Churches help people worship God, not institutions. States help people serve communities, not bureaucracies. However, things can get messy. Take January 20’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement that contraceptives must be included in the basic health insurance by employers who happen to be churches. A reasonable compromise is likely, but the [...]
THE PUBLIC AND PERSONAL PASTOR …how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house… ~Acts 20:20 Ever since I started seminary, I’ve always wondered about the balance that most pastors take between public and private ministry. As a pastor, people often ask [...]
You must log in to view and comment on this article… February 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a report it is presenting to a United Nations committee this week in Switzerland, the Brazilian government laments that, “The distancing from conservative positions in relation to the role of men and women in our society is happening [...]
February 15, 2012 In the summer of 2005, I directed a silent siege at the Amistad Memorial in New Haven, CT. The memorial honors a brave African, Sengbe Pieh, later known as Joseph Cinquie who led a revolt on the slave ship La Amistad. The kidnapped slaves murdered many aboard and forced the remaining crew [...]
Posted by Zach The simple answer is no. Now, I realize that this is offensive and there are already numerous objections that are rushing to your mind but, before you chase after me with torches and pitchforks, please allow me to address those objections. God holds us responsible for the authority he has given us. [...]
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report Monday, February 13, 2012 Current Headlines Top Stories • Catholic Bishops: Obama, Rescind Your Pro-Abortion Mandate • Planned Parenthood Doesn t Do Mammograms That Saved My Life • Mitt Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll, Santorum Places Second • Obama Mandate to Cost Insurance Companies $2.8B, Raise Rates More Pro-Life News • [...]
Homeschooling in Texas is awesome – because Texans are free of excess regulation that weigh on parents. The last thing you need when homeschooling is red tape! Another great thing about Texas is all the homeschool related events… from conferences to homeschool days at our amusement parks and museums – there’s so much to see [...]
TRENTON, NJ (CBSNewYork/AP) – New Jersey lawmakers gave their blessing to legalizing gay marriage for the first time Monday as the state Senate passed a bill that would allow nuptials for same-sex couples, despite Gov. Chris Christie‘s insistence that he will veto such legislation. The Senate’s 24-16 vote sends the bill to the Assembly, which [...]
HaaretzIn election-season Iran, domestic politics trump fear of Israeli attackHaaretzThese are important elections, not because they will draw a new political map in Iran, since most of those defined as reformists have decided to boycott them, but rather because they will determine the extent to which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will …Ahmadinejad jockeying to retain power [...]
Posted on February 13, 2012 | Category: Politics; Business, Sport http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Many people subscribe to the notion that Zimbabwe’s problems are premised on dictatorship, manifesting in lack of media and security-sector reforms amid a plethora of other political matrix backing-up the corrupt activities of those ensconced in comfortable public offices. While there may be some [...]
Posted by admin – curator – The Gallery on February 15, 2012 Vatican City Vatican City or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 [...]
More insanity for our times. These 68 small community Christian congregations that have been renting space in NYC public school buildings (when school is not in session) are being booted out because, heaven forbid!, the schools MAY then have to “rent to the Klu Klux Klan also!” (Why don’t they cross that bridge IF it [...]
In an historic visit to the Vatican, Baroness Warsi will express her “fear” about the marginalization of religion throughout Britain and Europe, saying that faith needs “a seat at the table in public life”. In an article for The Daily Telegraph, the Cabinet Office minister says that to create a “more just society” Britons must [...]
Part 1 Why Are Our Elites Silent?
According to the Guardian, UK Cabinet Minister Baroness Warsi’s speech to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy received a “rapturous reception” from the Holy See’s future diplomatic corp. Warsi – a Muslim - spoke of how her experience was enriched by the presence of Anglican Christianity in the UK’s public square: What truly enabled me to learn about [...]
Dr. Steve Lemke is Provost, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, and McFarland Chair of Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as Director of the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry, and the Editor of the Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry. Some years ago on a mission trip in St. Petersburg, [...]
Obama’s freshly unveiled 2013 budget includes a $770 million haul for “young democracies” in Islamic nations—places where it is known that Christians are being killed and persecuted due to the very Arab Spring that calls itself “democracy.” RT.com reports, The White House revealed its plans to help the Arab Spring states on Monday. The grim [...]
