Leave a Comment What does it mean to repent? When our Lord Jesus Christ began His public preaching,he began with the word ‘repent.’ From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17) If we are to repent, then we need to know our sinfulness. That’s [...]
Standard insurance plans offered in Alabama would not cover elective abortions if a bill offered by state Sen. Shadrack McGill becomes law. McGill, R-Woodville, has filed Senate Bill 20, which would prohibit health insurance coverage of elective abortions unless the insured person has paid additional money for an abortion rider. McGill has said anti-abortion bills [...]
The online producers at CBS posted a photo slideshow the other day that appeared under the following rather literal headline: Activists Hold Annual March For Life On Roe v. Wade Anniversary So, just thinking out loud, what percentage of the pictures in this gallery would you expect to be of, well, the thousands and thousands [...]
« NARAL’s “Blog For Choice Day” Flops | Home Father Frank Pavone At The 2012 March For Life January 28, 2012 Why Father Frank is the heart and soul of the pro-life movement The 2012 March For Life in Washington DC was the largest by far. Crowd estimates exceed 400,000 participants, topping last year’s march [...]
The Republican presidential candidates sparred over the issue of abortion in tonight’s GOP presidential debate. Below, LifeNews is bringing you the unfiltered debate transcript showing that exchange. Ultimately, each Republican presidential candidate could be called into question for criticism over the pro-life views. Romney could be said to be not authentic on his pro-life conversion [...]
There is one place to be in March if you are a Christian Homeschool parent, and I get to be there. Where Spartanburg, South Carolina at the Teach Them Diligently Convention “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. And these [...]
Here are events/developments on the long path that has put Washington on the verge of legalizing same-sex marriage: – 1976: The Dorian Group, a lunch gathering for Seattle’s gay and lesbian business folk, publicizes its existence at a lunch featuring Republican U.S. Rep. Joel Pritchard. First talk of gay civil rights bill for Washington State. [...]
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Kansas City StarAbortion politics has nothing to do with breast cancerAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)But because of this move, an apolitical cause that united men and women of all political philosophies is now in danger of being subsumed into a bitterly political war. For no apparent reason, the Komen organization has taken sides in a fight [...]
The people calling for an end to military rule are Egyptians who along with the Brotherhood fought for freedom against Mubarak, but want to have a society where people belonging to all religions, not only one, are treated equally. The junta has been responsible for dozens of deaths in the past year, including driving people [...]
– Martin E. Marty “To hell with you!” is the message of the government to churches. So reasoned or charged Pittsburgh Catholic bishop David Zubik last week. He was reflecting on new federal rules that would force employers to include access to contraception (and sterilization) in health-insurance coverage for employees. “To hell with you!” [...]
Over a thousand churchgoers protested against a recent decision by the New York City Public School system that prohibits churches from renting school facilities. “The city’s Department of Education is set to evict the estimated 17,000 people in just two weeks because of a policy banning worship services in public schools.” Over 60 congregations use [...]
by Dr. Curtis Lehmann Unless you have been living in a cave, you have probably heard about Tim Tebow, quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He has been a polarizing figure because of his forthcoming and conspicuous admission of his faith in Jesus Christ. Some have complimented his public displays of faith, while others, even Christians, [...]
Click here to advertise in this spot on CatholicCulture.org. Indian bishops to discuss ‘population explosion,’ persecution of Christians January 31, 2012 From Our Store: Essays in Apologetics, Volume I (eBook) When India’s bishops meet in Bangalore during the first week in February, they will discuss “the role of the Church for a better India.” While [...]
On Education: Removing God from Pledge of Allegiance assaults our identity There is no attack on American culture more destructive and more historically dishonest than the relentless effort to drive God out of America’s public square. The 2002 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the phrase “under God” is unconstitutional represents [...]
Christian Student May Present Her Discrimination Suit Weekly summary of world news Norm Olson January 31, 2012 Reading: Christian Student May Present Her Discrimination Suit Photo by Alliance Defense Fund The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former Eastern Michigan University student has the right to present her religious discrimination suit [...]
Christianity began as a truly benevolent and heartfelt religion based on charity, love, and acceptance. Jesus himself, as portrayed in the Bible at least, was the epitome of all of these things. He was almost enamored by the outcasts of society and shunned those in power, the wealthy, and those in government. He spent [...]
