God wants you to be so engaged in your prayer life that you are able to make an argument for your requests. It is as if God is asking you “Why?” to the things you pray for. “Why do you want me to heal you?” “Why do you want to get this job?” “Why do... Continue Reading

The Romeikes worried authorities could take custody of their children. It wasn’t an unfounded fear. In 2007, German authorities took custody of Melissa Busekros, a 15-year-old girl from a homeschooling family in Bavaria. Authorities placed the girl in a psychiatric facility, and then in foster care. When she turned 16—and legally could decide where to... Continue Reading

The youngest known patient being treated in the UK is a four-year-old girl from the South East. Her parents enrolled her for compulsive behaviour therapy after she became increasingly “distressed and inconsolable” when the iPad was taken away from her. Her use of the device had escalated over the course of a year and she... Continue Reading

Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a Defense Department spokesman, said the military’s software filters detected malware at SBC.net and blocked the website. The malware since has been removed off the website, and the denomination’s website unblocked, he said. “The Department of Defense is not intentionally blocking access to this site,” Pickart told The Tennessean in an... Continue Reading

I’ve observed that a common denominator among women in the lifestyle is that they “don’t feel like they belong.” When I mentioned this observation to a woman at a residential home, she said that it described exactly how she felt on the street. A feeling of not belonging: how central that is to the human... Continue Reading

Dr. Kass sometimes finds himself at odds with [pro-life] advocates. The movement’s narrow focus on nascent life, he worries, blinds it to the fact that “abortion is connected to lots of other things that are threats to human dignity in its fullness. Pursuing perfect babies, ageless bodies and happy souls with the aid of cloning,... Continue Reading

The definition of marriage is plastic. Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less “correct” than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults. Though polygamists are a minority—a tiny minority, in fact—freedom has no value unless it extends... Continue Reading

A few days before the Muslim Brotherhood leader’s election, he spoke to his followers on television ensuring them that Egypt’s new constitution “would reflect true sharia.” Islamic supremacists believe that they now have not only a moral obligation to wage jihad against Egypt’s indigenous Christian population, but they have legal carte blanche, as well. In... Continue Reading

Perhaps men aren’t meant to leave their families for over 40 hours a week to pursue a career. With the Industrial Revolution, “the working, teaching father ha[s] gone extinct.” Fathers are unnaturally “displaced” from their homes, so their sons never observe them working and learn from that example. This, MacPherson said, leads to a confused... Continue Reading

SB 323 would remove certain State tax exemptions for public charity youth organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or religious affiliation. While the target of this bill is the Boy Scouts (the Committee’s official analysis says, “It is clearly aimed at them”) its effects are much wider... Continue Reading