A photo of Candace Cameron Bure and husband Valeri Bure is receiving backlash from some who are calling it inappropriate. But the Christian celebrity isn’t standing for it.

Candace Cameron Bure and husband Valeri Bure met at a hockey game in 1994. Two years later, on June 22, 1996, they became husband and wife. 

With more than 20 years of marriage under their belt, the flame is still very much alive for these love birds.

And that was very apparent in a playful photo Candace shared in her Instagram stories. However, the Christian celebrity caught heat from some who felt the image was inappropriate.

But Candace isn’t backing down and even reshared the photo along with a rebuttal to all the controversy!

In the post, Candace Cameron Bure shared two photos of her and husband Valeri Bure captured “sweet and spicy”. And in the second “spicy” photo, Valeri has his arm around Candace, with his hand resting directly on his wife’s chest.

Some folks commenting blasted her for a public display of affection (PDA) they considered too racy for a Christian celebrity.

Candace Cameron Bure is known for being outspoken. She’s not afraid to speak out about her faith. And she’s also not afraid to face controversy. So, rather than back down or remove the image, Candace fired back.

“Sorry if it offended you… I’m actually not sorry,” she laughed in a follow-up video shared to her Instagram…

President Trump this weekend said he would quickly name a nominee to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, adding that he and the Senate have a “moral duty to fulfill the promises they made to the voters.”

“We’re going to fill the seat,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina. “… We have plenty of time.”

On Monday, Trump said the nominee likely would be announced Friday or Saturday. He is considering five candidates, he said. It will be a woman, he added.

It would be the third vacancy he has filled.

The vacancy gives Trump an historic opportunity: The last president to fill more than two vacancies on the Supreme Court was Ronald Reagan, who placed three justices on the court in the span of two terms. Richard Nixon was the last president to fill more than two seats on the court in only one term. (Nixon, in his first term, filled four vacancies.) Presidents George W. Bush, Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Obama each filled two vacancies.

More significantly, the vacancy gives Trump a chance to shape the court’s ideology by replacing two supporters of Roe v. Wade with new justices. He previously replaced swing vote Anthony Kennedy – who had voted to uphold Roe – with Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Ginsburg was a champion of liberal causes, having served as an attorney for the ACLU before being named to the D.C. Court of Appeals…

Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.

Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, and everything in between.

Here are three things that happened this week, Sept. 20-26, in Church history. They include the birth of Charles Stanley, the death of a pope, and the creation of the Orange Order.  

Nearly two-thirds of young adults in the United States do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, according to a surprising new survey that also shows Holocaust denial is prevalent on social media.

The poll of U.S. Millennials and Gen Z adults ages 18-39, released last week, showed that only 37 percent accurately said 6 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust. One third (36 percent) said it was 2 million or less, while 17 percent were not sure. It was a multiple-choice question, with seven possible answers.

Nearly half of respondents (48 percent) could not name a single concentration camp, death camp or ghetto during World War II. (Auschwitz, at 44 percent, was the most well-known camp.)

About half (49 percent) also said they had seen holocaust denial or distortion on social media or elsewhere online.

A total of 15 percent of respondents said they believe either the number of Jews has been exaggerated (12 percent) or the Holocaust did not happen (3 percent).

The survey was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. It included 1,000 interviews nationwide and 200 interviews in each state.

“The results are both shocking and saddening and they underscore why we must act now while Holocaust survivors are still with us to voice their stories,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the conference….

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Monday, September 21, 2020

After a tumultuous last few years, actor and rapper Orlando Brown, best known for his role as Eddie Thomas on the Disney Channel series “That’s So Raven,” is getting ready to graduate from a faith-based treatment center in Texas and he’s singing high praises about the power of prayer and Christian fellowship.

Brown, 32, who has had a very public struggle with drugs and his mental health, told The Christian Post Monday that he is looking forward to graduating from Rise Discipleship, a free 6-month in-patient recovery program for men who struggle with addiction, homelessness and other life-controlling issues run by Rise Church in Abilene, Texas.

“We help not only those who struggle with drugs and alcohol, but also those who battle depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Every RISE student will be given a biblical foundation that will assist in character building and the leadership development to approach life in a new light,” the Rise Discipleship website explains.

