January 2011

Majority of Muslims Want Islam in Politics

January 19, 2011

Majority of Muslims want Islam in politics, poll says [Excerpts] A majority of Muslims around the world welcome a significant role for Islam in their countries' political life, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, but have mixed feelings toward militant religious groups such as Hamas and...Read more

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Meeting their true needs

January 18, 2011

I have no intention to depart in the smallest degree from the main principles on which I have acted in the past. My only hope for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the...Read more

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Why Doesn't the National Center for Science Education Have an Atheism Project?

January 17, 2011

Why Doesn't the National Center for Science Education Have an Atheism Project? [Excerpts] Jerry Coyne has an amusing post on the National Center for Science Education's outreach effort to Christians. Coyne, in a post titled "NSCE Becomes BioLogos," laments the rigorous efforts of the NCSE's Faith Project, which is a...Read more

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Firing For Being "Too Religious" Go to Court

January 17, 2011

Firings for being 'too religious' ordered to go to jury [Excerpts] A federal appeals court has ruled that a trial must be held on claims by a husband and wife team fired from their apartment management jobs by a supervisor who told them, "You're too religious." Such remarks, according to...Read more

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Scientists irate after top education official questions evolution

January 14, 2011

[TBC: The debate between Creation and Evolution is not confined to the United States, as this account from Israel demonstrates.] Scientists irate after top education official questions evolution [Excerpts] The Education Ministry's chief scientist sparked a furor among environmental activists and scholars Saturday with remarks questioning the reliability of evolution...Read more

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The Rise of the New Spontaneous Generationists

January 13, 2011

The Rise Of The New Spontaneous Generationists [Excerpts] Just three centuries ago spontaneous generation was embraced as a reality that seemed to agree well with scientific observations. It was thought that organisms could appear in their fully mature form without any initial development from young to adult. As one review...Read more

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Man Without Limbs, Live Without Limits

January 12, 2011

Man Without Limbs: I Need God for More than Arms, Legs [Excerpts] A man born without limbs said he needed God for more than arms and legs at the Harvest event in Seattle on Sunday. Nick Vujicic, a Christian motivational speaker, said he gave his life to Jesus Christ at...Read more

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Crossing the Red Sea

January 11, 2011

Our friend [Benjamin Wisner] Bacon [a late 19 th century “higher critic”], who in his attempt to get rid of the jaw-bone with which Samson slew a thousand Philistines, made him use the hill of Lehigh as his weapon, tries his hand on many of the miracles of the Old...Read more

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Not Ashamed to Stand With Israel

January 7, 2011

[ TBC: Geert Wilders has diligently sought to warn of the dangers of Islamic incursions in his native Holland. As a result he has been subjected to accusations of hate speech. On December 5, 2010 he gave a speech in Tel Aviv. Following are some of his observations.] I am...Read more

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Das Loch in Unserem Evangelium

January 6, 2011

Eine Rezension von The Hole in Our Gospel [ Das Loch in Unserem Evangelium ] Von Richard Stearns, Präsident von World Vision U.S. - rezensiert von Ron Merryman Richard Stearns schreibt, „[Gott] hat es satt, einen strahlenden äußeren Anstrich des Glaubens zu sehen, aber keine Tiefe der Hingabe. Das ist...Read more

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