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Tuesday, May 05, 2026
Come On Judges - SERVE RIGHTEOUSNESS!
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A federal court in Washington rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Christian couple who say they were denied an unrestricted foster license by the state because they wouldn't adhere to LGBT ideology. CP.
I am feeling exceptionally uncomfortable. At least GAFCON is offering some hope!
King Charles III, incoming archbishop of Canterbury push 'diversity,' immigration on Christmas.
King Charles III and the incoming archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Sarah Mullally, delivered Christmas messages that emphasized diversity and immigration as the U.K. faces simmering tensions over the issue.
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The king opened his address by highlighting his historic meeting with Pope Leo XIV in October, during which he participated in an ecumenical worship service in the Sistine Chapel that featured both Anglican and Roman Catholic liturgy.
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"A few weeks ago, the queen and I were delighted to make a state visit to the Vatican, where we prayed with Pope Leo in a historic moment of spiritual unity," he said.
The event marked the first time a reigning British monarch has attended such a service since the English Reformation nearly 500 years ago.
While some claimed that the service was a symbolic healing of the rift from the Reformation, which manifested politically in England when King Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534, others found it to be an affront to historic English Protestantism and indicative of the king's syncretism that also seeks to appease Islam.
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During his Christmas address, King Charles III went on to emphasize the importance of the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee Year theme, "Pilgrims of Hope."
"Pilgrimage is a word less used today, but it has particular significance for our modern world, and especially at Christmas. It is about journeying forward into the future while also journeying back to remember the past and learn from its lessons," he said, going on to praise the sacrifices of those who fought for Great Britain in the World Wars, before appearing to pivot back to present-day issues.
"Journeying is a constant theme of the Christmas story. The Holy Family made a journey to Bethlehem and arrived homeless, without proper shelter. The Wise Men made a pilgrimage from the East to worship at the cradle of Christ; and the shepherds journeyed from field to town in search of Jesus, the Savior of the World. In each case, they journeyed with others, and relied on the companionship and kindness of others," he said.
"Through physical and mental challenge, they found an inner strength. To this day, in times of uncertainty, these ways of living are treasured by all the great faiths and provide us with deep wells of hope; of resilience in the face of adversity, peace through forgiveness, simply getting to know our neighbors, and by showing respect to one another, creating new friendships."
"Indeed, as our world seems to spin ever faster, our journey may pause to quieten our minds — in T.S. Eliot's words — 'at the still point of the turning world,' and allow ourselves to renew."
"In this, with the great diversity of our communities, we can find the strength to ensure that right triumphs over wrong. It seems to me that we need to cherish the values of compassion and reconciliation, the way our Lord lived and died," he said.
The king later reiterated his admiration for different faiths, suggesting they have much in common.
"As I meet people of different faiths, I find it enormously encouraging to hear how much we have in common, a shared longing for peace and a deep respect for all life. If we could find time in our journey through life to think on these virtues, we could all make the future more hopeful," he said.
The king's Christmas address was met with mixed reactions on social media, with some praising him for mentioning Jesus Christ and calling for unity, while others criticized him for promoting "diversity" in the wake of mass migration that is putting a strain in the economy and public services, and has sparked protests that have roiled the U.K. this year, including the "Unite the Kingdom" march in London that drew more than 100,000 people in September.
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"King Charles used his Christmas message to gush about Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and the 'diversity of our communities,'" said Connor Tomlinson, a U.K.-based Gen Z political commentator. "He appealed to the Boomer mythology about the Second World War and 'our values' to overcome 'division at home.' Give it a rest, it's Christmas. Today is about Christ, our traditions, and not foreign religions or liberal platitudes. Take our side, for a change."
U.K.-based journalist Joseph Robertson criticized the king for "leaning into the 'diversity is our strength' bollocks — almost verbatim."
"Delivered without a flicker of self-awareness. Our Christmas message to the monarch is very simple — you stand for nothing. Least of all your subjects," he added.
Mullally, who currently serves as bishop of London and will be formally installed as the first female archbishop of Canterbury in January, delivered a Christmas sermon at the historic St. Paul's Cathedral that also drew on the Nativity story to warn that the debate over immigration in the U.K. has grown too divisive, according to The Guardian.
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"Joy is born exactly where despair expects to triumph. As joy breaks through in our lives it gives us the opportunity to become people who make room," she said. "Room in our homes. Room in our churches. Room in our public conversations and in the attitudes we hold."
Mullally went on to imply that those concerned over the scale of immigration to the U.K. are exhibiting the same attitude that shut the Holy Family out of the guest rooms in Bethlehem.
