Unambitious Loser With Happy, Fulfilling Life Still Lives In Hometown
Local man, an unambitious 29-year-old loser who leads an enjoyable and fulfilling life, still lives in his hometown and has no desire to leave
According to relatives who moved thousands of miles away and are currently alienated from much of the family, Husmer has never once taken a major professional or financial risk, choosing instead to “coast through life” by putting considerable time and effort into his rewarding marriage, playing an active role in his two children’s lives, and... Continue Reading
Why Do Younger Evangelicals Put Happiness and Popularity Over Morality and Truth?
Christianity is not just about being happy and feeling good and being liked by others
What’s at the root of this movement to back away from moral issues?…When you advocate for moral causes like protecting the unborn, or school choice, or freeing the slaves, a bunch of people are not going to like you…But young evangelicals have gotten the idea that being a Christian should not involve any sort of... Continue Reading
The Zimmerman Case: Cutting the Cake
The Zimmerman case reveals a world view that is fully entrenched in postmodernism
Postmodernism states there is no objective truth, and to insist that there is (in this case, judicial law, juries, trial, evidence) is to impose violence. Postmodernism says that one’s experience and emotions are sufficient to weigh ‘reality’ whatever that is. So “in our hearts” is sufficient. Zimmerman is guilty because “we feel that he is.”... Continue Reading
Growing Old, But Not Together
As the divorce rate growth flattened out overall, the divorce rate among older adults doubled between 1990 and 2009
The study suggests the rising rate stems from a snowball effect. As the baby boom generation greys, it represents the “first cohort to divorce and remarry in large numbers during young adulthood.” Married people who have previously been divorced are 2.5 times more likely to divorce again, so as baby boomers enter their second or... Continue Reading
Wishing God Were More Like Jesus
There is a growing segment of western “Christianity” that sure wishes God would be more like Jesus
There is no separating the person of Jesus Christ from the God of Scripture. To suggest that Jesus Christ is divided against the God of Scripture is to create a fictional Jesus – one who does not exist. Likewise, the Bible affirms that Jesus is the Word made flesh and moreover, that Jesus is the revelation... Continue Reading
When Is a Royal Baby a Fetus?
What media coverage of the recent royal pregnancy and birth has to do with abortion politics.
But in a society that has moved to a stunning degree away from pro-choice identification and toward some form of pro-life conviction, it may also be that the American moral sense, short as its reach is, uncertain as its effects are, will, after much travail and division, shelter the babies that now spin, kick, and... Continue Reading
Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call for Punishment
A chaplain has been censored for expressing his beliefs about the role of faith in the lives of service members
Lt. Col. Kenneth Reyes recently wrote an essay entitled, “No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains Gave All in World War II.”….When Reyes referenced this famous line in his essay, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) contacted the base commander, Col. Brian Duffy, demanding he take action on Reyes’s “anti-secular diatribe.” MRFF’s letter says that by Reyes’s... Continue Reading
San Antonio Looks to Penalize Bible Believers
Critics charge 'anti-bias' requirement would punish people with moral convictions
The new ordinance would state: “No person shall be appointed to a position if the city council finds that such person has, prior to such proposed appointment, engaged in discrimination or demonstrated a bias, by word or deed, against any person, group or organization on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual... Continue Reading
Dear President Obama, Please Leave Africa Out of Your Intolerant World of Redefined Marriage
Africa’s commitment to family life firmly embedded in a healthy marriage culture
I ask you sir, with all due respect to your highly esteemed office, what if our African values and religious beliefs teach us to elevate the highest good of the family above sexual gratification? What if African society has been naturally wired to value the awesome wonder of natural conception and birth of children within... Continue Reading
Restrictions on Religion Have Increased Globally Since the Arab Spring
A new Pew Research Center study finds that religious restrictions and social hostilities have increased worldwide since the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011.
Two countries reached five-year, worldwide highs in either governmental restrictions or social hostilities – Egypt and Pakistan. The report also listed China, Syria, Bahrain and Myanmar, among other countries, as having unusually high levels of religious restriction and social hostility. Governmental restrictions on religious freedoms and social hostilities related to religious differences have increased globally since the... Continue Reading
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