I thought this was a piece of satire when I first read it. But it’s true!
The Houston Chronicle reported that Houston Mayor Annise Parker signed off on subpoenas issued to five local preachers.
And what did the city and the Mayor want from the preachers? Continue reading
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“I am a Christian,” Meriam Ibrahim told the judge at her sentencing hearing in May, “and I will remain a Christian.”
The case of the 27-year-old Sudanese woman sparked international outrage when she was sentenced to die by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. At the time she was eight months pregnant and has since given birth to a baby girl. Continue reading
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One of our regular readers, Stephen, recently responded to my post last week, “What is Truth?”
“But how you (and other socially conservative Christians) commonly define “Truth” in rigid absolute right/wrong terms sometimes pushes me away,” Stephen wrote. “In saying that God’s “Truth” is absolutely clear-cut creates the Todd Aikens of this world.” Continue reading
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the first degree murder conviction in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor.
He was found guilty of murdering three babies born alive in his abortion clinic by severing their spines with scissors following delivery. And convicted on two counts of gross negligence of two mothers. In addition Gosnell was convicted for killing 21 babies in utero, which is not murder in these cases, but a violation of Pennsylvania’s legal-abortion limit. Continue reading
It was predictable. In fact, police were prepared in both Lexington, KY and Storrs, CT.
Following Monday night’s NCAA championship basketball game, thousands of disappointed Cat fans spilled out into the streets, lighting fires, burning player jerseys and spewing out profanities. Lexington police were dispatched and used tear gas to control rowdy fans following the UK loss to UConn. Continue reading
The much-anticipated movie “Noah” debuted this past week-end. The film was a #1 box-office hit, raking in $44 million. Director Darren Aronofsky, an avowed atheist, created controversy by saying his film was “the least biblical, biblical movie ever made.”
Reaction has been mixed, both among critics and Christians. Continue reading
“March Madness” has arrived! No, I’m not talking about the NCAA Basketball Tournament. But the annual “rite of passage” for many college students called “Spring Break”
This hedonistic, decadent, not-stop party extends from Miami’s South Beach, to South Padre Island and from Las Vegas to New Orleans. Various web articles tout the following headlines: Continue reading
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” recently spouted “this is a stupid country” because 60% of Americans believe in the Biblical narrative of Noah.
Regarding the upcoming movie “Noah”, Maher ranted that the Bible story was false and “immoral.” “It’s about a psychotic mass murderer who gets away with it and his name is God,” declared the avowed atheist. Continue reading
Phillip Yancey, in his book “The Jesus I Never Knew,” tells about a Texas A & M professor, Virginia Owens, who assigned her students to write a short essay on the sermon on the mount. Here’s a sample of some of the student’s reactions: Continue reading
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(Note: We are taking a “holiday break” and re-posting the top 9 posts in 2013 based on the number of hits. Although only posted a month ago, this one came in at #9)
“We are not a vulgar culture,” said Bill Cosby in a speech at Tuskegee University earlier this month. Continue reading
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