Britain's new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, Sarah Mullally, poses for a photograph in The Corona Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral, southeast England on Oct. 3, 2025, following the announcement of her posting. | BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images"The joy asks us to allow our lives to be interrupted by the needs of others, just as the people of Bethlehem were interrupted," she said.
"This insight matters because our own society carries uncertainties that can wear us down. Many feel the weight of economic pressure. Some feel pushed to the margins."
"Our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us," she added.
After the announcement in October that Mullally would serve as the Church of England's next ceremonial head, the GAFCON movement of orthodox Anglicans announced its intention to renounce the spiritual leadership of the archbishop of Canterbury and launch the Global Anglican Communion founded on the Bible alone.
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The impending installation of Mullally, who has openly affirmed abortion and homosexuality, prompted some in the global Anglican Communion to claim that the Church of England has been given over to apostasy.
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Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com CP.
Suspension Is WHOLLY Inadequate!
Cambridge fails to suspend students who threatened to kill classmate over Israel trip.
Undergraduate who joined Gaza fact-finding trip says he feared for his safety and had to move out of college.
But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College. DT.
Come On You Reds!
That’s why what is going on in Ireland’s ecology, with another small reddish creature, is exciting. Here the native pine marten, long persecuted, has started to return. The pine marten is like a toothy malevolent stoat that hunts squirrels. It is, on the face of it, bad squirrel news.
But as it returned, something odd happened. So too did the beleaguered reds. A predator of the reds helped the reds. Why? Because they are wise to it. Reds and pine martens co-evolved. Greys didn’t. So, naive to this hell-weasel, greys get eaten. Then pine marten-savvy reds scamper, warily, into the gap.
In England, too, pine martens are regaining old haunts. Will reds follow? In a delicate ecological balance, small ecological differences matter. In Ireland greys, particularly in urban areas, will always persist. But for reds the pine marten may offer a way it can persist, too. And, if we ever pursue proper eradication, it’ll mean fewer hammers. Times.
Although I Rarely Touch Beer, I Still Found This Most Disturbing.
A pint of beer costing less than two shillings (\(2/\text{-}\) or \(10\text{p}\) in decimal) in 1968 should cost approximately £2.10 to £2.50 in 2026 to maintain the same purchasing power, according to historical inflation data. [1, 2, 3]
Inflation Breakdown (1968–2026)
- 1968 Cost: A pint of beer was roughly \(1\text{s } 8\text{d}\) to \(2\text{s } 6\text{d}\) (approx. \(8\text{p}\)–\(12.5\text{p}\)).
- Inflation Calculation: Prices in the UK have risen by over \(2,100\%\) between 1968 and 2026.
- The 2026 Equivalent: A \(10\text{p}\) (\(2\text{/}\text{-}\)) price in 1968 equates to a value of approximately \(£2.25\) in 2026, though specific CPI calculations may vary. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Contextual Factors
- Actual Cost vs. Equivalent: While the strict inflation-adjusted price is around \(£2.10\)–\(£2.50\), the average cost of a pint in the UK in 2026 is significantly higher (often reported around \(£5\)–\(£7\)), indicating that beer prices have risen much faster than general inflation.
- Income Adjustment: When factoring in average earnings, a pint in 1968 was relatively much cheaper compared to the average weekly salary than a pint is in 2026. [1, 2, 3]
Monday, May 04, 2026
Christian Concern - Who Suffers When The Gospel Is Criminalised?
Our Chief Executive Andrea Williams writes about an entire church community facing criminalisation for their street ministry. This piece was originally published in Christian Today
In Colchester, one of Britain’s oldest recorded settlements, an entire church community is facing the possibility of being criminalised for their street ministry.
The church, Bread of Life Community Church in Clacton-on-Sea, has been issued a Community Protection Notice that risks criminalising the entire church, regardless of their personal involvement, for preaching the gospel in nearby Colchester town centre.
Over the last decade, we have defended hundreds of church ministries and street preachers who have been censored for their outreach ministries.
And the frequency of these cases is only increasing.
The message is clear: authorities, both in Colchester and beyond, are curtailing the sort of Christianity that might disrupt our complacent culture.
And the gospel has always been disruptive.
A Christianity without evangelism?
Whether it is preaching the gospel, providing food to the homeless, or simply offering educational resources to those interested in Christianity, church ministries that reach into the heart of local communities are vital to the spread of the gospel.
Jesus calls us to be disciples who go out and make more disciples.
You cannot have Christianity without evangelism.
And you cannot have evangelism without going to where the people are.
But by this kind of action, there is a real danger that councils will seek to confine this kind of public proclamation of our faith to within the walls of the church.
