Saturday, September 26, 2026
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Jesuit Influence From Hollywood To Higher Education SkyWatchTV
Jesuit Influence From Hollywood To Higher Education
SkyWatchTV
Sep 20, 2026
For centuries, the Jesuits have been associated with religion, education, politics, and some of the most powerful institutions in the world. But how far does that influence extend today?
In the third installment of this explosive SkyWatchTV series, Joe Horn sits down once again with award-winning filmmaker Chris Pinto, creator of American Jesuits: A History of Jesuitism in the United States.
After tracing Jesuit history and examining its connections to America's past in the first two episodes, this conversation brings the investigation into the modern world.
Healthcare. Politics. Intelligence. Immigration. China. Entertainment. Globalization.
Chris begins connecting historical threads to institutions and influential figures that millions of Americans encounter today—and argues that relationships most people would never think to look for have been hiding in plain sight.
But how much of this is documented history? How much is influence? And how far does the network actually reach?
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The Trail to Women’s Ordination in the NPUC Started in Oregon
Naomi Pepper
The historic vote on women’s ordination at the 2026 North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) constituency session was driven by Adventists in Oregon. The motion was voted onto the agenda after delegates successfully navigated complex internal union bylaws to secure a direct vote. The efforts of these delegates resulted in a major victory for women in ministry and longtime advocates of ordination equality across the region.
Kessia Reyne Bennett, lead pastor of the Pleasant Valley Adventist Church in Oregon and a delegate at large, offered support that was characteristic of the careful way in which the Oregon Conference constituents presented the proposal. Noting that the move was not oppositional toward either the General Conference (GC) or “the establishment,” Bennett said, “I appreciate the motion for recognizing the authority of of the unions to administer ministerial credentials,” and added that the motion was careful not to compel conferences to put forward candidates who would not align with the conference’s “convictions or the qualifications of the candidate.” Kessia Reyne Bennett praised the motion for recognizing unions’ authority to approve ordinations. Video NPUC
But it wasn’t only Oregonians who spoke out in favor of ordination. José Haroldo Alomia, pastor of the Kirkland Adventist Church in the Washington Conference, said in support of the motion, “As a Hispanic man growing up in Latin America, I used to be of the opinion that women could not be ordained, nor lead in the church as I could.” He added that in over two decades of ministry, he changed his position because “Scripture doesn’t explicitly prohibit it,” and because his ministry “has been blessed and amplified by all the women that have worked with me,” including his current associate.José Haroldo Alomia noted that the Mid-America Union had already implemented the same measure proposed by the NPUC with no adverse effects to the Adventist Church or its mission. Video: NPUC
During more than an hour of discussion on the motion, of the 26 delegates who commented on the motion, seventeen spoke in favor, six in opposition, and three raised questions or declined to state a position. Nine of the seventeen delegates who voiced support are Oregon Conference pastors; one is an administrator in the conference.
The road to getting the motion to the floor was far from simple. Organizers had to navigate significant administrative hurdles to ensure the union leadership heard what a majority—62 percent—of delegates wanted for the women working in their churches.
The question of women’s ordination remains one of the most debated issues within the Adventist Church. Notably, the issue was brought to delegates at the 2015 GC Session in San Antonio, Texas. Out of 2,358 voters representing the world church, that motion fell just 203 votes short of allowing each world division to decide whether to permit the ordaining of women within their territory. There has not been a GC vote about whether unions can decide.
Increasingly, Adventists have pushed back against this stance, advocating more flexibility for unions and conferences to do what they believe is best for their congregations and pastors in their local contexts. With their awareness of how biblical values need to be communicated to increasingly diverse communities, they note how inviting people to join a church that officially discriminates on the basis of gender impedes Adventist mission. Walla Walla, Washington resident Jack Hoehn, author of Adventist Tomorrow: Fresh Ideas While Waiting for Jesus, stated in an interview, “‘Not now’ to female pastors is just another way of men saying ‘no!’”
In 2012, well before the 2015 GC vote, the Pacific Union and the Columbia Union successfully voted bylaw amendments approving “ordination to the gospel ministry without regard to gender” in their respective territories.
In 2021, the Mid-America Union followed, stating in their motion that it,“recognizes the right and responsibility of each local conference to prepare and recommend names for ordination, and will consider all recommended persons for ordination as submitted by the respective local conference executive committees.”
This was the exact language that members of the Oregon Conference executive committee used when submitting their proposed motion for the constituency session agenda. Though this does not compel conferences within the union to take any particular action, it gives each conference the flexibility to follow its own convictions on employment gender equality.
