her pastoral license because of her decision to break denomination’s biblically-based rules and marry a same-sex couple.

St. Elmo United Methodist Church announced to its congregation on Sunday that Anna Golladay, who served as associate pastor, is no longer allowed to work at the church because the UMC district committee on ministry has revoked her license.

“That committee learned that Anna, while serving as local pastor, officiated a same-sex wedding,” the church’s lead Pastor Gary Ihfe wrote in a Facebook post Monday. “The committee decided this was in breach of her covenant to serve as pastor as outlined in the 2016 United Methodist Book of Discipline, and so they rescinded her license.”

As a denomination, the UMC officially holds a Christian view that marriage is a union between only one man and one woman and supports laws in civil society that defines marriage in those terms.

A Washington, D.C. imam, a Muslim leader, is encouraging his Muslim friends to visit the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

The Muslim leader is just one of many different types of people that are visiting the museum and enjoying its exhibits.

The president of the museum, Cary Summers, told media last week at the National Religious Broadcaster’s International Christian Media Convention that the imam visited the museum with his family and later told Summers what he thought of the facility.

“We had one of the imams from one of the mosques in Washington come and spend three hours [at the museum]; he brought his wife and five daughters,” Summers said. “He saw me a week later and he told me that he had been there, which I knew, and I said, ‘What did you think?’ And he said, ‘I’m telling you, every Muslim, they should come to this museum.’”

Summers said that since the museum opened in November 2017, the facility has had more than 340,000 visitors.

“Who’s coming to the museum? The world is coming in. It’s not all evangelical Christians, but people from all over the world,” he said.

“I got a note the other day from a person and she said, ‘While we were there, on our right side were Orthodox Jews walking with us, and on our left side was confessing agnostics. And they were all loving the museum,'” Summers said of the note.

The museum boasts 430,000 square feet…

A top bishop in the Church of England issued his “Ten Commandments of artificial intelligence,” during a major policy debate in London last week, based on the importance of trust and ethics in the evolving technology.

The Rt. Rev. Steven Croft, the Lord Bishop of Oxford who is a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on artificial intelligence, spoke last week at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar, artificial intelligence and Robotics: Innovation, Funding and Policy Priorities.

Croft came up with a 10-point plan following a debate on trust, ethics, and cybersecurity, the Internet of Business website reported, which he presented before government, academics and business representatives from around the world.

The so-called “10 Commandments of AI” begin with the call for AI to be “designed for all, and benefit humanity.”

“AI should operate on principles of transparency and fairness, and be well signposted,” the list continues.

“AI should not be used to transgress the data rights and privacy of individuals, families, or communities.”

Next, it calls for the application of AI to be aimed at reducing “inequality of wealth, health, and opportunity.”

“AI should not be used for criminal intent, nor to subvert the values of our…

A Wrinkle in Time, the classic children’s book by Madeleine L’Engle, has been made into a major motion picture which will be released in theaters this Friday, March 9th. The 14-year-old star of the film, Storm Reid, identifies as a Christian and said God has called her into acting.

Reid plays the main character of the story, Meg Murry, who embarks on a quest to find her missing father. According to The Christian Post, Reid, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, told her mother, “I wanna be on TV. I wanna be a superstar! Since I know this is my passion and I feel like God chose this career for me, I just knew I was ready to do it.” 

Reid also starred in the 2014 best picture film 12 Years a Slave. At only 14, she has already worked with some of Hollywood’s most well-known stars, including Reese Witherspoon and Oprah Winfrey who are her co-stars in A Wrinkle in Time.

She also worked with Christian actor David Oyelowo on the upcoming film Only You. She told Dazed Digital that Oyelowo gave her a “mustard-seed bracelet” with Matthew 17:20 on it.

She explained the significance of this verse: “In the Bible, it’s said that if you have faith as small as a grain of a mustard seed, God will move mountains. It means if you have faith this small then God’s got your back.”

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Publication date: March 6, 2018

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