J-4 PEOPLE-FILES
Tony Jones - Rachel Jordon-Wolf - Rick Joyner - Mike Judge -
==tony jones======
Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author. Jones grew up near Edina, Minnesota, and graduated from Edina High School in 1990. He later graduated from Dartmouth College and attended both Fuller Theological Seminary and Princeton University, pursuing a doctorate from the latter. While attending Fuller Theological, Jones returned to his childhood church—Colonial Church in Edina—and worked there as a youth pastor for seven years before leaving for his doctoral work at Princeton. Tony Jones is the author of Did God Kill Jesus? (HarperOne, 2015) and an award-winning outdoors writer. He’s written a dozen books, including The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, hosts the Reverend Hunter Podcast, and has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary since 2011.
Tony Jones
I’m currently at the front-end of a three-year project with Ryan Burge, in which we are running the largest-ever survey of nones in America early next year, followed by two years of study and distribution of the results. (“Nones” are Americans who affiliate with no organized religion — it’s the fastest-growing category on the religious landscape, and comprises over 40 percent of Americans under the age of 40.)
Organized religion is hemorrhaging adherents, one of the most significant demographic shifts in our country right now. And churches are (rightly) worried.
--Tony Jones; Tony's Field Notes; Jesus Tatoos 11/30/23
Organized religion is hemorrhaging adherents, one of the most significant demographic shifts in our country right now. And churches are (rightly) worried.
--Tony Jones; Tony's Field Notes; Jesus Tatoos 11/30/23
==Rachel jordon-wolf======
Jan 23, 2023: Christian Today: 'The Church is not in decline,' says missiologist
Widespread belief in the resurrection of Jesus is an opportunity for the Church, a missiologist has said.
Findings from the Talking Jesus Report published last year revealed that 45 per cent of the UK population believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and according to the people behind the report, that statistic should be encouraging news for churches as it can serve as a stepping stone for evangelism and conversations about faith within the wider community.
Dr Rachel Jordon-Wolf, Executive Director of HOPE Together, told church leaders gathered for The Briefing in London on Thursday that the resurrection is "key" and "a lot of people have some level of belief in it and we have to help them with that".
Widespread belief in the resurrection of Jesus is an opportunity for the Church, a missiologist has said.
Findings from the Talking Jesus Report published last year revealed that 45 per cent of the UK population believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and according to the people behind the report, that statistic should be encouraging news for churches as it can serve as a stepping stone for evangelism and conversations about faith within the wider community.
Dr Rachel Jordon-Wolf, Executive Director of HOPE Together, told church leaders gathered for The Briefing in London on Thursday that the resurrection is "key" and "a lot of people have some level of belief in it and we have to help them with that".
==Rick Joyner========= |
Rick Joyner worked part-time in a Raleigh jazz club after leaving the Navy but quit when, as he put it, he "found out there is a God." He subsequently moved to Jackson, Mississippi and founded a charter air company. Rick Joyner and his wife, Julie, founded MorningStar Ministries in Jackson in 1983. In the mid 1990s Joyner was one of the all-male members of the "International Advisors-At-Large" to the evangelical Christian women's organization Aglow International. In 1997 Joyner purchased 320 acres of land in Wilkes County, North Carolina near Moravian Falls and moved the headquarters of MorningStar there from Charlotte. By 1999 his "religious empire" was grossing $8 million dollars a year and was denied a religious property tax exemption by the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Department director John C. Bailey said that "[w]ith MorningStar there are a lot of tracts with costly improvements that affect tax liability significantly...If we did not limit exemptions, it would increase the burden on people, like you and me, who own homes that are not affiliated with any group." MorningStar appealed the Department of Revenue's denial. Joyner is an adherent of Dominion Theology, which advocates the involvement in and eventual takeover of civil government by Christians
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Apr 10, 2015: Right Wing Watch: Rick Joyner: God Is Using Radical Islam To Punish The World For 'Perversion And Abortion'
On today's "Prophetic Perspective on Current Events" program, Rick Joyner declared that God is using radical Islam to punish the world for accepting "perversion and abortion." Sept 18, 2014: Wolf Tracks: Rick Joyner on Ebola No scripture supports the following statement by Rick Joyner …“I think everyone of God’s people are supposed to be able to enter into the heavenly realm and then to return with evidence of heavens reality and authority over everything on earth….” Sept 12, 2014: Right Wing Watch: Rick Joyner Says Some Christians Can Cure Ebola Simply Through Their Presence On yesterday's "Prophetic Perspective on Current Events" program, Rick Joyner recounted the eight hours he spent in Heaven recently, as well as the regular face-to-face encounters he has been having with Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, and the Prophet Elijah. Mar 28, 2014: Bartholomews Notes On Religion: Rick Joyner and the Return of Mike Warnke From the website of MorningStar, the ministry of Rick Joyner: |
May 26, 2023: MorningStar Ministries founder Rick Joyner suffered a series of strokes. Acting President of MorningStar Ministries and Lead Pastor of MorningStar Church Chris Reed made the announcement on Pentecost Sunday: "Our founder, Rick Joyner, had a stroke. It seemed that he had a succession of mini-strokes that, after the MRI was confirmed, he had a stroke on the right side of his brain. He's in the hospital and Julia is of course with him and his family," Reed told the MorningStar congregation. "He has experienced some measure of loss of feeling on the left side, and to what extent or degree that is [unknown]. ...He has increased movement now on his left side [since Friday]," continues Reed. |
Feb 6, 2014: Right Wing Watch Reported: Televangelist Rick Joyner is convinced that a second revolution or a military coup are the only options left to fight President Obama, who he claims in his latest “Special Bulletin” is threatening government officials — including Chief Justice John Roberts — with blackmail.
1999: Joseph R. Chambers posted at Deception in the Church: : The first time I picked up material written by Rick Joyner I immediately sensed the spirit of darkness and deception. Reading his material is similar to reading New Age materials. His approach is to take anything in Scripture and make it mean anything that suits his theological aims. There is no faithfulness to established facts of interpretation. It's a smorgasbord of ideas loosely connected with the generous use of out-of-text Scripture to prove his point.
==mike judge======
December 18, 2024: Judge wrote: Official data from the Canadian authorities shows that medically assisted deaths reached a record high in the country, accounting for one in 20 deaths. According to statistics released in December by Health Canada, about 4.7 per cent of Canadians who died in 2023 received MAID, or Medical Assistance in Dying. This is a 15.8 per cent increase compared to 2022. In other words, once you unlock the door to this, there’s no telling how wide it will open.