LIVE: Nor'easter Coverage With Storm Chasers - Northeast Sept. 26
LIVE: Nor'easter Coverage With Storm Chasers - Northeast Sept. 26
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AccuWeather meteorologists Geoff Cornish & Bernie Rayno cover the Nor'easter on Sept. 26 with radar, warnings and storm chasers in the Northeast.
Australian naturopath Barbara O’Neill detained in Qatar, released after hours of questioning
Barbara O’Neill. Photo: Barbara O’Neill/Instagam
Barbara said she was told she was not subject to a travel ban and was allowed to leave Qatar, returning to Dubai, where she is now with her husband
PUBLISHED: Sat 26 Sept 2026, 12:12 PM
By:
Salma El Omla
Australian naturopath Barbara O’Neill was arrested in Qatar and later released, according to a video shared on her official Instagram handle.
In the clip, Barbara recalled the incident, saying that the arrest took place at around 9 pm when she was preparing to go to bed.
She said that around 8 men arrived at her accommodation, one of whom identified himself as being from Qatar’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and told her that she had to accompany them to the police station.
She said that a policewoman accompanied her while she changed before she was taken to the police station.
'Incredibly unnerving'
Barbara described the experience as 'incredibly unnerving' and said she became emotional while being questioned. “I did cry,” she said, recalling that an officer asked why she was crying and told her that they had not hurt her.
She said the entire experience has 'been really upsetting'.
Barbara said that she told the officer that she had “done nothing wrong”. She claimed that the authorities eventually decided that she did not pose a threat to public safety and allowed her to return to her hotel instead of keeping her in a cell overnight and to come back at 7am instead.
She said she returned as directed and spent around five hours at the police station, accompanied by two women, one of whom she referred to as her “Middle Eastern daughter”.
She said she was later questioned by the head prosecutor and two lawyers, who told her, 'No, you don’t have a ban. You can travel.'
Barbara said that she was subsequently allowed to leave Qatar and returned to Dubai, where she is now with her husband, Micheal, who also appeared in the video.
The couple did not provide details about the specific allegation or offence that led to Barbara’s arrest.
Health claims under scrutiny
Australian naturopath Barbara O’Neill has gained an international following for promoting natural remedies, nutrition and lifestyle-based approaches to health. However, some of her health claims have faced criticism from medical and health authorities.
In August, Egypt’s Medical Syndicate called for action over a training course O’Neill was scheduled to present in El Gouna, Hurghada, in November, citing concerns over what it described as misleading and unverified health claims.
The syndicate said it had taken urgent measures to protect public health and prevent the promotion of medical information that is not supported by scientific evidence.
It also said O’Neill is not licensed to practise medicine in Egypt and referred to a permanent prohibition issued by Australian authorities following an official investigation.
National Reform is Church and State (with text) | A. T. Jones
National Reform is Church and State (with text) | A. T. Jones
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Sep 25, 2026 Pamphlets – A. T. Jones Audiobooks
National Reform is Church and State, by A. T. Jones, answers those who insisted that the National Reform movement did not seek a union of church and state. Using the movement's own statements — that there is no Christian religion apart from the Christian church, and that this religion should become the fundamental law of the nation — Jones shows that its program is, by definition, a union of church and state. This edition shows the full text on screen, so you can read along as you listen.
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Do You Actually Know What You Believe? | Bible Q&A - Pastor Bill Hughes
Do You Actually Know What You Believe? | Bible Q&A - Pastor Bill Hughes
Countryside Sabbath Fellowship
Sep 25, 2026 #BibleQA #BibleTruth #EndTimes
Bible Q&A with Pastor Bill Hughes
How do we know whether what we are hearing is really biblical?
In this Q&A, Pastor Bill Hughes answers questions about the Sunday law, the 144,000, the mark of the beast, Sabbath observance, music, Adventist pioneers, date-setting, and other end-time issues.
But the larger question behind all of them is this:
Do we actually know what we believe—and why we believe it?
This discussion challenges us to test every teaching by the Word of God rather than simply accepting it because it comes from a respected speaker, pastor, or religious leader.
Celtic Sabbath-Keeping
Celtic Sabbath-Keeping Study
No. 264
Proof of Celtic Sabbath-keeping is easy to find. The curious thing is why Church of God missionaries do not return to Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and thunder the Gospel message of repentance, calling on today’s Celtic peoples to return to the faith of their fathers.
