Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books
The debate between paper books and e-readers has been vicious since the first Kindle came out in 2007
As we increasingly read on screens, our reading habits have adapted to skim text rather than really absorb the meaning. A 2006 study found that people read on screens in an “F” pattern, reading the entire top line but then only scanning through the text along the left side of the page. This sort of... Continue Reading
Gay-Rights Campaign Invokes Religion in the South
The nation’s largest gay advocacy group launched a faith-based campaign in Mississippi in mid-November
The campaign is part of HRC’s Project One America, an initiative announced this spring to win support for the LGBT agenda in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. HRC is spending $8.5 million on the project and says All God’s Children will cost an initial $310,000. A study commissioned by HRC and cited in their campaign fact... Continue Reading
When Christian News Reporting is All Three
World has not been irresponsible; it merely reports how other public figures within evangelicalism have been irresponsible
A typical knee-jerk reaction to bad news is to blame the messenger. And if World had been malicious in its intent, biased in its reporting, and taunting in its editorializing, then we’d all have had cause for complaint. However, reporting bad news is not, in and of itself, bad or wrong. Across most of the journalistic... Continue Reading
Is Houston Still Targeting Pastors’ Sermons?
Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s legal team may request more sermons and private correspondence from two African-American pastors named as plaintiffs in the suit against the city
“The city will move to compel documents from the plaintiffs who filed this lawsuit and who have refused to produce any documents in response to the city’s requests,” lawyers claimed in a court document filed Friday. The city’s lawyers pledge to refocus all of their pressure on the plaintiffs, rather than other petition organizers, according... Continue Reading
Internet Porn: An Entirely New Child’s Game
Putting such a boy in front of porn is like giving your drug-addled kid heroin.
Studies report that around 90 per cent of children between eight and 16 have watched porn online, and about half do it regularly. Parents and schools worry about party drugs but the fact that boys aged 12 to 17 are the largest consumer group for this multibillion-dollar industry suggests that porn – or the dopamine... Continue Reading
In Court Today: Named Person Challenge Goes Before Judge
Under the plans, every child from birth will receive a state guardian until the age of 18.
“This is all about the fight to save families. Enormous issues are at stake. What could be more important than the rights of mums and dads to bring up their children how they see fit, not being dictated to by the heavy-hand of meddling and interfering politicians and their army of taxpayer-funded state monitors?” ... Continue Reading
Rights Group Details Boko Haram’s Barbaric Abuses
A new report sheds light on the horror of Boko Haram’s abuses of the women and girls, primarily from Christian villages, they have kidnapped
The report’s authors interviewed many escaped kidnapping victims, witnesses, social workers, religious leaders, journalists, and others experts. The report confirmed female hostages experienced forced marriages, sexual abuse including rape, beatings and other violence, servitude, and even compulsory participation in military operations. (WNS)–Although the Nigerian government recently claimed Boko Haram would release the 219 Chibok... Continue Reading
Life Under Islamic State In Iraq’s Falluja: Danger, Rage And Profit
Islamic State is notorious for beheading or executing anyone who stands in its way when seizing cities and towns in Iraq and Syria
One witness recalled how a crowd gathered as a woman in her fifties who used to sell women’s underwear, clothes and nail polish shouted outside the Falluja Islamic State court, which rules on everything from crimes to disputes between neighbors. The woman was heading to the court to argue she should be allowed to walk... Continue Reading
The Rise Of Christianity In China
The state’s response to this resurgence of faith is an escalating campaign of repression
“Perhaps most surprising, given its status as a “foreign” religion and its close association with an earlier era of gunboats and imperialism, Christianity (particularly the Protestant variety) has been the big winner in the competition for Chinese souls. If it continues to spread at its current pace, the country is very likely to be home... Continue Reading
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops: Tetanus Vaccine Is Birth Control In Disguise
Kenyan Catholic Church clergy urge women in their childbearing years to shun a tetanus vaccine saying it’s a stealth population-control ploy
The bishops appearing before the parliamentary health committee said they had tested the vaccine privately and were shocked to find it was laced with a birth control hormone called beta human chorionic gonadotropin. “We are calling on all Kenyans to avoid the tetanus vaccination campaign because we are convinced it is indeed a disguised population... Continue Reading
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