The Story: At least, that’s what some people would have you believe. Interestingly enough, this is an article that my mother posted on Facebook. She doesn’t usually post things like this but I really haven’t found a better article that demonstrates the Christian Persecution Complex quite like this. Let’s get into it, shall we? The [...]
Dear Editor, “No man is indispensible” goes the saying, no matter how remarkable, great or invaluable their contribution to society. With all the geniuses and extraordinary heavyweights who have passed on since time immemorial, not a single one has ever had such a commanding influence on nature’s course as to still the ticking of the [...]
Following a conference at Lambeth Palace, jointly convened in the summer by Their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury (Church of England) and the Archbishop of Westminster (Catholic), addressed by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem among many others from all faith communities in the Holy Land, the Archbishop of Canterbury, [...]
In recent days, the politics of Uganda have once again captured the attention of the global audience, as lawmaker David Bahati has sought to introduce a bill into the National Assembly that would call for homosexuals to face life imprisonment for their crimes. Three years ago, a similar bill, which also included the death penalty [...]
Canadian natives Joe and Marnie Scott had their work cut out for them. As CFI volunteers, their first assignment was to teach more than 75 children at the Freedom House in Thailand. “We didn’t speak the language and had to use an interpreter,” said Joe. “It was a lot of children and a huge barrier, [...]
Knightdale childcare facility hosts open house KNIGHTDALE – The Knightdale Christian Childcare Center is having an open house noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb 4. KCCC offers care for pre- school children ages six weeks to four-years-old and school age children ages 5-12. This center also offers first- and second-shift care along with weekend care. They also [...]
Print Email Text Size A Further Perspective Obama’s Dupes: The President’s Pro-Life Catholic Suckers By Paul Kengor on 2.14.12 @ 6:07AM A wake-up call for Kathy Dahlkemper and Democrats for Life. On March 24, 2010, President Obama, flagged by 13 beaming pro-life Democratic members of Congress, led by Michigan’s Bart Stupak, signed an executive order [...]
By Mark Jurgensmeyer, Religion Dispatches When Scott Roeder, the murderer of Wichita Kansas abortion clinic provider Dr. George Tiller, had his day in court, he spent much of his rambling self-defense quoting the words of another abortion clinic assassin, Reverend Paul Hill. In the 1990s my own research had brought me into conversation with others [...]
TULARE, Calif. – Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has a history of near-death experiences, and the former House speaker insists another resurrection is on its way. “I’m very happy to continue this campaign based on real solutions that … are going to attract a lot of Americans,” Gingrich said Monday while on a fundraising swing in [...]
WASHINGTON – A top adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign says Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has taken “divisive positions” on key social issues. David Axelrod tells “CBS This Morning” he believes voters don’t yet know Santorum very well. And he declines to speculate on how tough a race the former Pennsylvania senator could [...]
SAN ANTONIO – The Texas primaries, which were once key to emerging from next month’s Super Tuesday elections with the momentum and backing to win the Republican presidential race, may be pushed into May — and perhaps out of relevance for the race — because of a dispute over the state’s proposed redistricting maps. Although [...]
If we could peer into Mitt Romney’s brain, what would we see? What is he thinking? And what would he be saying if he could be totally honest? That’s what ABC News Political Director Amy Walter and Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian chewed over Wednesday on Top Line. Amy says the first thing [...]
Rick Santorum, currently polling as the frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, is out with a new Michigan ad that pokes fun at Romney for spending millions on negative advertising. “Mitt Romney’s negative attack machine is back, on full throttle. This time, Romney’s firing his mud at Rick Santorum,” says the voice [...]
President Obama’s performance in head-to-head matchups with his Republican competitors, especially Mitt Romney, have dramatically improved in recent weeks. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for People the Press, Obama went from being tied with Romney in trial heats last fall to holding an eight-point lead in the fresh batch of data [...]
ANALYSIS | The notion that House Republicans would hand a powerful weapon to a Democratic Party president seems surprising. What may be more surprising is why Obama really isn’t too excited about getting it. The initial thinking is that House Republicans are giving this power to the White House, not Obama per se. That’s because [...]
