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• No tearless spirituality
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  The way of Jesus is the way of tears. While many Christians in Western Europe and North America tend to present a Christianity that rescues and protects us from pain and suffering, Christians in the rest of the world are fully aware that just as Christ learned obedience through tears and suffering, so will the [...]
• Gendercide in Asia
  By Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments
  Heres story from The Economist about Asias demographic problem:It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions—aborted, killed, neglected to death. In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m; the toll is higher now.And the flip side of this, of course:China alone stands to have as many unmarried young men—“bare branches”, as they are known—as the entire population of young men in America. In any country rootless young males spell...
• Who’s Endangered?
  By TooManyAborted.com
  The same year our government (in the form of Supreme Court judicial legislating in Roe v. Wade1 and Doe v. Bolton with no government action to nullify them) decided that an unborn child could be killed at any time throughout a woman’s entire pregnancy, for any reason, they also passed The Endangered Species Act of [...]
• Commentary: Archaeological Discovery Supports Scripture
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Once again, archaeology confirms the accuracy of biblical history. That’s good news, but should it affect how we believers view Scripture?
• 'We're all theologians'
  By PewForum.org | All News Feeds
  Only time will tell whether these are the best or worst of times for doctrine.
• White House Gives Ear to Secularist Group
  By CBN.com - CWN
  The United States may be a country founded on religious freedoms, but today members of the Obama administration met with a group who'd rather America be free from religion.
• Limited Expression: A Bully in Nanny's Clothing
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  We should tolerate our neighbor wearing a cross, but he must tolerate his neighbor who wears a Darwin-fish T-shirt.
• This Tree of Life Is Real
  By Creation-Evolution Headlines
  Imagine a tree that can provide both nutritious food and clean water. Moringa oleifera is such a tree. It grows in Africa and Asia and is being looked at as a life-giving plant that can reduce bacterial contamination of water by 90 to 99.99% by filtering water with its seeds. Science Daily has a picture of the tree’s leaves. “A billion people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are estimated to rely on untreated surface water sources for their daily water needs,” the article said...
• Supreme Court wades into funeral protests
  By PewForum.org | All News Feeds
  The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine can collect damages from a religious sect that picketed his son's funeral with vulgar placards celebrating the death of American soldiers.
• Individualism and the Death of Liberty
  By Crosswalk.com - Home
  Individuals need to be protected. And if that protection does not come from the loving community of family and Church, the government steps in with all sorts of strings attached.
• Record of Reality: Archaeological Discovery and Scripture
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  Once again, archaeology confirms the accuracy of biblical history. That’s good news, but should it affect how we believers view Scripture?
• What Good Is Natural Selection without Progress?
  By Creation-Evolution Headlines
  Two papers recently claim to have seen natural selection. Neither paper, however, identified a functional advantage that would have tied the differences to benefits that could improve a species.
• Unholy Trinity: Outraged at TBN's Brazen False Teaching
  By Crosswalk.com - Home
  All those who truly love Christ and care about the truth have a solemn duty to defend the truth by exposing and opposing lies that masquerade as truth.
• Huckabee Urges Christians to Engage in 'Rotting' Realms of Culture
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  There are many believers who would view the decision of a pastor to enter into politics as a move away from that which is Christian to that which is secular. And while such a view may be correct, former pastor and governor Mike Huckabee makes it clear that it’s not just “evil” people who go into “evil” places.
• The Progressive Diminishment of Man – New English Review
  By Thinking Christian
  Rebecca Bynum has some marvelous insights on scientism’s impulse to abolish humanity from among humanity: One might recall the great glee with which Jane Goodall’s discovery of the tool-making and using of chimpanzees was greeted (wild chimps were observed stripping the leaves from twigs in order to use them to fish for termites). This was due not to the fact that it raised chimpanzees in our estimation, but rather because it lowered man. Louis Leakey exclaimed, “Now we must redefine tool...
• Bad Attitude: The Newest 'Disorder'
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  In the past several decades we've come up with sympathetic psychological explanations for everything from shoplifting to adultery to murder. Apparently, however, this wasn't enough for the APA.
• Gay Marriage v. Religious Freedom: A Cautionary Tale
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., has announced changes to its employees' health care benefits. Normally, this wouldn't be big news, but...
• Fish are friends, not food. So says their lawyer.
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  Will Switzerland vote to provide public defenders to fish? If this story didn’t come from the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal, you would be justified in thinking it was a lark. On Sunday, the Swiss will vote on a referendum that would compel all of Switzerland’s cantons to hire animal lawyers. The rationale: If [...]
• Commentary: Combating the Coarsening of Culture
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Can something as simple as good manners help to stem the coarsening of our culture? Yes!
• Bibles are “smut”
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  For three days this week, a student group at the University of Texas at San Antonio has been offering fellow students free pornography in exchange for their Bibles (or any other “holy books”). The organization, named “The Atheist Agenda,” calls its campaign “Smut for Smut.” Members sit at a table in the lobby of the humanities [...]
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