Leaders in China are unhappy about this week’s International Religious Freedom Report by the U.S., which has continued to criticize China for not allowing its people to worship and practice their own religion. Chinese Catholics worship at the government-sanctioned North Cathedral of the National Patriotic Church in Beijing July 1, 2007. Pope Benedict called on... Continue Reading

“Hold on, let’s back up,” School Board Chairman J.B. Buckland said today when asked about the Ten Commandments lawsuit. “We don’t have no (sic) Ten Commandments. We have historical documents up.” Three months after it tempted litigation by voting to display the Ten Commandments in public schools, the Giles County School Board finds itself in... Continue Reading

A bill repealing New Hampshire’s gay “marriage” law passed a House subcommittee by a vote of 3-1 Wednesday, potentially putting the state on track to becoming the first one to repeal such a law via the legislature. The bill, H.B. 437, would repeal the controversial 2009 law that passed when Democrats controlled the legislature. Republicans... Continue Reading

In a victory for free speech, Judge Stoudt of the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond has dismissed the Commonwealth of Virginia’s case against Nathan Cox, an Iraq War veteran and civil activist, who was issued a citation for disorderly conduct after he used a bullhorn to call out to a police officer who... Continue Reading

Nearly a year after a surge of bullying-related teen suicides grabbed the nation’s attention, a wave of lawsuits have been filed by parents, seeking protection of their children and other students from verbal and physical abuse at the hands of their peers. Parents in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, New Jersey, Minnesota, and even Ontario, Canada are taking... Continue Reading

An Alberta judge has let a woman who strangled her newborn son walk free by arguing that Canada’s absence of a law on abortion signals that Canadians “sympathize” with the mother. “We live in a country where there is no protection for children in the womb right up until birth and now this judge has... Continue Reading

In this country, 7.5 million couples share breakfast, dinner, laundry, a Netflix membership, and a bed. But they aren’t married. According to the U.S. Census bureau, the number of cohabiting couples increased approximately 13% from 2009 to 2010. Statistics can’t always accurately unearth motivations for behavior, but researchers have been trying. In her 2010 report... Continue Reading

Remembering 9/11 – Shanksville, the site of Flight 93’s crash, gets a national makeover in time for the 10th anniversary of remembering its heroes. SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa.—The pilgrimages here started soon after the attacks. Local resident Donna Glessner remembers seeing visitors navigating Somerset County’s rural roads with maps spread out on their dashboards. Many ended... Continue Reading

“How do we share the gospel with Muslims?” It’s a question I’m frequently asked. Beneath the question usually lie one or two deeper concerns. Either the thought of “Muslim evangelism” scares the questioner, or the questioner wants a special method for sharing the gospel, revealing a lack of confidence in the gospel itself. In 2005,... Continue Reading

A terrific book, the kind that lights my fire, encompassing seventeenth century issues furthering the cause of the Reformation. Controversies there were aplenty, some crossing confessional boundaries, others not so much. Drawn Into Controversie: Reformed Theological Diversity and Debates Within Seventeenth-Century British Puritanism. Edited A. G. Haykin and Mark Jones (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011) A... Continue Reading