A man who survived the 2016 shooting at an Orlando nightclub says he is no longer gay.

Luis Javier Ruiz said in an interview recently with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s “GPS: God. People. Stories” that he repented and was changed after the shooting.

Ruiz said he was raised in the church before churches knew how to minister to homosexuals. Instead, he kept his secret until finally coming out to his family at the end of high school.

He says his family was listening to the radio where someone was saying homosexuals were “an abomination” and were “going to hell.”

“It was bad,” Ruiz said. “And we got into an argument about it … and I just ended it with ‘Mom, you know what? Your son is gay. How about that?”

Ruiz graduated from high school and joined the armed forces where he served for 15 years. He did not reveal his sexuality to the military. After his service, he moved to Florida and became involved with a church. However, he also became part of the Orlando LGBT community.

On June 11, 2016, his birthday, he went with friends to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Early June 12, the shooting started.

The shooter, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people that night. Mateen was shot and killed by police.

“While this is all going on, I’m thinking ‘I’m about to die, I’m about to go to Hell. Like, why did I even come [to Pulse],'” Ruiz said…

Amid concerns that the office of priesthood attracts narcissists, the Church of England wants all trainee priests to go through personality tests before their induction.

The denomination is “considering the use of psychological assessment as part of the process of discernment for those seeking ordination in the Church of England,” The Telegraph quotes Julian Hubbard, director of the Church’s Ministry Division, as saying.

The Church’s bishops will consider undertaking an exercise next year to find ways to analyze the personalities of new priests so that the denomination knows what kind of people it’s attracting.

According to Mark Vernon, a psychotherapist and former Church of England priest, narcissists are attracted by positions of power to “lord it over others.”

“The church offers a particular route which would appeal to some who like the entitlement — you’re called a reverend, you sit in high places, you wear special clothes, you’re seen as authoritative, you have captive audiences, you’re spiritually elite — whatever it might be, people get drawn to that way of trying to cope with that sense of self-dissatisfaction,” Vernon tells the newspaper.

NBA all-star guard Stephen Curry revealed a few more details about his Sony deal in a new interview with Variety, saying it will produce family-friendly content and that he doesn’t care if people view him as “corny.”

Financial details weren’t announced when the deal was unveiled in April, although it was known that the partnership would focus on three areas: faith, family and sports. The deal between Sony Pictures Entertainment and his production company, Unanimous Media, will spotlight box office movies, television shows and video games.

“I don’t mind being called corny,” Curry, an outspoken Christian, told Variety. “I’m comfortable with who I am.”

Variety reported that Unanimous has promoted ideas to Sony that cover a wide variety of entertainment, including “drama, comedy, unscripted, TV movies and miniseries.”

Curry’s entertainment team is developing “concepts” tied to Christian holidays and also promoting an animated Bible story, Variety reported. Another concept is something called Church Hoppers, which would be a comedy “about a jilted groom who takes his pals along with him as he navigates the church scene in search of a new bride,” according to Variety.

Jeffrey Godsick, executive vice president of brand partnerships and global strategy at Sony, said it was “very important” to ink Curry to a deal.

“He chose…

A Kentucky pastor who purged the rolls of his church of members who he says have been attending church poorly, is now coming under fire for how the now fuming ex-members say they were delisted.

Cave City Baptist Senior Pastor Ryan Broers told WBKO he was trying to send the delinquent members of his church a “wake-up call” when he sent them delisting letters this week.

“A lot of the people that the letters were sent to are not attending church anywhere, and this was kind of a wake-up call to them ‘you’ve broken fellowship with God, you’ve broken fellowship with this church, you need to come back and repent and get your relationship with Him.'” Broers said.

Samantha Esters, who had been attending the church since she was a kid, told WBKO however that the only message she got from the way she was delisted is to never return to the church again.

“I don’t ever want to go back to that church,” said Esters after receiving a letter informing her of her delisting that was sent out on July 16.

A copy of the letter was posted to Facebook by Cave City resident Jason Pedigo.

The letter signed by Broers and Student & Worship Pastor Steven Wilson, point out to the members how much the church cherished their…