As to how companies or brands can tap into the faith-based market, Stielstra recommends becoming a trusted name in churches, first and foremost. That may mean sitting down with local pastors and presenting your product and explaining how it can be beneficial to his or her congregation. While big companies such as Forever21 and In-N-Out... Continue Reading

53% were categorized as successful outcomes; specifically, 23% reported success in the form of successful “conversion” to heterosexual orientation and functioning, while an additional 30% reported stable behavioral chastity Many professional voices proclaim that it is impossible to change homosexual orientation, and that the attempt to change is commonly and inherently harmful. Psychologists Stanton L.... Continue Reading

Gay “marriage” ceremonies may be conducted on military bases by military chaplains, the Pentagon announced in a controversial decision Sept. 30. Critics said the new policy violates the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage in federal law as being only between a man and a woman. The Department of Defense (DOD) made clear... Continue Reading

According to a letter leaked this morning, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has launched an investigation into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to determine whether the abortion organization handles criminal conduct properly, or has mishandled federal funding to pay for abortions. A letter to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards leaked to... Continue Reading

Career counselors at Christian colleges stress faith, perseverance in face of worst job market in decades Students graduating from college in the next few years face the worst job market since World War II, according to census data released in September. Just slightly more than half of young adults under 30 — 55.3 percent —... Continue Reading

One of his arguments is that contemporary evangelical advocates of spanking (e.g., James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Wayne Grudem, Albert Mohler, Andreas Köstenberger, Paul Wegner) have gone “beyond the Bible” and “softened” what the Bible really teaches about corporal punishment. William Webb’s first book, Slaves, Women and Homosexuals(IVP, 2001), advocated a “redemptive-movement hermeneutic.” He... Continue Reading

Religious deal providers are banking on the idea that deep discounts for targeted niche markets will be more relevant to consumers, and generate higher redemption rates by consumers and interest by merchants. Social deals are going spiritual. Inspired by their religious callings—and the $713 million in revenue that social deal pioneer Groupon took in last... Continue Reading

Which is why it is possible that the problem afflicting the evangelicals at the Gospel Coalition is one of sentimentality. That is, they value feelings more than doctrine. One of the arresting aspects of marriage is that if a husband tells his wife she should watch her weight the wife gets angry. And then if... Continue Reading

Because of the curse, we are to work by the sweat of our brow until we cannot do it anymore, at which time we ourselves return to the ground. So, the curse actually makes us act as if hard work is a way to stave off death. Soon after our second child was born, one... Continue Reading

Apple officials acted only after a gay rights groups organized a petition protesting the app that attracted 146,000 signatures. But the NRB report said that Apple’s policies were “dangerously overboard and vague … and are, in some instances, viewpoint-censorious on the subject of religion.” New Internet media giants such as Facebook, Apple and Google are... Continue Reading