Archive for May, 2013
Commentary and News
10 Commandments judge seeks his old job back
You might think a candidate’s ouster from the post he is seeking to regain would play a central role in a statewide election. Yet Republican Roy Moore’s forced exit, almost a decade ago, as Alabama’s chief jus...
News
Doctors try to save remaining eye of Ugandan pastor
While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church. Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, I...
Indictment of ‘masterminds’ of murders in Turkey expected
Judges in Turkey’s southeastern city of Malatya have announced the preparation of an indictment in the case of three murdered Christians that is expected to reveal a shadowy network that incited five young men to carry out the ...
Commentary and News
Breakaway bishop who denounced gay bishop found murdered in Brazil
A conservative Brazilian bishop who broke away from his church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire was found murdered with his wife in the northeastern town of Olinda, according to the diocese. Bishop...
Commentary and News
Franklin Graham apologizes for questioning Obama’s faith
Evangelist Franklin Graham apologized tonight to President Obama for questioning his Christian faith and said religion has “nothing to do” with Graham’s decision not to support Obama’s re-election. Graha...
Commentary and News
After months of wrangling, occupiers evicted from St. Paul’s Cathedral
Police on Tuesday (Feb. 28) evicted scores of demonstrators from a makeshift tent city they had erected outside historic St. Paul’s Cathedral more than four months ago as part of a global protest against capitalism. After...
Christian Living
Think Again: Bad Journalism
By Benjamin O’Loughlin When a journalist gets his data wrong, that’s called bad research. But when a major newspaper weighs in on a nationwide debate and systematically distorts the issues at stake, that can’t be chalked ...
Christian Living
Walking the Tightrope: Barbie, Barbie on my floor
By Father Nathan Miller Although the over sexualization of our culture has seeped into many a child’s box of toys, parents would continue to answer with an emphatic “NO” to the following 2 questions:“Would you invite a 20-year-...
Pakistani Muslims employ ‘blasphemy’ threat in land grab
Tensions are still high in a village near here following Muslims’ attempt to seize land from a Christian family by threatening to accuse them of “blasphemy.” What began on Feb. 19 as a quarrel over a pigeon between Christian an...
Featured
Splinter churches realign mainline Protestantism
There’s a popular saying in church-planting circles: It’s easier to make babies than to raise the dead. That principle applies to denominations as well, said the Rev. Paul Detterman, who helped found the Evangelical...