Geoffrey Clark set off a firestorm of criticism when he recommended that the National Health Service, the British government-run health care system, mandate that mothers of unborn children diagnosed with disabilities have abortions. He said such abortions would be a big help in reducing the nation’s debt, by supposedly cutting the medical and other costs... Continue Reading

Children, like adults, are also sinful. Their image bearing instincts are twisted by sin, mixed with and marred by selfishness. Thus, a toddler may have murder in his eyes when his toy is taken because of disobedience. And thus, children often desire attention and adulation even if it comes by hurting someone else   C.S.... Continue Reading

Same Sex Marriage; Definition of Marriage; Chick-Fil-A Day; New Abortion Center Rules, Planned Parenthood funding falling off; Contraceptive Controversy; and many others   Same Sex Marriage Passes in Four States.  Perhaps the biggest news of the year on the marriage front came on election day when allfour states that voted on the same-sex marriage question (Maine,... Continue Reading

The staff of WORLD News Service assembled the names of those died during 2012. Some of the better known names include Neil Armstrong, Ray Bradbury, Chuck Colson, Andy Griffith, Earl Scruggs, Mike Wallace, among many others     Neil Armstrong:  82, Aug. 25 | Apollo astronaut whose “giant leap for mankind” made him the first... Continue Reading

#1. President Barack Obama won a second term as president of the United States. The election results, which drew diverse reactions from Christians around the world…The results also showed fundamental changes to the American electorate: increased ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity, as well as increased secularization. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith was also... Continue Reading

“Young adult men’s support for redefining marriage … may be, in part, a byproduct of regular exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts….of the men who view pornographic material ‘every day or almost every day,’ 54 percent ‘strongly agreed’ that gay and lesbian marriage should be legal, compared with around 13 percent of those whose... Continue Reading

Some signatories, though they emphasized the importance of religious leaders’ endorsing same-sex marriage, sought to distance the issue from religion. “This has nothing to do with doctrine”… “This has to do with how families live and how families exist and how families come together today. All are God’s children, and we are all worthy of... Continue Reading

(Concerning the unbeliever): “The more intelligent he is, the crazier he is. He becomes a professor and forms an interdisciplinary group. He reads Dante for its mythic structure. He joins the ACLU and concerns himself with the freedom of the individual and does not once exercise his own freedom to inquire into how in God’s... Continue Reading

Another tradition is to offer a Christmas chocolate, often in a shape of Santa Claus and a shot of a high quality liqueur, sweet wine or arak – an anise aperitif. Traditionally, it is not polite to refuse anything offered, however it is acceptable to say no to an alcoholic drink. The chocolate or a... Continue Reading

The most glaring omissions have to do with Christianity. For example,Global Trends 2030 cites the growing economic and political power of Asia and the developing world. But the report ignores the fact, cited by many religion scholars, that Christianity is experiencing a boom in those places.   One often hears that America’s foreign policy elites... Continue Reading