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
Neo-Victorianism on Campus
Is this the end of the collegiate bacchanal?
There are no sympathetic victims in the campus sex wars. While few boys are guilty of what most people understand as rape, many are guilty of acting as boorishly as they can get away with. Sexual liberation and radical feminism unleashed the current mess by misunderstanding male and female nature. Feminists may now be unwittingly... Continue Reading
Canadian Legislation Would Ban ‘Barbaric Cultural Practices’
Canada is weighing legislation that would ban arranged marriages of minors and make polygamy grounds for deportation
If passed into law, the measure will make it a criminal offense to participate in or officiate at the marriage of an underage child. Removing a child from Canada for the purposes of arranged marriage would also be a crime. In addition, those practicing polygamy would no longer be allowed to immigrate to Canada with... Continue Reading
Why Isn’t Millennial Support For Abortion Rights Increasing?
Exploring why young Americans are increasingly supporting gay marriage, but not abortion
Do you know who has the most accurate grasp of the number of abortions performed annually in this country? My pro-life friends. My pro-choice friends, in my limited experience, usually cannot come within half a million of the actual number. Now, you can argue that my pro-life friends are unusually well informed, and that’s true–I’m... Continue Reading
A Challenge to College Students: Be a Full-Time Student
Instead of 40 hours constituting a full-time schedule, college students average 29 hours; the data suggest that being a full-time student today is only a part-time job.
Being a full-time student is a privilege. Those who take advantage of that privilege will get the best opportunities. Investing in the future does not only mean getting the college diploma; it includes making wise choices throughout the college years, building the self-control, the habits, and the knowledge that will open doors of opportunities for... Continue Reading
Navy Faces Suit Over Denying Humanist Chaplain
Jason Heap is suing the Pentagon claiming unconstitutional discrimination for not being allowed to serve as a humanist chaplain
The suit claims the denial of chaplains “impairs the religious exercise of Humanists in the Navy.” Humanists make up 3.6 percent of the U.S. military, according to a survey by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, which is affiliated with the Pentagon. “Belief in divinity is not a litmus test for protection under federal law and... Continue Reading
Is This The End For Mideast Christianity?
For Mideast Christians, 2014 has been a year of bloody disaster
“How bad could this get? All local Christians know the answer. They look back at the experience of Jews, who flourished across the region just a century ago but have now vanished from virtually every Mideast nation outside Israel. Since 1950, Egypt’s Jewish population has shrunk from 100,000 to perhaps 50; Iraq’s, from 90,000 to... Continue Reading
The Unexpected Sacrifices Of The Mission Field
In my context, to put the work of the Gospel first essentially means that I must learn to prize and place the ministry of others above my own ministry
“We have missed our extended family – grandparents, aunt & uncles and cousins. We have experienced attempted break-ins to our house at night. Our car has been vandalized. Malaria has visited our family multiple times. While the joys abound, the challenges are manifold. Yet it has often been the unexpected challenges of the mission field... Continue Reading
Gay Marriage Bans In Four States Upheld, Supreme Court Review Likely
The 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed district court rulings that had struck down gay marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee
Sutton argued that appellate judges’ hands are tied by a one-sentence Supreme Court ruling from 1972, which “upheld the right of the people of a state to define marriage as they see it.” Last year’s high court decision requiring the federal government to recognize legal same-sex marriages does not negate the earlier ruling as it... Continue Reading
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