Henry Charles Lea, the foremost authority on the Papal Inquisitions, records in the period of the commencement of persecution involving judicial capital punishment for heresy, that at the time of the execution of Priscillian with six of his followers in 385 AD., that “others were banished to a barbarous island beyond Britain,” A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, vol. 1, New York: Harper & Brothers 1887, p. 213.
What was this barbarous island? Most likely, it would appear to be Ireland. Britain and Ireland were favorite places for banishment and the marketing of slaves in those days. If indeed, many faithful “heretics” were banished to Ireland for centuries, it could not but have had a profound effect on that island, which became a great center of light under Patrick (5th century), Columba (521-597), and Columbanus (c. 540-615) as the darkness of papal tyranny descended over the continent. Missionaries went forth from Ireland to Switzerland, Bohemia, and Kiev. Ireland was one of the most difficult areas for Rome to subjugate, and this explains why such unending efforts have been made for over 1200 years to completely subjugate this island.
The Celtic Church which occupied Ireland, Scotland, and Britain, had the Syriac (Byzantine) scriptures instead of the Latin vulgate of Rome. The Celtic Church, with the Waldenses and the Eastern empire, kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
When Queen Margaret fled to Scotland with her father Edward Atheling, a pretender to the English throne, she wrote “to her English cousins expressing astonishment at the religious practices of the Scots. Among the ‘peculiarities’ of the Scots was that ‘they work on Sunday, but keep Saturday in a sabbatical manner.’ To another correspondent she complained, ‘They are accustomed also to neglect reverence for the Lord’s days (Sundays); and thus to continue upon them as upon other days all the labours of earthly work.”
David Marshall tells us, “The observance of the Saturday Sabbath by most Scots went hand in hand with their refusal to ‘recognize the overlordship of the Pope in matters spiritual.’ Despite the best efforts of King Nectan centuries earlier, Scottish Christianity was still of the ‘Columban’ or ‘Celtic,’ not the ‘Roman,’ variety.
“The most popular narrative history of Scotland — Scotland: A Concise History by P. Hume Brown (Langsyne) — confirms that at Margaret’s accession, ‘the people worked on Sundays and observed Saturday as the Sabbath day.’ Peter Berresford Ellis in Celtic Inheritance (Constable, 1992) page 45 writes: ‘When Rome began to take a particular interest in the Celtic Church towards the end of the sixth century A.D., there were several differences between them . . . . The Celtic Sabbath was celebrated on a Saturday.’ Ellis’s comment covers the Celtic Church in Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Gaul, as well as Scotland. Romanism was, apparently, coming into Scotland but had no strength north of the Forth.
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Nearer, My God, to Thee
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Nov 20, 2008
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Family Recreation | Homeward Bound - September 26
September 26 - Family Recreation | Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound is a daily devotional drawn from the writings of Ellen G. White, keeping the eyes of the believer fixed on the heavenly home that awaits the redeemed. Each reading refreshes the soul with the hope of eternity and the joy of the journey toward the city of God.
Friday, September 25, 2026
Democratic House candidate arrested during Netanyahu protest in NYC
September 24, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
By Teo Armus
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist overwhelmingly favored in the race for a House seat representing part of New York City, was arrested Thursday while protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations.
Avila Chevalier, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D) in a June primary, had been among hundreds of people who rallied outside the U.N. headquarters and blocked traffic with a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups.
“I refuse to allow a war criminal to roam the streets of our city unchallenged,” Avila Chevalier said in a statement. “I refuse to play host to a man who has overseen the slaughter or injury of more than 64,000 children in Gaza with American taxpayer dollars.”
Avila Chevalier ran for Congress in part on her past activism on the war in Gaza. She participated in the 2024 encampments at Columbia University, her alma mater, and was also arrested this spring at a protest asking Sens. Chuck Schumer (D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to vote against selling weapons to Israel.
A spokeswoman for Avila Chevalier said police instructed demonstrators to disperse or risk potential arrest. She had not been released as of about 3:30 p.m.
Several other progressive Democratic nominees for the U.S. House, including Melat Kiros (Colorado), Chris Rabb (Pennsylvania), Adam Hamawy (New Jersey) and Brad Lander (New York), were also at the demonstration, her spokeswoman said. Comedian Caleb Hearon and actor Hannah Einbinder were also arrested.
Avila Chevalier is all but guaranteed to win her general election in the deep-blue 13th District in New York that backed Kamala Harris by nearly 60 percentage points.
Democrats can't shake their DSA problem | Opinion
Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the Democratic Party has a stark choice: Stay a mainstream liberal coalition or lean hard into democratic socialism.