While he said he wasn’t yet ready to do any extended…

More than 100 current and former Democratic leaders signed a letter printed in the New York Times Sunday saying the party’s “extreme position” on abortion is “alienating voters” and that many Democratic leaders are “radically out of line with public opinion.”

The letter was part of a full-page ad in the newspaper and was endorsed by several current politicians, including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.) and Louisiana state Rep. Katrina Jackson. Among the former legislators who signed the letter were former U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.).

Pro-Life Democrats will NOT leave the Party to be controlled by the abortion lobby. We are serious about protecting ALL life and advocating for whole life policies from womb to tomb. Here is our FULL PAGE ad in today’s New York Times. #openthebigtent #DiversityandInclusion pic.twitter.com/2zrxPRALTv

— Kristen Day (@ProLifeDem) September 20, 2020

All total, the letter included the signatures of four governors and lieutenant governors, nine current or former members of Congress, 57 state legislators and 33 local officials.

It was organized by Democrats For Life Of America.

The letter says the pro-life Democrats are united by three “major concerns”:

• “We are concerned that many Democratic leaders support policies on abortion that are radically…

A 21-year-old Texas pastor says his preaching license will not be renewed after he publicly endorsed Joe Biden for President on his social media account.

According to Relevant Magazine, David Bumgardner, a student at Southwestern Seminary’s Scarborough College, says the pastor at the church he has interned with told him that his license will not be renewed.

Bumgardner received the license in July after serving a year-long internship at Faith Memorial Baptist Church in Archer City.

Also in July, Bumgardner posted on Facebook that he would be voting for Biden.

“I am voting for Joe Biden to get the most egotistical, hypocritical, divisive, deranged, and dangerous man to ever hold presidential office out of the Oval,” he wrote. “I am voting for Joe Biden because he will bring back decency to the White House.”

Bumgardner said he was Republican but said he believed President Donald Trump is a “threat to the flourishing of my neighbors … to national security … (and) to national unity.”

“I am a conservative, Bible-believing, orthodox, evangelical Baptist that believes the best way to serve my neighbors and steward my vote is by helping Joe Biden get to the White House,” he wrote on Twitter.

After the post gained views and comments, Avery Sprey, pastor at Faith Memorial Baptist Church, reportedly told Bumgardner that his license to preach would not be…

(RNS) — An Idaho church plans to reopen in person despite its pastor being hospitalized for COVID-19.

On Monday (Sept. 14), Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene posted a notice on the church website with an update on the condition of its pastor, Paul Van Noy, and his wife, Brenda. Both have been recovering from COVID-19.

As of Monday, Pastor Van Noy had spent 11 days in the ICU and was still on oxygen. His wife was recovering at home.

“I am watching in prayer that there are no new cases and we can all be back together — worshipping together as called — very soon,” Van Noy wrote in the update. “Please pray for health and strength for all. We are called to such a time as this — to represent the Lord!”

According to the Candlelight website, the congregation plans to hold two in-person services this coming Sunday. The church had been closed for two weeks and was deep cleaned in preparation for reopening. In addition to their pastor and his wife, five staff members were infected, a church leader told the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane. 

“We didn’t want, obviously, to be spreading the virus,” Eric Reade, a church leader, told the Spokesman-Review.

About 60 people from several churches gathered in a parking lot outside Kootenai Health last weekend to sing and pray for Van Noy’s recovery. The parking lot was visible from intensive care,…

David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, whose videos allegedly exposed Planned Parenthood’s illegal back channel deals to sell baby parts on a black market, has now filed a defamation claim in the state of New York against Planned Parenthood for lying about the content of his videos.

Daleiden is represented by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that is “dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty.”

The complaint alleges “For over 20 years, Defendant Planned Parenthood Federation of America (“PPFA”), the largest elective abortion provider in the United States, has permitted and even encouraged its abortion clinics to supply aborted human fetuses, fetal organs, and fetal tissues for research experimentation, frequently in exchange for valuable consideration paid to the clinics…

The Videos focused attention both on PPFA’s fetal tissue research programs and on its clinics’ relationships with third-party vendors of human fetal tissue, prompting two comprehensive, year-long Congressional investigations.

Both Congressional investigations issued criminal referrals to the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) against PPFA, multiple PPFA regional affiliates, and their business partners for selling fetal tissue against the law.

DOJ then launched a criminal investigation into Planned…