The Berean Call

NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school [Excerpts]

An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.

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Así dice el Señor: Deténganse en los caminos y miren; pregunten por los senderos antiguos. Pregunten por el buen camino, y no se aparten de él. Así hallarán el descanso anhelado. Pero ellos dijeron: No lo seguiremos. Yo aposté centinelas para ustedes, y dije: Presten atención al toque de trompeta. Pero ellos dijeron: No prestaremos atención". (Jeremías 6:16-17).

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"There's a big change that's taken place as far as evangelicals not wanting to be as exclusive. … When you're trying to market Jesus, sometimes there's a tendency to mute traditional Christian symbols. Difficult doctrines are left by the wayside. Hell is a morally repugnant doctrine. People wonder why God would send people to eternal punishment.

Buddhism strengthens ties to church [Excerpts]
What in the recent past seemed exotic and foreign is now almost routinely folded into "the fold."

APA 'ignoring the science' on homosexual reparative therapy [Excerpts]
A Christian attorney says the American Psychological Association's rejection of therapy designed to help homosexuals leave their lifestyle is "devoid of science, reality and the common practices of a counselor."

Professor Pinker engages in wishful thinking -- dissent is significant among chemists and chemical engineers [Excerpts]

Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town of Standish [Excerpts]

To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists.

Electricity is often called wonderful, beautiful; but it is so only in common with the other forces of nature. The beauty of electricity or of any other force is not that the power is mysterious, and unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under law, and that the taught intellect can even govern it largely.

Today’s Youth—Walking Away from Truth [Excerpts]

Why do young people walk away from the church after years of faithful attendance and involvement? The main reason may be that the curriculum used in most Sunday schools is simply telling Bible stories and not teaching how to defend the truths of Scripture.