Day: August 5, 2020

Cultivating Christlike Virtue in a Virtue-Signaling Age by DUSTIN CROWE for The Gospel Coalition In You Are What You Love, James K. A. Smith critiques American evangelicalism for equating knowledge with spiritual maturity. What we think is often prized above all, leading to “bobblehead Christianity.” Like the guy at the gym with big biceps and tiny calves, though, when we have inflated heads and shriveled hearts, our spiritual training needs correction. As debates rage on in American churches related to COVID-19, church openings, racial injustices, politics, and the government’s power, one symptom of our reverence for rationality but collapse of…

Billy Graham Statue to Replace That of White Supremacist in US Capitol by RELIGION NEWS SERVICE/YONAT SHIMRON for Charisma News A life-sized statue of the Rev. Billy Graham will be installed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection sometime next year, replacing a statue of a white supremacist that both the state of North Carolina and the U.S. House want removed. Last week, a North Carolina legislative committee approved a 2-foot model of the statue depicting the famous evangelist who died in 2018. The sculptor, Chas Fagan, will now begin working…