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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Recent content by PloverWing

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    Take a stand on political violence

    Just to make sure this doesn't stand unchallenged, I'll voice the standard objection. Trans and gay people do not pose a danger to children merely by virtue of their trans/gay status. I understand if your church does not permit trans or gay members; that's a common policy that many churches...
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    Great Tribulation and the "Climate" Agenda

    How do you know it is God's voice talking to you about climate change and the state of the banks?
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    False Preachers/Teachers

    We get "who is a false teacher" threads in CF every so often, and I think these posts have clarified for me why these threads make me feel uncomfortable. People aren't true or false; statements are true or false. "Pastor Smith" isn't true or false, because he is a person, not a truth claim...
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    Trump calls Ilhan Omar a 'disgraceful, disgusting person' for response to Charlie Kirk's murder

    Mr. President, Representative Omar: You both have a tendency to engage in inflammatory speech. Please put down your microphones and observe a moment of silence while the country buries Mr. Kirk. Thank you.
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    This is the scariest verse in the bible for believers

    What I hear, as I listen to people's stories, is that different people have different kinds of journeys in the Christian faith. For some, there's a moment of sudden change, like I'm hearing in your story. For others, it's a slow, decades-long process of gradual growth and learning and...
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    This is the scariest verse in the bible for believers

    This, I like very much. This is your own, genuine story, your own witness to the power of God.
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    Charlie Kirk's Opinions Didn't Deserve Him Being Murdered

    I'd rather stick with your headline: his opinions didn't deserve him being murdered. I didn't follow his radio show or his YouTube stuff. News sources have told me that he was a conservative political activist, and I'm pretty liberal, so I assume there are things he and I disagreed about...
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    Something extremely strange has happened to me but I don't know how to explain it. Can someone please help?

    Ask a chaplain or pastor (especially if you have a pastor who's known you a long time), but also ask a physician. Some brain injuries, strokes, and other physical ailments can have symptoms like what you've described.
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    Chatting with a street evangelist

    @david p : I'm really not following you. Do you mean that we shouldn't talk to street evangelists? Or do you mean that we're not bound by the Mosaic law? Or, the opposite, that we are bound by the Mosaic law? I'm seriously not understanding what you're trying to say. Sure, it's...
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    British royal family set to have first Catholic funeral in centuries

    As a small side note, the 1975 illness was rubella, not measles, according to the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/world/europe/duchess-of-kent-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.jELW.3XerexMytZ8G&smid=url-share). I am glad she found a spiritual home in the Catholic faith, and I...
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    Take a stand on political violence

    All of these acts of violence you've listed are inexcusable. Whether the target is my political ally or my political opponent or the mayor of some city I've never been to, assassinations and kidnapping and assault are terribly, terribly wrong.
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    This is the scariest verse in the bible for believers

    No, I'm trying to describe something else. Ah well. Maybe I'll think of better words later in the week to describe what I have in mind. I'm not convinced that the "Way of the Master" is really patterned after Jesus' approach to people. I will say, though, that Ray Comfort has been a...
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    This is the scariest verse in the bible for believers

    The option I would choose, if it were on the list, would be something like "Fear that evangelism (in the style I was trained in as a young Baptist) will drive the person farther away from God". The evangelism training I received as a young Baptist was in the Bill Bright / D. James Kennedy / Ray...
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    How do you experience your faith ? How do you understand it personally

    As @SuperCow has noted, you are not (I think) asking about the spirituality of 21st-century American Christians, but rather about the spirituality of medieval European Christians. One approach that helps me learn about other faiths is to read the prayers that other people use. With that in...
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    what Bible (or 2 or 3 translations to read)?

    I generally use the NRSV for study and the REB for reading long passages. I have a Greek New Testament, but my Greek is still weak, so I have to keep grammar books and dictionaries handy.