October 2008

Church apologizes to Darwin

October 23, 2008

Church to Charles Darwin: We're sorry we doubted you [Excerpts] Some say the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is making a monkey of himself with a half-baked apology to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding the author of "Origin of the Species" 126 years after his death. Nevertheless, that's just what the...Read more

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Biologized Religion

October 22, 2008

What Happens to Religion When It Is Biologized? [Excerpts] “Zoloft works better than God,” a Catholic priest once told me during a conversation about depression. This is not the kind of man to give up on faith; our talks always finish with his reminders to pray. But in matters of...Read more

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Muslims condemn censorship of hadiths seeking dead Jews

October 21, 2008

Muslims condemn censorship of hadiths seeking dead Jews [Excerpts] Muslim students on the campus of the University of Southern California have condemned a school decision to take down certain hadiths – or sayings of Muhammad – that called for dead Jews and had been posted on a student group's website...Read more

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Handbook on Sacrifices

October 20, 2008

New police handbook to address animal sacrifices Miami-Dade police officials plan to include in their 2009 handbook a note about how to respond to calls about ritual animal sacrifices. The decision comes a year after Coral Gables officers raided a home where practitioners of Santeria were slaughtering goats, chickens and...Read more

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Occult Invasion (revisit) Part Six-Is It Natural...Or Supernatural?

06/16/1999

Tom: Thanks, Gary. For the past few weeks we’ve been discussing Dave’s book Occult Invasion , which documents the rather troubling fact that both the world and the church are increasingly turning to occultism in a myriad of forms: shamanism, witchcraft, sorcery, spiritism, astrology, fortune-telling, magic, and so on and...Read more

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Israel's 'Evangelicals Go Home' Policy

RELIGION IN THE NEWS A report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media.This week’s item is from The Palm Beach Florida Post , dateline Jerusalem. “Representatives of 50 Christian Evangelical groups have agreed to make an unprecedented joint statement promising not to carry out missionary...Read more

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Should Christians Perform Magic?

In this regular feature, Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call, here’s this week’s question:Have you read Mind Games by André Cole, the Campus Crusade magician?I saw a review of it in Christian News that had your picture because Cole’s book contradicts what...Read more

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What Is The True Meaning of Christ's Death On The Cross?

In this segment called Understanding the Scriptures, we’ve been looking at the Doctrine of Salvation , the foundational doctrine to what we are all about as Christians.And I think it has been really informative, just listening to you, Dave, about some of these things, it’s just really blessed me, and...Read more

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U.S. Government Parenting

October 17, 2008

U.S. government: We know parenting better than you [Excerpts] The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for...Read more

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Persecution in Vietnam

October 16, 2008

Sacrifice at the Shrine of Trade [Excerpts] US military documents indicate that at any one time during the Vietnam War an estimated 40,000 Montagnards served with the American military and throughout the decade long war it is likely 100,000 Montagnards fought as allies with the United States. By the end...Read more

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