Families who want to watch Disney Plus movies without the coarse language and adult content can now do so thanks to a new service from ClearPlay.

The Utah-based company announced in recent days it was expanding its service to include Disney Plus titles alongside what was already offered: titles from Netflix and Amazon Prime. Filters are available for Disney Plus’ entire Marvel library as well as recent additions, such as Hamilton and Mulan.

The service allows families to filter out coarse language, sexuality and violent content. The filters can be customized.

ClearPlay’s announcement about Disney Plus titles came just a few weeks after it said it was adding titles from Netflix. Its website says “families can enjoy the show together” without the “scenes and language you don’t want” your family to see.

ClearPlay CEO Matt Jarman told Christian Headlines the service is popular for titles that are PG or PG-13 and need only minor changes to become kid-friendly.

“ClearPlay works best for popular movies that are already ‘pretty close’ to being family-friendly,” Jarman told Christian Headlines. “We are the solution for when your neighbor can ‘almost’ recommend a movie, but then adds the caveat, ‘Well, there is this one scene, though.’ There is also a lot of demand for movies that families may watch without filtering, but really really like having…

On Wednesday, Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine signed a new bill into law prohibiting public officials from shutting down houses of worship across the state despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The legislation, House Bill 272, will go into effect in mid-December in the state, Cleveland.com reports.

In March, DeWine stated that he did not plan on calling for houses of worship to be shut down, he did, however, postpone the state’s March primaries, a move that earned him widespread criticism. Under the new legislation, postponement of elections will not be permitted.

Sen. Terry Johnson, a co-sponsor of the bill, explained to Cincinnati Fox affiliate WXIX that he is thankful that the state is protecting religious freedom unlike other states that have imposed forced closures on religious communities.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen several states encroach on Americans’ First Amendment right of worship and assembly, disregarding it completely by forcing the closure of places of worship and religious institutions,” the state Senator said. “While I am thankful that no such order was imposed in Ohio, this amendment is a preemptive step should we ever find ourselves in this situation again.”

According to the Huffington Post, the vote was mainly split between both Republicans and Democrats in the State legislature, where the majority of Democrats were in opposition to…

In an “us vs. them” culture, Christians are called to embody the gentleness of Christ, which is the “secret weapon” to diffusing anger, easing tension, and defeating evil and injustice. 

That’s according to Scott Sauls, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, who in an interview with The Christian Post, said he’s “concerned” by the number of professing Christians “caught up in partisan bickering.”

“It’s easy to conflate our Christianity with our politics as if the two were one and the same,” he said. “The reality is, neither the political left nor the right is clean in terms of their representation of the Kingdom of God.”

Sauls, who previously served as the lead and preaching pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City alongside Pastor Tim Keller, encouraged Christians to “become more nuanced in our political engagement, become willing to critique the party that we align with, and also affirm the party that we don’t align with.”

“In some respects, we ought to feel politically homeless,”…

The organization, Evangelicals for Social Action, is changing the group’s name to Christians for Social Action, the organization announced this week.

According to The Christian Post, in a statement, the Christian scholar-activist group says the word “evangelical” has become a polarizing term.

“Today the word ‘evangelical’ in the popular mind has largely political connotations,” Ron Sider, the organization’s founder and president emeritus, said in a statement.

“For significant numbers of people, it signifies a right-wing political movement irrevocably committed to Donald Trump. Many young people raised in evangelical churches are turning away in disgust–abandoning evangelical churches and even sometimes the Christian faith itself. And the larger society thinks of evangelicals not as people committed to Jesus Christ and the biblical gospel but as pro-Trump political activists.”

Sider said he hopes the change will help the group welcome more people.

“We believe it will help us win a listening ear with more people. And it certainly will avoid people refusing to even take a minute to see who we are because they see a word that for many people immediately signals political folks,” he said.

The change comes as popular evangelical Christians have become more vocal on a select number of issues, Sider says.

“They identified more and more with the politically conservative part of…

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Friday, September 18, 2020

As someone who grew up as “poor white trash” in a blue collar neighborhood in Texas, Matt Chandler, lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, says he understands why some white people would find “white privilege” a “stunningly offensive” term.

The term, which the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center defines as “the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed upon people solely because they are white,” has become a lightning rod as conversations about racial justice ramped up in evangelical circles and the rest of the nation amid ongoing social unrest.

“When you start talking about privilege to someone that had my background, I can get pretty offended by that pretty quick simply because I knew what it was like to be poor white trash. And for you to say I had some special kind of privilege when I was growing up would be stunningly offensive to me,” Chandler explained Wednesday during an episode of Exponential’s candid conversations.

And he isn’t the only one.

Just over a…

Former NFL player and outspoken Christian Benjamin Watson came out in solidarity for Christian Nigerians who are being persecuted in Africa in an appearance for the Awareness Campaign For Nigeria. The campaign, which featured prominent advocates of defending people’s rights both in the U.S. and globally, held a Facebook Live press conference where Watson spoke.

