Gosnell has been named in at least 46 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a 22-year-old mother who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus in 2000. Many others also involve perforated uteruses. Gosnell sometimes sewed up the injury without telling women their uteruses had been perforated, prosecutors said. An abortionist who catered... Continue Reading

The state of Vermont has ended a years-long legal dispute with a man who has been fighting for the right to display a reference to John 3:16, one of the Bible’s most famous passages on a vanity plate. The state won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that said... Continue Reading

“(This bill is) about protecting intrastate commerce, encouraging competition for government contracts, and reducing regulation and risk of litigation,” he said. “I think the Legislature will see this as a very positive step for our business environment here. I think businesses, if they’re honest, will see that as well.” As local governments across the country... Continue Reading

Malaysia’s ban was issued in 1996 by the National Fatwa Council of top Islamic clerics and seen as unusual in the Muslim world. The council comes under the government’s Islamic Advancement Department, so its decrees are de facto law. Malaysian religious police raided a three-story shop-house last month and detained more than 100 Shiites who... Continue Reading

“Thankfully, more states are recognizing that the only way to truly protect marriage is to amend their constitutions. Marriage is still the only institution we have with the primary purpose of giving a mother and a father to every child, and every adult should consider this in light of the push to redefine it.” Five... Continue Reading

Highly effective families still do this. They have rituals not for ritual’s sake, but for the sake of telling THE story. For Christian families, Advent can become a significant teaching time. Lent and Holy Week can also become spiritual tools to remind our families of who we are and what God has done for us... Continue Reading

Ussher is likely most remembered for his scholarly analysis of the genealogies of the Book of Genesis which led him to date the origin of the earth at 4004 B.C. James Ussher, the Irish-born linguist, scholar, pastor-theologian and Anglican Archbishop, was born January 4, 1581. He was reared in Calvinism, and at 13 years of... Continue Reading

America is not color-blind and likely will never be. Race is ever-present, like a birth defect that you learn to live with but can never cure. Because Scripture speaks powerfully about equality and how to treat one another, I and a number of other black PCA ministers approached byFaith magazine and asked to begin a... Continue Reading

Despite worries about voter fraud, intimidation, or even the threat of Islamists like Somalia’s Al-Shabaab attacking voting stations, the people of South Sudan are determined to be free. After over 40 years of war waged against them by a regime attempting to destroy their African culture and Christian faith, South Sudanese began voting in a... Continue Reading

“For the briefest moment it looked as if the baby were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed,” Johnson writes. “And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was... Continue Reading