The court said the law “effectively bans all medication abortions” because the FDA regulations are medically outdated.   With a clarified decision from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court can now consider whether to hear arguments in a case it granted for this term, Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, concerning the regulation of... Continue Reading

What is the takeaway for publishers? “It’s counterintuitive, because you’d think success is good, but the problem is too much success,” Le Peau said. “Every product has a bell curve, and all bell curves have a downslope.”   The Message, published in 2002, is still the ninth best-selling Bible translation, according to the Evangelical Christian... Continue Reading

If the affair has gone on for a long period of time (several months) and the emotional/relational side has developed, it will be more challenging. It may take much longer to deal with the implications and consequences on the marriage. The longer someone is in an affair, the more deluded they are about needing the... Continue Reading

According to Duguid, we live in a Disney-deluded world in which we are taught to believe that we can be and do anything we please. But this make-believe fairy tale inevitably collides with reality. We are limited, weak and sinful people whose default mode it is to live for self.  Just like the Barbie doll,... Continue Reading

Today, fewer and fewer people on the liberal side of questions of marriage and sexual ethics are even pretending to have moral objections to polyamorous sexual relationships or their recognition. Increasingly, the pretense is not regarded as politically necessary. “Poly” groups no longer need to be pushed into the closet in order to depict redefining marriage... Continue Reading

“The terrifying reality we’re facing is that the worst-equipped people you could possibly imagine may actually be forced to take care of their children,” Miller said. Parents who have decided to school-home their children have echoed many of Miller’s concerns. Most said that an alarming number of legal guardians such as themselves lack the most... Continue Reading

ADF has called for the case to be dismissed, citing failure to meet detailed requirements of the statute the suit is built on. Plaintiffs, ADF said, haven’t “a single instance” of intentionally false documents filed by the churches. The main evidence plaintiffs cite simply shows churches potentially overstaying their contracted time slots.   Hawaii atheists... Continue Reading

Texas district Judge Elizabeth E. Coker is stepping down from the bench after being caught engaging in a massive perversion of justice. A whistleblower revealed that Corker was sending text messages to prosecutors with suggestions on questions to ask in court in order to secure a conviction.    State District Judge Elizabeth E. Coker–who sits on the... Continue Reading

Martin Luther’s rediscovery of this truth led to a whole host of other church and societal reforms and much of what we take for granted in the West would have likely been impossible had he never graced the scene. Luther’s translation of the Bible into German put the Word of God in the hands of... Continue Reading

“It’s striking that Paul regards ‘divisiveness’ as those who depart from sound doctrine.” While we might define “divisiveness” as taking a strict stance on doctrines, Paul’s definition was the opposite. Divisiveness, for Paul, was anything that went loosey-goosey with the given gospel.   This weekend I had the fantastic opportunity to listen to and lunch... Continue Reading