This Week In the Churches of Christ

A devastating tornado in Tennessee killed numerous Church of Christ members, including a young couple and their child. Tragic.

Oklahoma Christian University fired a man for leading a "racist" ice breaker, despite the man's intention to use the ice breaker to fight against racism. The university's president relentlessly virtue signaled against the former employee. The man's real crime appears to have been his identity as a strait white male.

Christian college students studying in Italy were evacuated from the Covid-19 hot spot. It's been speculated the Italian outbreak resulted from a large population of Chinese factory workers in the area.

Luke Taylor, at 2BeLikeChrist, reminded us that we have a responsibility to pray for the Democrats despite their often anti-Christian agenda.

Daniel McCoy explained why Youtubers Rhett and Link's deconversion from Christianity "feels so right." The two ex-Christians have made peace with their ex-Christian society: "Their 'brave,' new worldview is an exact copy of contemporary Western progressivism. Once having a worldview that chafed against their culture, they now find themselves in symmetry with it. No wonder they feel relief!"

Jack Wilkie wrote at Focus Press that Christian women should follow the: "traditional 'neck-to-knee, not skin tight' [modesty] standard that's been used for both men and women in the church for decades." He did not defend his standard theologically or historically. Where is this standard in the Bible? Where does the Bible connect modesty and sexuality? Why has the standard of modesty fluctuated so much across time and place?

Church of Christ Reddit debated the "Scriptural arguments for opening the Christian assembly to non-member visitors?" and who inherited Peter's keys after he died?

Wayne Jackson discussed the Chistological implications of Jesus' first recorded words: "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?"

Apologetics Press has released the new AP Defending the Faith Study Bible.