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05/22/2013What Happened to the Oklahoma Children Who Died?
As we watched the news coverage, many of us asked faith's hardest questions: Why did God allow such a tragedy? Why didn't he prevent it, or at least shelter these innocent, helpless children? What do we do now? And the question we'll address today: What happened to the children when they died?
25 comments - 05/17/2013
What Tim Tebow Will Do in the Future
Tim Tebow is America's most famous unemployed athlete. Since his release from the New York Jets, the Heisman Trophy winner has been without a team. What are his plans?
9 comments - 05/13/2013
My Questions About Atheist Churches
You probably attended church services yesterday. It's possible that an atheist you know did as well, in a way. The rise of "atheist churches" is an oxymoronic fact in our culture.
54 comments - 05/08/2013
Churches Trusted Less Than Supermarkets
According to a new survey, only 17 percent of adults in the U.K. believe the church has "their best interests at heart." This "trust rating" ranks religious institutions with Google and behind supermarkets. However, young people rank Google much higher than churches, giving the search engine a trust rating of 28 percent.
1 comments - 05/06/2013
Morning-After Pill to Be Sold to 15-Year-Olds
And "the pill" has produced other significant consequences. Seen as "one of the cornerstones of the sexual revolution," it led to a marked increase in the number of women who were sexually active before marriage. By the mid-1970s, the majority of newly married American couples were not virgins. Today America leads the industrialized world in teenage pregnancy; three out of 10 girls in our country become pregnant before the age of 20, 81 percent out of wedlock.
2 comments - 04/30/2013
Will Gay NBA Player Be Marketing Goldmine?
While many businesses and sports leagues are moving in this direction as quickly as they can, what about marketing directed at Christians? Our demographic has an estimated purchasing power of $5.1 trillion a year, more than six times larger than the LGBT market. While the homosexual demographic in America is estimated at 3.8 percent of the population (translating to 11.8 million people), there are 140 million Christian consumers in our country.
70 comments - 04/22/2013
Boston Bombing Suspects Are Terrorism Nightmare
"He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial." That's how a neighbor described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. To the names of Timothy McVeigh and Theodore Kaczynski we can now add the Tsarnaev brothers. They had given no indication of any anti-American sentiments.
15 comments - 04/16/2013
Boston Bombings: 2 Ways to Respond
The Boston Marathon is New England's most widely viewed sporting event. Over 500,000 people, 80 percent of Boston's population, show up to cheer on more than 20,000 runners. Begun in 1897, it's the world's oldest annual marathon. Until today, it was known for history and prestige. Now it will forever be known for tragedy as well.
18 comments - 04/15/2013
Tiger Woods Should Have Withdrawn
Yesterday's Masters Golf Tournament made history, as Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the sport's most prestigious championship. But the tournament will long be remembered for another reason as well: Tiger Woods' now-infamous rules infraction.
4 comments - 04/08/2013
Matthew Warren's Suicide and God's Grace
The announced sermon for yesterday's services at Saddleback Church was titled, "Surviving Tough Times." It was a theme Pastor Rick Warren planned earlier in the week. He had no way to know how appropriate his subject would be.
- 04/02/2013
Can Your Child Be Too Religious?
That's the title of an article now on Time's website. It begins: "Religion can be a source of comfort that improves well-being. But some kinds of religiosity could be a sign of deeper mental health issues." The article quotes a clinical psychologist who states, "Religion is related to the child having a higher sense of self esteem, better academic adjustment and lower rates of substance abuse and delinquent or criminal behavior."
31 comments - 04/01/2013
What You Can Do About Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court may strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. In addition, it may declare California's ban on gay marriage (Proposition 8) to be unconstitutional. We won't know the Court's decisions until June, but the ramifications of this issue are already affecting Christians in significant ways.
508 comments - 03/22/2013
Jesus Was Not Politically Correct
President Obama continues his Middle East tour today, amid signs of a warming relationship between himself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For instance, as the president and prime minister were preparing to inspect a missile system, they were told to walk along a red line on the airport tarmac. Remembering Mr. Netanyahu's repeated warnings about a "red line" in Iran's nuclear development, Mr. Obama pointed toward the prime minister and joked, "He's always talking to me about red lines." He added, "So this is all a psychological ploy." Chuckling, Mr. Netanyahu replied, "This was minutely planned."
22 comments - 03/21/2013
Kid President's Pep Talk Goes Viral
"Kid President" is a nine-year-old in Tennessee named Robby Novak. He has osteogenesis imperfecta, a disease that makes his bones brittle and has led to more than 70 broken bones and 13 surgeries. He has steel rods in both legs.
- 03/20/2013
Baptist University to Offer Sex Reassignment Surgery
Brown University was founded in 1764 by a group of Baptist ministers. It has held its commencement services in First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island (the first Baptist church in America) since 1776. Now it has become the 37th American college to include "sex reassignment surgeries" in its student health care plans.
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