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• The Scandal of Gendercide — War on Baby Girls
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  This week The Economist published its stunning cover story -- "Gendercide: What Happened to 100 Million Baby Girls?" -- ending media resistance to directly covering the horror.
• Irony on ice
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  Last night I had the opportunity to take my kids to see Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate! The tickets were free, and as free is my love language, I made plans to take our girls (my husband, who eschews all things Disney, opted to stay home and work). Personally, I have a love/hate relationship with Disney. [...]
• More Americans Say Global Warming Is Exaggerated
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  A strikingly higher percentage of Americans believe that the threat posed by global warming is exaggerated, a new Gallup survey found.
• BREAKING NEWS: World Vision Suspends Pakistan Operations After Militants Kill Staff
  By Worthy Christian News
  The US-based Christian charity World Vision said Wednesday, March 10, it has suspended operations in Pakistan after militants stormed its offices, killing six staff members and injuring several others.
• Retiring childish images of Jesus
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  I must have seen one too many pictures of Jesus as a kid—the Resurrection Jesus of Eastern Orthodox iconography. The image settled into theology in my mind, the unexamined notion that Jesus spends all his time just frozen on a throne, posing for portrait artists. This is the kind of failure of imagination that we smile [...]
• Planned Patrenthood's Record
  By Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments
  At Live Action, youll find this, plus a link to the facts cited:In 2007, Planned Parenthood made only 4,912 adoption referrals yet aborted 305,310 lives. For those who believe those numbers are simply unbelievable, you can read it for yourself in the latest Planned Parenthood Annual Report.
• Glenn Beck's Advice on 'Social Justice' Churches Sparks Outrage
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Anti-poverty Christian groups are up in arms after popular political commentator Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave their church if it talks about social justice.
• Limited Expression: A Bully in Nanny's Clothing
  By Crosswalk.com - Home
  We should tolerate our neighbor wearing a cross, but he must tolerate his neighbor who wears a Darwin-fish T-shirt.
• Divining Violent gods as Natural Cosmic Creators
  By Creation-Evolution Headlines
  Ancient stargazers imagined the violent actions of gods in the heavens giving rise to the stars, earth and man. Today’s secular astronomers engage in a similar kind of lore. While not naming their gods after mythical heroes, they describe them as forces of nature whose violent clashes give rise to order and design. Sometimes they even personify these forces. Maybe the only thing that has changed since Greek times is the sophistication of the observations.
• Archaeology and the Bible (Article)
  By bethinking.org - Latest Resources
  John Dickson, of the Centre for Public Christianity, interviews Karin Sowada on the relationship between archaeology and the Bible. Karin has been a politician in Australia, is Assistant Curator of the Nicholson Museum at Sydney University and is a researcher in Egyptian archaeology with Macquarie University in Sydney. She has carried out excavation work in Jordan, Egypt and Israel and is a specialist in the foreign relations of Egypt and the N...
• 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.
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