Christians in Crisis The Iranian Mohabat Christian News Agency has reported that harsh sentences are being given to converts with an Islamic background. Before the Iranian revolution Christians and other faiths were able to speak openly. That no longer is the case. The persecution is forcing Christians and others, especially those who converted from Islam, [...]
ASSIST News Service (ANS) – PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net — E-mail: assistnews@aol.com Monday, January 30, 2012 A Pakistani Christian leader had told the believers of his country, ‘We need to come out of our self-pity and minority syndrome’ By Rodrick Samson Special to ASSIST News [...]
Vocal Artistry honors Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr. with a multimedia concert experience, “peacemakers,” on February 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church at 1735 Jackson St in Downtown Fort Myers. As with all Vocal Artistry concerts, this event is choral music for a cause. Lee Interfaith For [...]
The AIACC has developed legislative language to provide design professionals indemnification/duty-to-defend relief in the post-Crawford world. Simply put, the California Supreme Court ruled in Crawford a few years ago that unless contract language specifically states otherwise, a contractual obligation to indemnify includes the duty to defend upon demand by the client whenever there is a [...]
Posted January 31st, 2012 by Evan Hurst I will not make the obvious joke, because it is too obvious: Here is the very long press release from Pastor Steven Andrew’s organization: Christians Boycott Starbucks — Because Romans 1 Explains Starbucks Hates God Contact: Pastor Steven Andrew, USA Christian Ministries, 877-537-8734 SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, [...]
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Let’s remove our focus from ourselves and place it on God alone. I hope these short devotions help you do so. Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
The University Bookman asked me to review D.G. Hart’s book on how evangelicals have subverted conservative politics. While I appreciate his strength of mind and his craft, I disagree with his thesis that striving for something like a biblical politics is a non-starter. Here’s a clip: As a professor at a Christian college, I must [...]
TAMPA, Fla. – Mitt Romney embraced a killer instinct and leveraged a dominant political machine to crush chief rival Newt Gingrich in Florida’s Republican presidential primary. It was a remarkable turnaround for a candidate who lost big just 10 days earlier in South Carolina. “I stand ready to lead this party and our nation,” a [...]
Newt Gingrich leads the competition for comebacks with two in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He’ll need one more, and soon, if he’s going to make good on his vow to remain a credible contender until the party convention next summer. With a lopsided loss to Mitt Romney in the Florida primary on [...]
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he’s “not concerned about the very poor” because they have an “ample safety net” and he’s focused instead on relieving the suffering of middle-class people hit hard by the bad economy. In comments likely to become fodder for his critics, Romney emphasized, “You can focus [...]
Fresh off his double-digit victory in Tuesday’s Florida Republican primary, a chipper Mitt Romney hit the morning talk-show circuit on Wednesday, appearing on the “Today” show, “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” “Fox and Friends” and CNN’s “Starting Point” via satellite from Tampa. With Newt Gingrich vowing to stay in the race until the Republican [...]
TAMPA, Fla. – Barreling out of Florida with money and momentum on his side, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the bare-knuckled nomination fight thus far has toughened him up for contests to come. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is regrouping after a significant loss and faces serious disadvantages in the next states to [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Whenever Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been down and in need of an enforcer, one has been there. Restore Our Future, the independent “Super PAC” that supports Romney’s campaign, has been a machine of destruction in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, swamping Republican rival Newt Gingrich with attack [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday sought to blunt political attacks on the Obama administration over a botched gun sting operation, saying that the idea of allowing weapons to go across the border to Mexico came from field agents and prosecutors. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee issued a [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Longtime Indiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton, chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, announced on Tuesday he will not seek a 16th term in office. Burton, accompanied by his brother, State Representative Woody Burton, made the announcement at the state legislature where his political career began. First elected to [...]
WASHINGTON – An agreement on a bill to provide operating authority for the Federal Aviation Administration over the next four years and to boost the agency’s air traffic modernization effort was reached Tuesday by House and Senate negotiators, culminating a five-year struggle that included a partial shutdown of the agency. The bill authorizes $63 billion [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Thoreau was brilliant and Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) is a classic book; so I was glad to finally get around to reading it. After reading the book, my conclusion is that Walden was quite uneven. In some places, you marvel at the wonder of Thoreau [...]