WASHINGTON – Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it’s a bit trickier. As lawmakers wade cautiously into writing the next five-year farm bill, agribusiness and farmers’ lobbyists are preparing for the worst. With little appetite for spending on Capitol Hill, subsidy cuts in the billions [...]
WASHINGTON – Congressional leaders are gauging lawmakers’ reactions to a tentative deal extending a 2 percentage-point payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, a pact bargainers reached after House Republicans conceded that the tax cut would not have to be paid for with spending cuts. Both sides cautioned late Tuesday that the agreement [...]
Written By : Alexa Shrugged From Alexa Shrugged: Ok, considering I only took about 20 pictures, this listing could have been better. I was so lame at CPAC this year that I didn’t even see John Hawkins long enough to make it into his post The CPAC 2012 Experience: 43 Pictures like I have in [...]
Written By : William Teach Of course, many in the media and the Democrat Party (but, I repeat myself) are portraying this as Republicans caving. Pretty much because this is about the only thing that Obama has done that is actually popular, to a degree. Why removing money from the Social Security fund is popular, [...]
Written By : William Teach Now, that would be a hell of a thing, the top “law enforcement” agent in the country slapped with a contempt charge (Daily Caller) On Tuesday Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in [...]
President Obama meets with Suaid King Abdullah at a G-20 summit in London on Thursday, April 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) – The plight of a young Saudi journalist accused of blaspheming Islam’s prophet on the Internet is prompting growing concern around the world, although the Obama administration has been silent on the case [...]
Keith Paladino of Lodi, N.J., second from left, works with a 15 inch Beagle as they line up in the ring for competition at the 136th annual Westminster Kepp_img type= NEW YORK (AP) — Malachy the Pekingese, whose smushed-in face frames a mop of flyaway fur and whose pace rivals a snail’s, is the fairest [...]
Copies of President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget arrive at the House Budget Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s 2013 budget will spend 1.5 times as much money on health care as on Defense, including the cost of the continuing war in Afghanistan in 2013. According to the budget proposal, Obama will [...]
The budget President Obama released this week demonstrates the administration’s detachment from our current fiscal situation. As a physician, I’m particularly concerned about the president’s refusal to offer a plan to reform Medicare so it will be here for future generations. The budget is a tremendous opportunity to create policy, yet the president’s budget of [...]
1.) In Obama’s America, chicken nuggets are healthy — Want further evidence that this is not your founding fathers’ America? TheDC’s Matthew Boyle depresses with his report: “A North Carolina elementary school forced a preschool student to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets for lunch on Jan. 30 after officials reportedly determined that her homemade meal wasn’t [...]
Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday. Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutor’s office, said early Wednesday some 356 people on the prison roster are unaccounted for among 852 prisoners. “The majority could be dead, though others [...]
Tom Goldstein Publisher Posted Tue, February 14th, 2012 2:04 pm A favorite topic of mine has always been potential nominations to the Court, both as to who might be picked and whether the nomination will or won’t succeed. But trying to prognosticate a few months ahead of a retirement is too simple; it is time [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In an unusual two-committee vote Tuesday evening, Maryland delegates grappled with several proposed amendments before voting 25-18 to send controversial same-sex marriage legislation to the full state House, where it could be debated as early as Wednesday. The 25 yes votes included the first in the state House by a Republican, Delegate [...]
At this university, most debates about reproductive morality center on abortion, so the furor last week regarding whether Catholic universities and hospitals needed to cover contraception in employee heath care plans may seem a more foreign concern. However, the debate illustrates an important clash between liberal and religious ethics over the scope of the state’s [...]
By JASON L. RILEY In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it’s passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in [...]
Joseph Kelley said his son Rashawn was struggling in D.C. public schools before his scholarship. “Either he doesn’t get it, or he doesn’t care,” Sheila Jackson, parent of a D.C. Opportunity Scholarship recipient, said upon hearing the news that President Obama’s budget eliminates funding for the popular program. Jackson sounded torn about which was worse. [...]
Security camera images show three men who Thai police suspect were involved in bomb blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday. Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET: Iran claimed Wednesday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear [...]