christian: indeed.hy he was on the farm, we should talk about the policy that rishi sunak is defending, inheritance tax. warning this morning and the telegraph that labor scrap tax breaks that allow farmland to be passed down tax-free. is that a vote winner for the conservatives in these swinging seat they are trying toefend? if you look at an industry like farming, i would be fair in saying it's a core conservative constituency, they have been dismayed by the upheaval following from brexit. clearly, when we were in the eu, they were -- they had problems, but on the other hand the subsidy system gave them big farms in other parts of the country. small farms appear in the southwest, often rely that. they are very uneasy and the national farmers union is telling whoever wins this election, they should be doubling the budget. a lot of disquiet that is still ongoing. those trade deals were struck with new zealand and ox really are. the fear there is thatheap foreign meet produced to lower standards was floo

christian: just a final thought.s some polling, quite different to what we've been talking about with the pressure that is on benjamin netanyahu, but some numbers suggest that his numbers have improved since benny gantz left the war cabinet. in fact, benny gantz's numbers have gone the other way. perhaps the decision he is taken reflects on the growing confidence of the prime minister. >> yes and no. the longer we get away from october 7, the more netanyahu's numbers will stabilize but overall he is still hugely unpopular. once we go to elections at some point, we will see some political jokers being thrown into the political spectrum, such as the former prime minister naftali bennett, joseph common, they will likely join israeli politics. if they do, netanyahu has no future because they will steal most of the votes from likud and benny gantz. once there are elections held, i believe netanyahu's days are absolutely numbered. christian: live pictures coming to us from jerusalem. more protests again tonight. this is in

this time, christiane has a traditional ritual to contend with. although in germany, they're already officially married. that he now has to present himself as a husband publicly before the entire village to bushel navigating to keep motion. hi emma thompson. i read the irene's hometown. she was born and raised felt about 1400 meters on sab del plates. very rural, with a significantly lower income and education level thinking snable ships a lot of people. so when i go to keep motion, it's me going to the mother in law's place to decide to keep our show is definitely not a homecoming. i would say the times and yet feels like a 2nd home these days. right on the slopes of kilimanjaro. the highest mountain in africa at almost 6000 meters lies irene's former hometown. this time the cries of family is intense. any of for 6 weeks. most of that time they stay in irene's mother's house. christiane is passionate about the project. he's working on a partnership between the university clinics of my book and mostly a town at the foot of kilimanjaro. for some ti

this isn't new that christians should be. and why christians are in charge and a nationalist. i'm getting up in years social jesus. but i have read about it. and what do you told his followers? we go into all the world all the world making disciples in every. serve for whatever i have demanded. so most of us biblical texts, particularly teachings of jesus. what did he say. what did he mean? and what does that mean? right? no. and know in the book you i went to a by the way. so i read the bible even though i'm a muslim, i think yo'' learn that. i got the highest grade every semester. religious studies class and you're reading this book. i saw a lot of these passages, these beautiful passages that you brought forth that you are in a way, reinterpreting trying to take it away from white christian nationalism. but i want to stick with christian nationalism specifically. you know why do and before you answer i want to mention this report february. i'm sure you know this report, february 2022, a report was released by baptist joint committee for religious liberty and freedom from re

let's talk about white christian nationalism. we know christianity in the u.s.te number of people including african americans yet african-americans seemed divorced from this strain of christianity. can you tell us more about the racial valence of christian nationalism and its agenda? >> thank you. let me say about christian nationalism is it's a belief that the founders and framers wanted this to be a christian nation, but more than that, what white christian nationalism is saying they want white people to be in power. they are the ones who have the true christianity and if you see to what they want, especially white male leadership, then the country will be saved. the country will be in the right hands. part of this has to do a lot with our history. i talk about this in my book about how white evangelicals especially thought they were the ones who were able to bring gut into this nation. when you hear talk from people like the speaker of the house mike johnson and others talking about america as a christian nation, with they are also saying is they want white m

christian: it's true. is one thing, shouting is another, but we don't want another jo cox or david amos. a lot of people in these constituencies know whether local candidates live, so it is becoming a serious issue we should tackle head-on. i should say before we go to break that after that head-to-head debate tonight, there will be another one on itv involving the leaders of the liberal democrats, s&p,-- snp, and the greens. the lib leader says he is going there to set out his campaign, not to provide commentary on the main debate. he wants to talk about his own policies. lib dems unveiling a new policy on free personal care. plenty of analysis no doubt on that on stage later on tonight on itv. and of course plenty more on the bbc website if you want to look at some of these policies that are now being put out. just enough time to thank mike and charlotte for their contributions. lovely to have your company. thank you for your time. we will go to break and on the other side we will head over to announcer:

the substance of this far-right christian supremacy and this idea that christianity is rooted in the constitution, that we are a christian nation and that courts have some kind of c obligation to protect and indeed elevate christianity above not just other religions but above secular society. and he went on a little bit of a talking tourt earlier this dece where he decried the new moral code of secularism that promoted reproductivepr freedom and lgbt equality, and said that it was an existential threat to christianity. and all of this is reflected very much in his decisions, decisions like one a few years ago where he tried today let pharmacists deny plan-b to patients to whom it was prescribed. not any kind of actual abortion drug but just plan' b. in decisions like hobby lobby where he's allowed corporations to restrict employees access to birth control and to their own health plans. and most recently these abortiob cases most notably dobbs, samuel alito was always going to be the manal to write that opinion overruling roe v. wade. in the coming weeks we're going to get these decis

announcer: and now, "bbc news" christian: hello. i christian fraser.his is "the context." >> these bets should have been placed and it is right that we have this internal process and those inquiries have led to the decision today to suspend these candidates. >> i remain on the ballot for the fourth of july and i hope to secure your support after years of delivery. i committed an error of judgment and i want to reiterate my apology directly to you. >> it's important that all members of the country including as it were the governing classes have to live by the same rules, proper rules. and it sounds as though some people, at least will have broken those rules. >> we seem to that you can't make it up territory. and here's the thing, there is every prospect that there is more to come, and we are just a week and a couple days away from polling day. it's astonishing. ♪ christian: an election dominated by a betting scandal. more police under investigation for placing bets on the timing of the election. conservatives have withdrawn support from two candidates

fundamentalist christians often as a pejorative. i don't think it's often, least in my experience, that often used by the fundamentalists himself. so you've heard it more as a pejorative term. yeah, that's interesting. that lines up with my own experience. i think, today. there are exceptions. i have i have certainly met some proud independent baptists who claim that term fundamentalist but general, it seems to be used as an insult. it's not a label that most christians would want applied to themselves. and i think that history of that connotation, that kind negative sense, which we hear the word today, really became crystallized in one particular historical episode. and that's the infamous or famous, depending on your view scopes trial. there we go. of 1925, the monkey trial that dominated newspaper headlines in the summer of 1925. now, the scopes trial has a certain status in popular culture. you're probably at least vaguely aware of what it. but let me tell you the basic facts of this trial. the state of tennessee passed a law fo

well, gods goes, enslaved christians. the making of the bible my friend candida moss thank you for the work and for contributing to our field in a way that changes engagement and who we required to see and name in biblical texts. early christian history and then also around us. thank you. thank you for

culture really speaking, canadian christians felt muccloser.hey experienced som darwin's discoveries less as a foreign invasion and more as a gradual development in i-their own intellectual culture. and this is another reason why canadian protestantism didn't fracture to same degree and fundamentalists didn't gain same kind of authority. so warfield shared some of the the fundamental goals really. defend the authority of christianity modern world, but they approached that goal very differently and. in canada, it was the burwash types, the moderate. the more compromise minded christians willing to rethink their ideas about scripture perhaps to accommodate new science. it was these guys who retained mainstream evangelicalism while in america. e more aggressive stance that we see in warfield came to be more influential. now i've been describing fundamentalism ais thing so far, you know, really dogma and scientific knowledge. an was that but there is another movemenin conservative protestantism at time that overlaps somewhat withfundamentally zen b

christian: christian: good to talk to you tonight, as ever, thanks for coming on the program.ank you. christian: here is a list of candidates we know so far standing in the claxton constituency. the bbc news website have the complete list was there all confirmed. the last labor leader was a longtime supporter of the campaign for nuclear disarmament food jeremy corbyn but i guess renewing of trident in 2016 and said if he were elected prime minister, he would instruct the u.k. defense chiefs never to use them. keir starmer is different from what he says under his leadership, second or will always come first and, yes prepare to push the button. that qassem something to say at labour's spending plans don't add up. half of the shadow bands were part of that vote against trident into assistant. our political watching. reporter: it's a shine to military service. to do the men who wants to be prime minister wants to convince you the country will be safe in his hands. look at those around him. if you have each served in the forces. they are now the number >> national security is the m

christian nationalism uses the symbols and the language of christianity.ers turns jesus into a mascot for these political claims. what we saw happen on january 6, not just that they, the events leading up to it, the language of christian nationalism. the permission structure. this casting of the political violence in terms of god's will. they were there to fulfill god's will. i believe that kind of language helps unite this group of people who came from so many different areas. unite them with common language, in their minds, you unite them with justification for violence. to see this replicated here in the texas republican party, also in other rings around the country. we have seen this language of the reawaken america torpid michael flynn had lines and i attended one of those events to see firsthand. to understand how this is being used to galvanize a group of people, a group that is often armed and willing to take up arms in the cause of political violence but numb in the name of jesus. that is alarming to christians like myself, who are horrified to se

he really let his christian nationalist flag fly. and, began to embrace not only the rhetoric but also the substance of this far right christian supremacy and this idea that christianity is rooted in the constitution. that we are a christian nation and courts have some kind of obligation to protect and indeed elevate christianity above not just other religions but secular society. and he went on a little bit of a talking tour earlier this decade where he decried the new moral code of secularism. that promoted reproductive freedom and lgbtq equality. they said it presented an existential threat to christianity. he tried to let pharmacists deny plan b to patients to whom it was prescribed. not any kind of actual abortion drug. but just plan b. in decisions like hobby lobby where he has allowed corporations to restrict employees access to birth control. and more recently, and of course, these abortion cases most notably dobbs as lisa documented. sam alito was always going to be the man to write that opinion. but in the coming days and w

christian: i think we lost randy.ng to ask him what sort of deterrent could be put in place, but i mean, of course, these two countries are the most heavily sanctioned countries on earth anyway. and past bombing trains that leave north korea for russia, there is not an awful lot the west can do to stop this, is there? dr. kim: we have applied sanctions as well as russia for its invasion against ukraine. a question as to whether or not they are being effective. big question mark. they decided to go against the renewal. it takes away the -- to monitor for sanctions. it has to be done in a way with a more holistic policy and approach for the countries. when you're talking about conflict in eastern europe and the tinderbox in east asia, there's so many ways for these actors to bypass sanctions and scared at the mechanisms that it becomes very difficult. christian: do you think it has been a shift in the power dynamic between these two leaders. if the first time he has been there in 24 years. in a way, it was the soviet un

if somebody give me a try, the irene and christiane met in 2010. when he was until i'm in charo for a medical research project. irene's home was right on the mountain. vinnish flu, martin, one of the morning i passed by a building site. you know i readings. hometown it was that among older mail construction where cuz it was a young woman carrying a heavy steel beam on her head. so i thought wow, that's impressive. i'm just looking for something i found it in dairy for me just condition. i was exhausted when i saw it 1st before i staring at me, walter didn't know what he wanted. nothing. yeah, and when i came down and saw him up close here before that it was like, love at 1st sight. he said, you buffy. so click a button now then off towards came a struggle, which is a city f one wanted to break is up. know somebody, mama, they said to my mother, your daughter is going to leave with this man and be sold to be done. you know how it goes. when it goes, go to your ups, then no longer women, you know, they just sold like a prostitute. it's got to reduce

christian: thank you very much indeed.ke you to georgia, atlanta -- atlanta, georgia -- where president biden come down the steps of air force one. he's about to be transferred to cnn studios for tonight's live televised debate. he has been in a debate prep. last few days at camp david, but through his paces by his team. it is a crucial night for joe biden. in all the swing states, seven swing states in all, he is trailing donald trump. this an opportunity to put a stamp on the campaign earlier than normal, of course, this debate. they don't usually get on so early. joe biden certainly looking forward to an opportunity to put his case to the u.s. voters tonight. we watch these pictures, let's bring in caitrÍona perry, who will be covering it tonight. she will be in the spin room, which will be busy, as it always is. >> hr will.--it sure will. christian: 70% of people will be i can't imagine there is much they don't know about these candidates, but it is the nature of the debate in america right now that you can't take your

he promised them in 2016 in iowa christianity will have power, and conservative christians jumped on the trump train, and it ended up being a bullet train for them. they got three justices on the supreme court, and the deal was set. and now they've been with him for eight years, and it doesn't -- for conservative christians, they're with him. he can moderate his tone on abortion, say he wouldn't sign a 15-week federal ban, and they're still probably going to stick with him. they are fully bought in and part of this maga movement, and the two are operating together. now, you know, donald trump is in a different position, because the politics of abortion have changed so radically. he senses the toxicity there, which is why you've seen him come out and say it should be returned to the state, that he supports exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, so that dance has gotten more complicated for him politically, but there's not a sense that he's worried about losing this group that's really become a central core of his movement and his base of support. >> well, yeah, and i --

but in fact, every christian is called spend his day before the lord in the awareness that the lord is nearby, looking at him. this is our faith. it is precisely this kind of constant vigilance that the holy gospel reminds us of. all of this is especially important to think about. because sometimes everyday worries so captivate us that it becomes easy, easy to lose attention to spiritual life, to forget about our christian calling, but today the ascended christ lifts our mind to the heavenly, the heavenly, the eternal. dear brothers and sisters, the lord jesus christ ascended to heaven, but did not leave us, and today he... invisibly, but in the most effective way, remains with us, let the awareness of this instill in us truly spiritual joy, at the same time, help us to be collected and attentive to our everyday life. in conclusion, i want to say that the meaning of today's holiday can be perceived in its entirety only by thinking about the holiday. the resurrection of christ, the pascha of the lord, on the feast of the holy trinity, because the work of salvation of the human race, it

christian. jewish as well.food need and how do we apply our faith to this political dialog somportant for this election year, i want to get into that later on in the conversation specifically how we reach out to the faith based communities. so i think are also being manipulated by fear, but if you don't mind me asking, you know, as a christian, as a person who believes in god and believes in jesus and the true jesus, how does it you feel personally when a twice impeachable guerin who was held for sexual assault by a jury of his, compares himself to jesus and holds the bible. i mean, just the emotional, visceral reaction that this person warrior for christianityd jesus. well, you recall he he he got a general to clear the non violent, peaceful protesters from lafayette square. you want to st john's church now i know st jo' bishop there no permission and he held his bible ironically revealing upside down. he's not comfortable with the bible. he held it upside down and now he's selling one. so that is that is the

a christian does not so much talk about the gospel as he lives according to it, speaks with his life,dying those principles, ideals that the savior of the world showed us. and this exalted way of life is preached daily in silence. telling everyone around us that christ has indeed risen; anything that is different always attracts attention. the life of a christian differs from the generally accepted way of behavior, differs in the pursuit of virtue and avoidance of sin, a kind and merciful attitude towards others, a thrifty attitude towards property and other people's work. all this makes people around them pay attention to the christian and become interested in the gospel, and human attention today has a very high value. dear brothers and sisters, on the day of holy pentecost, the holy spirit descended on the apostles and from now on relentlessly dwells in the church of christ. from now on, the great mystery of the holy trinity has been revealed to us, everyone... received holy baptism, became part of the church that was born on that ancient day. day of pentecost. and for more than 2,

my name is christine, my name is christian. i come from mama, germany, oh, my book, deutschland i work for you know exactly 10 years ago and i came to keep motion for the 1st time on that would they give the training center for the sisters was being built on and there was this beautiful woman though generally the one is most of i'm in guns and i especially want to thank my name because she eventually came to trust me for me or fortunately it seems that everyone else has to. christiane is accepted into the family and the village community even gets a new name. mister swine, which means strong branch. while the women celebrate irene's official white foot. christiane is able to thank all the guests personally. the the, the official wedding in germany was a few years ago, but today they're receiving a traditional african wedding gift to huge, beautifully hand embroider blankets. specifically, bed spreads the message. now they can truly share a marital bed. one question remains open though, where the mood at the party is great. ther

christianity. >> thank you so much for giving us the tip of the iceberg, the chair of the department of r religious studies at the university of pennsylvania and columnist for msnbc daily and the author of white evangelical racism, the politics of religion in america. religion in america.

euphrasini falls on the ongoing celebration of the greatest christian holiday. easter of the lord. triumphant easter testifies to us of that christ rose from the dead, and for every person who heard the gospel message and followed the savior, the path to the kingdom of heaven and eternal life with god is open. the venerable euphrasinya was also clearly aware of this truth when she decided to reject the temporary joys of earthly existence and firmly embark on... our path of all-zealous service to god, therefore today our prayerful appeal to the saint is filled with easter joy and the firm confidence that not a single good intention of our heart will not go unnoticed by god. venerable ephrasenia is also called an enlightener. this is true, because the monasteries founded by her became sources of enlightenment. why is it important to remember this? because her image is an example of the correct attitude towards knowledge. a worldly person, having knowledge, often does not realize responsibility for it. but the life of st. euphrasini tells us that the acquisition of ever new knowledge

is four pages about christianity enough to understand what country you live in?only faith in god disappeared, but the values ​​associated with it also disappeared. collective action is the security of the nation of the people, the ability to understand, consolidate, speak out, especially in the situations in which we find ourselves today, i want you to listen not to me and... not even a priest or a theologian, but a mathematician, a professor, corresponding member, ras, russian academy of sciences, listen to him, alexey sovateev. the lord left us laws, science studies these laws, that is, it studies what is left to us, what we can use, but any normal scientist of this level knows perfectly well that in every science there are red flags that cannot be crossed. who, if not god , placed them, i wonder if this is in mathematics, but in mathematics there is a lot of this, in fact, in mathematics, the ears of god stick out from all corners, stick out, there is information that the famous danish physicist, nobel prize winner, niels bohr, one of the developers of atomic

it's not a label that most christians would want applied to themselves. i think that history of that connotation, that kind negative today, really became historical episode. and that's the infamous or famous, depending on youru view scopes trial. there weof 1925, the monkey trit dominated newspaper headlines in the summer of 1925. now, the scopes trial has culture. you're probably at least vaguely aware of what it. facts of this trial.the the state of tennessee forbiddif theoroftennessee high schools. the aclu, the american civil liberties union, ntedo challenge the constitu functionality of this law. sot together and financed a case. they recruiteden high teacher, a substitute science acamed johns scopes, who agreed to purposully incriminate by making a point of teaching thecn the theory of evolutio and then urging his own students to testify against him that he be charged with this e and it would go to trial. so that's what happened. be just an amazing pubcityortu town of , tennessee. i mean, 200 reporters descend on the town in july of 1925. a few■c th

christians, but the majority of christians, so to speak, the whole world, one way or another, pentecost, yes, this is the day of the founding of the church, as a way to communicate with god, as a way to save one’s soul, that on this day, our enemies, i won’t even say whether it’s ukraine or someone else, our enemies struck sevastopol, for me personally, this is yet another confirmation that they are not just infuriated by the existence of russia as such, they want to destroy the orthodox church as well. christianity, because orthodox christianity, again, like it, don’t like it, like it, don’t want it, believe it, don’t believe it, but this is really the foundation of the russian original civilization, from which, yes, we all take these roots, even people non-believers, in fact, from this precisely from this, so to speak, from these roots, are nourished in their understanding, what is good, what is bad , what is good, what is evil, in my personal opinion, of orthodox christianity, except in russia, by and large, so to speak, and its fate is outside of russia, but it looks... quite sad, b

becoming christian.and to be clear, he believed that the britain of his day was post-christian somewhere in the same comparison as a divorce. he is to someone who is married. lewis thought the truth of the matter was the reverse. instead of returning directly to christian ethics, the world must first simply return to a belief in real objective morality. only then would it be open to returning to christianity. for he writes, christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. it is a dress only to penitence only to those who admit their disobedience to the known moral law. it offers forgiveness for having broken and super natural help towards keeping that law. and by so doing, reaffirms it. in other words, you have to admit you're sick before you will see the doctor. and jesus did not come for the healthy in his essay god in the dark. lewis posits that the main difference between the ancient and the moderns is that the ancients, christians --, pagans all believed that there was something wrong with