Written By : William Teach Personally, like Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz, I tend to avoid the abortion debate, mostly because it is not one of my core political interests. That said, watching Liberals go apoplectic, bat guano crazy, and spin like a neutron star is one of more core blogging interests, and this story [...]
Written By : William Teach And the results from Florida are (Fox News) Romney received 46 percent of the Florida vote. Gingrich had 32 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent. Romney won all 50 of Florida’s convention delegates. The Politico’s Maggie Haberman, who has done a pretty [...]
If the erratic Newt Gingrich is the perfect foil for the hyper-organized Mitt Romney, then Mitt Romney might just be the perfect foil for Barack Obama. Consider three recent quotes, which — while taken out of context — are not misquotes. “I’m not concerned about the very poor…” (From CNN this morning.) “I like being [...]
(Reuters) – The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war. Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, confirmed [...]
Leslie Carter, sister to Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died Tuesday in upstate New York. “Our family is grieving right now and it’s a private matter,” a spokesperson for the family told Access Hollywood. “We are deeply saddened for the loss of our beloved sister, daughter, and granddaughter, Leslie Carter. We [...]
Amy Howe Editor Posted Wed, February 1st, 2012 10:34 am The Justices are now in their mid-term recess, setting us up for several weeks in which we will not get any new opinions or orders. But before starting their break, the Justices gave us a parting gift: three opinions in argued cases. And the debate [...]
The executive director of Freedom to Marry, a long-running national advocacy group for same-sex marriage, might consider eating his own words as the Washington state Senate votes Wednesday on marriage equality. “If you start by asking for half a loaf, you will be down to crumbs pretty quickly,” attorney Evan Wolfson warned during a 2006 [...]
“A direct attack on religious liberty.” Echoing the words of many Catholic authorities and their socially conservative allies, that’s what Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Mitt Romney, has said about a new rule announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. By Aug. 1 of this year, says the rule, all private health [...]
” Sorry if this is a duplicate, the system doesn’t like me today LOL Seems to me he and the teachers union don’t want us to find out Charter (public) school’s can do a better job for less cost. If they can make a profit while doing a better job of educating our students…good for [...]
St. Paul administrators and school board members indicated Tuesday that they will work to ensure student diversity in high-demand schools by reserving spots for applicants from neighborhoods with low income, poor English language skills and low test scores. The unique school choice program was presented to administrators in December by an “integration/choice” committee made up [...]
World Published February 01, 2012 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet AP Feb. 1: Israel’s President Shimon Peres, left, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are seen reflected in a door’s mirror as they speak at a Jerusalem hotel. JERUSALEM – The U.N. chief has told Israel the international standoff over [...]
JERUSALEM — It’s now official: January 2012 was the rainiest January in Israel’s recorded history. This joyous fact, in a drought-hardened Middle East, is what Israel’s political analysts focused on early Wednesday, after precious little sleep, when reporting on the “idiotic” results of the Likud party primary that was won, unsurprisingly, by Benjamin Netanyahu. The [...]
The Palestinians have demanded a halt in settlement construction before returning to the negotiating table. Last month’s low-level discussions, mediated by Jordan, ended without any Israeli commitment to freeze settlement building or progress on other issues, like proposed borders and security arrangements. The Palestinians have not yet decided whether to continue the talks.
Gov. Mitt Romney’s big win in Florida is not just important because of the momentum or winner-take-all, whopping 50 GOP convention delegates he will receive. It shows that evangelicals, Catholics, social conservatives, and Tea Party supporters are coalescing around one candidate, Mitt Romney. Buried in the exit polls from Romney’s nearly 15 point win over [...]
e-mail this to a friend printable version » 02/01/2012 13:21IRAQ – CHINAKirkuk: Christians in prayer for release of Chinese bishops and priestsby Louis Sako *Msgr. Sako, AsiaNews joins the campaign and calls on the local community to show “sincere and fraternal” sympathy and closeness. In the persecutions and looking to the martyrs, the prelate explains, [...]