N Is for Nazareth
Christians around the world are changing their social media avatars to the arabic letter “n.”
“Nazareth, though, reminds us that God’s purposes are global, transcending our tribal and national categories. When Jesus preached in his hometown synagogue in Nazareth, he was received with joy and awe, until he told his fellow villagers that they really didn’t understand what he was saying. Jesus demonstrated that God’s purposes had always gone “outside... Continue Reading
Persecuted Christians and You
Do we care about persecuted Christians around the world?
“No one has a more legitimate claim on our concern than severely-persecuted Christians, wherever they may be found. They are especially precious in the Lord’s sight, and they suffer the greatest injustice. With them in mind, Scripture says the world is not worthy of them (Heb 11.38). And what could be more unjust than violence... Continue Reading
Trumpeting a Dinosaur Horn
A partially fossilized triceratops horn offers evidence the animal lived less than 65 million years ago, say scientists who discovered it
“These are real dinosaur tissues, loaded with real dinosaur cells,” Anderson said. “How is it they were preserved?” He believes the preservation of soft tissue challenges the assumption that the fossil is at least 65 million years old. According to the evolutionary timescale, triceratops lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period, which would have... Continue Reading
University Fires Scientist After Dinosaur Discovery Offers Young Earth Evidence
California State University, Northridge fires scientist after he publicized discovery that suggests dinosaurs roamed America thousands of years ago, rather than the millions most evolutionists cite
Mark Armitage, who specializes in microscopic evidence for a young earth, unexpectedly stumbled upon soft tissue in a triceratops fossil and wrote about his discovery for a scientific journal. Two weeks later, he was out of a job. Armitage filed suit against the university’s board of trustees on Tuesday, citing wrongful termination and religious discrimination.... Continue Reading
The Big Bang’s Big Problem Bedevils Researchers
If the Big Bang theory is correct, our universe should not exist, according to research published last month
The researchers of the current study combined data from observations made possible by the BICEP2 telescope with new information developed from the discovery of the Higgs Boson, a particle thought to be responsible for the mass of everything that exists. The scientists said the universe lies in a valley of the Higgs Field, an energy... Continue Reading
Religious Freedom vs. LGBT Rights? It’s More Complicated
The legal context for what's happening at Gordon College, and how Christians can respond despite intense cultural backlash.
The argument for pluralism and the aspirations of tolerance, humility, and patience are fully consistent with a faithful Christian witness. And in this age, they are also far likelier to resonate than arguments for religious exceptionalism. The claim of religious exceptionalism is that only believers should benefit from special protections, and often at the cost... Continue Reading
Government Survey: Gay Population Smaller Than Previously Thought
Less than 4 percent of the U.S. population identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
Based on 2013 data collected by the government in The National Health Interview Survey, 1.6 percent of adults identify as gay or lesbian and 0.7 percent identify as bisexual. The numbers were lower than earlier approximations, which placed gay and lesbians at closer to 3 percent of the population. (WNS)–Less than 4 percent of... Continue Reading
‘Stamp Them Out’: On Josh Barro and the New Sexual Moralism
New York Times reporter Josh Barro tweeted out: “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly.”
In these tweets, Barro has shared his honest opinion: that the New Sexual Moralism will tolerate no dissent. We commend him, gravely, for his honesty. The logic of this sentiment leads to exactly one conclusion: When it comes to promoting gay rights, all must come to heel. There will be no debate. There will be... Continue Reading
A Line Crossed in the Middle East
What the end of Christianity in Mosul means for Christians everywhere
In the Middle East, secular dictatorships can be very brutal. But, bad as they are, they are often the only thing that stands in the way of the absolute destruction of minority religious communities. Toppling such dictatorships and hoping for their replacement by “moderates” is not a good bet. Incredibly, this seems to be a... Continue Reading
Can Gay Love Really Be Straight? A Reply to Mark Joseph Stern
Can the homosexual form of sexual desire support the society’s most important institution in the same way that the heterosexual form of sexual desire does?
And it definitely does not mean that in the long run gay culture can cultivate and sustain the attitudes, behaviors, and norms that will conform gays to the ideal of marriage rather than reform marriage to the realities of homosexuality. Individual gays cannot remake homosexuality to fit the marital paradigm any more than individual heterosexuals... Continue Reading
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