To paraphrase a famous 2016 line about the "alternative right": A specter is haunting the dinner events, fundraisers and think tanks of the Democratic Party – the specter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
A quick saunter over to the DSA website (whose federal donation page is titled "Socialist Cash Takes Out Capitalist Trash") shows the left-of-Foucault organization has run or strongly endorsed nearly 200 candidates so far in 2026. As of Sept. 22, DSA's election tracker claimed 67 wins against 60 losses. Sixty-four other races, including many of the biggest, remain undecided.
While the full DSA slate includes contenders for some mundane local jobs ("Ramsey County Commissioner, Minnesota"), multiple candidates have already become familiar names.
In New York City, pro-Palestinian activist Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a Democratic primary almost certain to determine who holds his House seat. Given Espaillat's status as chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, it's fair to call this – as Politico put it – "a massive victory for the Democratic Socialists of America and Mayor Zohran Mamdani," one that "cements the DSA ... as one of the city's most potent political forces."
Did Celtic Christians Keep the 7th Day Sabbath?
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Yes, historical records indicate that early Celtic Christians in Ireland and Scotland observed Saturday as a day of rest. Facebook
Historical Evidence of Celtic Sabbath-Keeping
• The Day of Rest: Several 19th- and 20th-century historians note that early Celtic monastic communities abstained from labor on Saturday, treating it in a sabbatical manner. Whole Gospel Ministries
• Queen Margaret's Influence: In the 11th century, Queen Margaret of Scotland worked to reform the Scottish church and opposed the local custom where people rested on Saturday ("the Sabbath") and performed their ordinary work on Sunday ("the Lord's day"). https://www.facebook.com/reel/1377568557646563
• aPrimary Sources: Historians like W. T. Skene in Celtic Scotland and A. C. Flick in The Rise of the Medieval Church recorded that the Celts kept Saturday as a day of rest, while also holding special religious services on Sunday. Facebook +1 https://www.facebook.com/AmazingFacts/posts/st-patrick-and-the-sabbathst-patrick-worshipped-god-on-the-seventh-day-sabbath-i/1357720269722405/
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At Trump meeting, Xi Jinping lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict
Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade
Xi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid rising tensions over artificial intelligence, trade and Taiwan.
At the start of his summit meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, the Chinese president laid out terms for a mutual understanding that he said could steer the two competing superpowers away from future military conflict and on to a road of mutual gain.
Rather than confrontation, conditions for “achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again go hand in hand” and should be the goal, Xi said, citing Trump’s political catchphrase.
“We should strengthen communication. China and the United States are different in national conditions, but through candid, in-depth and continued dialogue, our two countries can understand each other better, seek common ground while shelving differences, and build up mutual trust,” said Xi, with Trump looking on.
“We should coexist in peace. China and the United States, as two major countries, stand to gain from cooperation and will both lose in confrontation. Our two militaries should maintain regular dialog and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention.”
With such conditions in place, Xi said, “the Thucydides trap can be overcome”, referring to the phenomenon, defined by the Greek historian, of tensions that arise when an emerging power challenges the dominance of an established power.
Xi invoked the phrase in his meeting with Trump in Beijing in May, asking the US president how he planned to avoid it.
His proposals for lessening tensions – which also included the invitation of 100,000 young Americans to visit China on student exchanges – come amid a period of intense competition between the two powers over artificial intelligence and trade, with each side imposing tariffs on the other.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Gov. Andy Beshear invokes faith to defend veto of 'anti-trans' bill, slams JD Vance's Christianity
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has suggested that opposition to taxpayer funding of trans procedures for minors that cause irreversible harm, such as infertility and impaired sexual function, is un-Christian.
In a wide-ranging interview with USA Today’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page to promote his new book, Go and Do Likewise, Beshear addressed whether he plans to run for president in 2028, and listed Democratic candidates up for election in November who he says offer an alternative for Christian voters who can’t get on board with Republicans and the Trump administration's agenda.
Touting his record of governing an overwhelmingly Republican state, Beshear recalled how he vetoed what he described as “the nastiest anti-trans bill that my state had ever seen,” and falsely claimed it would have eliminated “all medical coverage whatsoever to children” and take away parents’ rights in making healthcare decisions.
“I remember explaining because it’s how I authentically think and believe that if I believe all children are children of God, I shouldn’t want people picking on these kids,” he added.
Beshear made similar comments on “The View” earlier this year as he invoked the parable of the Good Samaritan to justify his position of supporting body mutilation for teens struggling with gender confusion or same-sex attraction.