In Colchester, it started with claims that the church was being too noisy. But the public space protection order in place does not ban amplification. Council wardens were enforcing rules on this church’s ministry that didn’t even exist.
Many preachers have to deal with these kinds of tensions. But this case has gone one step further by restricting the very message of the gospel.
The church is accused of using ‘religious messaging’, particularly mentioning ‘hell’, that could cause ‘harassment, alarm and distress’.
All their outreach activity is livestreamed and recorded. Anyone is free to look through these records. They will not see a church that is aggressive or harassing. They will see a very typical street outreach ministry focusing on the gospel, salvation by faith, the uniqueness of Jesus, the authority of Scripture and personal testimony.
Heaven and hell are mentioned in this gospel context. And of course, people often react strongly to the message of the gospel – sin and redemption, salvation for our sins and rescue from hell.
The council is greatly overstepping its authority in seeking to control the gospel message of eternal salvation; of life-giving hope. This is the gospel and it belongs on our streets.
Sharing truths about eternal destiny is an act of love
But even if the church were causing alarm, we must understand that not all ‘alarm’ is ‘harassment’.
Sometimes the truth, especially the truth about our state as sinners deserving God’s judgement, distresses and alarms people. If the gospel is true, people have every right to be alarmed by it.
Christians cannot claim to love others and yet not tell them the truth of the gospel – even if that truth might offend or distress them.
As the renowned magician and staunch atheist Penn Jillette said: “If you believe that there’s a heaven and a hell, and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life, and you think that it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward … how much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytise? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?”
But the kind of alarm this evangelism might cause is very different to inciting panic or creating undue and dangerous alarm in a public area.
The glory of the gospel is that this urgent message never ends with alarm: through Christ’s death on the cross, we can offer people a solution to this problem – a way of salvation and a restored relationship with God.
Alarm over sin that then leads to biblical repentance, salvation and lasting life-giving change can only be beneficial, both to the individual and to the community.
Word and action must go hand in hand
Proclaiming the word of the gospel goes alongside living out the gospel.
Bread of Life does this by helping people with practical needs, such as clothes and food.
Councils and local government love these aspects of churches’ ministries. They need to understand that our actions and our beliefs go hand in hand.
If we only have actions, without the life-giving message of repentance and salvation in the gospel, the Church is promoting the social gospel – no gospel at all.
But if all we do is speak the gospel, without allowing those truths to permeate every area of our life and service – motivating us to serve the needy, both with physical and spiritual assistance – we are nothing more than intellectual ‘Christians’ who are willing to speak for truth, but not to live for it.
As James so clearly warns: “So also, faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works… You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone… For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead” (James 2:17-18, 24, 26).
Many street outreach initiatives combine ministry to the needy and the homeless (such as offering free hot meals or compassionate support) with sharing the message of Christianity.
Similarly, pro-life groups, often Christian-led, are often the first to provide practical support to women in crisis pregnancies.
They are proving their words through their actions.
And this is why it is so important that we defend the ministries targeted by restrictions in public places.
Bringing hope to those who need it, both on the streets and in our communities, is a beautiful picture of the multi-faceted nature of the Christian life and the change that our salvation works in us.
Which truly brings people hope – Islam or Christianity?
Yet, while Christian street preachers and outreach ministries are increasingly being restricted and censored, Islam is being ushered in to take the place of Christianity in the public sphere.
In 2021, the Adhan (the Islamic Call to Prayer) was broadcast from Tower Bridge to mark the end of Ramadan.
In March this year, the Trafalgar Square Iftar saw the mass ritualistic Islamic prayers in public, which many have rightly called an act of Islamist domination.
From Iftars being held in Cathedrals to our King issuing a Ramadan message whilst simultaneously neglecting to offer an Easter message, the warning is clear: Islam is welcome in our public spaces, but Christianity is not.
But only one of these religions offers true hope and the salvation and redemption that our broken nation so desperately needs … and it’s not Islam.
Who really pays the price for our silence?
The gospel is what our nation needs the most.
Our politicians may not like it and the public may be offended.
But the fact remains: only the true gospel and genuine repentance will bring restoration, both on an individual and a national level.
When the gospel is criminalised and silenced in public, those who pay the price are the ones who need this hope the most.
Silencing the gospel doesn’t protect people from offence – it just builds yet another barrier to people finding the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ.
In trying to ‘protect the public’ from ‘religious messaging’, our authorities are actually further trapping them in a web of sin and hopelessness while withholding the only solution.
Christ is the only answer to the brokenness and division wreaking havoc in our nation.
And only when we, individually and as a nation, recognise our sin and our rejection of God’s laws, and come in repentance to seek his forgiveness, will we see the healing and restoration we so deeply desire. CC.
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