“I am here for many of the same reasons that everyone else is,” Watson explained. “I can remember several years ago it being impressed upon me that the Body of Christ here in the United States is dealing with our own issues. But compared to what is going on around the world in many respects, we need people that stand up for those who are being persecuted. At some time, it may be us.”

Citing Rwanda, he reminded listeners that, at one point in time, Rwanda needed people to step in to defend the innocent from being slaughtered, and few answered the call until there was mass carnage.

“I am someone who cares about justice. Violations of justice and human rights are a threat to all of us, what happened in Rwanda, where we didn’t speak early enough and 800,000 people died. What should we do?” He asked listeners.

The International Committee On Nigeria, who runs the initiative, was created to be a voice for Nigerians who are being persecuted. The goal of the organization is to help Nigerians reach their true…

It started as a routine traffic stop in Virginia. State trooper M.W. Deus was pulling over a driver for speeding, but when he approached the vehicle, he smelled marijuana. The trooper asked the man to leave his vehicle and Deus searched it. The driver was in full compliance and sat on the guardrail. But when Deus went back to his police car, the driver went back to his vehicle and threw something into the woods. When Deus noticed this, he began walking back toward the car. That was when the driver punched him and a fight broke out.

As it appeared the driver was winning the fight, two men, from different cars, came to the aid of the officer. One was trained in jiu-jitsu, and he came over with the other man and subdued the driver, potentially saving the cop’s life. 

During the fight, the driver was reportedly trying to unholster the officer’s gun. This was the moment the two men stepped in to help. “I jumped on the guy’s back and put him in a rear-naked choke, [a jiu-jitsu move], until we fell back over the guardrail and I could see he didn’t have the gun anymore. I then held him until backup arrived,” Adam said.

Jake, the other man coming to the officer’s aid, said “The subject was doing everything he could to get the officer’s gun off his belt. That would have been a life-changing moment had that occurred… That was divine intervention and in my opinion, the Lord…

A federal judge this week ordered a Tennessee school district and its employees not to participate in or promote religion at school activities after the district acknowledged it had allowed certain religious expressions in violation of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw issued a permanent injunction Monday against the Smith County School System against school-led prayer and school-endorsed religious expression. The order was part of a “consent decree” – an injunction agreed to by the district.

Crenshaw’s order came one year after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee sued the school on behalf of two families who have children within the system.

“Families should be making the decisions about whether and how to educate their children about religion, not public schools,” said Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee. “Today’s consent decree ensures that the Smith County schools will be focused on providing a quality education to all students, regardless of their religious beliefs.

The judge wrote that the school acknowledged it had allowed:

– The delivery of prayer over the public-address system at events such as graduations and football games, accompanied by requests for attendees to bow their heads and pray.

– Coaches to participate in prayer with students before and after sporting events.

– The…

CBS sportscaster James Brown says in a new interview that sports can play a role in addressing racial injustice throughout the country but that the “Word of God is still the answer” to the nation’s problems.

Brown, a Christian, is the host of CBS’ The NFL Today and Showtime’s Inside The NFL, and has hosted the Super Bowl on television a record-tying nine times. He is better known among fans as “J.B.”

He made the comments to James Romano of the Sports Spectrum podcast in late August, prior to the NFL launching its season.

Addressing fans who say they don’t want to hear about injustice issues during sports, Brown said, “We wouldn’t have to worry about these issues and [could] just turn to sports for a nice diversion if in fact these issues weren’t persistent and ingrained in our history, etc. So that to me is burying your head in the sand, because it has impacted this generation. … This is a human issue.”

Brown referenced times throughout history when sports collided with real-world issues, such as when the South African rugby team helped heal racial divides. He also mentioned Jackie Robinson and Fritz Pollard, who helped break racial barriers in Major League Baseball and the NFL, respectively.

Later, Brown added, “At the end of the day, the Word of God is still the answer.”

“The real progress has been made whenever there was love, respect for…

Eric Trump, President Donald Trump’s second son, was one of the featured speakers at an outdoor Evangelicals For Trump rally in Cummings, Georgia on Tuesday.

According to Christian Premier News, Eric Trump told attendees how God has bestowed favor on his father throughout his first presidential term and that “God got us here.”

“I really believe that he was a chosen person. In the Bible, it’s always an imperfect person, and my father has said things that have gotten him in trouble time and time again,” the president’s son said.

“I really believe my father was put here for a reason. I believe it was because of a higher deity, entity, I really believe that. I believe it is why the Evangelical community has rallied around him,” he added.

Trump noted that faith played a contributing factor in ensuring his father’s success during the 2016 election.

President Trump’s senior faith advisor Paula White also spoke at the evangelical rally as she touted Trump’s achievements.

Also present was Rev. Tony Suarez, an evangelical advisor, who noted how Hispanic Americans have prospered under President Trump.

A prayer section at Tuesday’s rally opened up with 2 Chronicles 7:14 which reads, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive…