Matthew Shepard: A Sodomite Martyr and Saint

The Episcopal Church has been apostate for some time. Long before the flagrant sodomite Gene Robinson was elected bishop in 2003 the Episcopal Church had been in a state of sharp doctrinal decline. The denomination began to turn away from Scriptural authority in earnest and ordain women back in the 1970's but many conservatives held on until Robinson's ordination. At that point they began to peel off and either join the Anglican Church in North America or leave the Anglican heritage altogether.

So in other words, anyone even remotely interested in Biblical and historic Christianity has broken with American Episcopalianism.

Brunson Postscript

As a follow-up to this post:

http://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2018/10/brunsons-testimony-negated.html

It remains to be seen what he will do, but given that he's eagerly making the rounds on the news circuit there is the real possibility that he will grow quite wealthy as a result of this experience.

The Khashoggi Affair

First let it be stated that there's little doubt that agents of the bin Salman government killed Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. The dissident journalist had angered the Saudi regime and clearly was targeted for assassination.

The Western media Establishment has gone haywire and the coverage has been relentless....

And yet consistently shallow and as a result misleading.

Brunson's Testimony Negated

It will come as no surprise to regular readers that I am critical of the events that led up to the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson.

I don't doubt his innocence and that he was caught up in a geopolitical tug-of-war between Washington and Ankara. Erdogan lost the showdown and as a consequence has egg on his face. Brunson was freed which (as Christians) is something we should all rejoice in but sadly the circumstances surrounding his freedom are in fact a source of concern... and for American Evangelicals yet another mark of shame.

From Brunson's perspective, I'm sure he just wanted to be released and who can blame him?

Cold War II: Update from the Armenian Front

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Yerevan,-Katolikos-Karekin-II-resigns-45030.html

They're calling it the Armenian Velvet Revolution. It's velvet because it was soft and non-violent and was (supposedly) in the spirit of the peaceful 1989 uprisings that removed the communists from power in Czechoslovakia.