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by Marsha Jordan
Yesterday was one of those days. I was so pooped that I struggled to sit upright at the dining room table. It took extreme effort to hold my head up out of the soup bowl. Days like that are common for me because I have a connective tissue disease tha... read more
• August 24, 2006 |
 | » 'Red-Letter Christians' and Their Dangerous Omissions
by Matt Friedeman
Note to self: Here lies a lesson on how really bad ideas get started. Tony Campolo, eager to promote the Evangelical Left's newest movement -- "Red-Letter Christianity" -- writes that the label comes from ... "A secular Jewish Country-... read more
• August 22, 2006 |
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| » Life In The Manure Pile
by Marsha Jordan
The husband once aspired to be a self-sufficient, back-to-the-land pioneer. He bought a windmill, oil lamps, beehives, and a couple of pigs, which we named Lois Lane and Clark Kent. This dirty duo caused me headaches from the day we took them home. W... read more
• August 18, 2006 |
 | » The Man Who Would Be King
by Paul Proctor
He was born in an out-of-the-way place, the son of a poor mother and father whom the world would one day call blessed. He arrived challenging the establishment and literally shook the world with things that eyes and ears had never before witnessed. H... read more
• August 16, 2006 |
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| » A Youth Exodus From Church
by Matt Friedeman
AgapePress has reported that Dr. Frank Page, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is disturbed that many students are leaving the church once they graduate. Indeed, the Convention's Council on Family Life reports that some 88 percent... read more
• August 16, 2006 |
 | » Busted!
by Ramesh Ponnuru
Mel Gibson says that he is not an anti-Semite. Even the friendliest observer of his actions must, however, conclude that he has anti-Semitic impulses (among other troubles). His denial of anti-Semitism can be taken in two ways. It might be that his c... read more
• August 11, 2006 |
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| » Hurting or Helping?
by Marsha Jordan
Over and over, Cobi screamed, "No! No!" as the nurse and I held him down. He sobbed in pain and begged for my help, but all I could do was push him down onto the table with all my might as he kicked at me. The look of fear on his face burne... read more
• August 9, 2006 |
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| » Where Is The Passion Of Compassion?
by Jonathan Flora
There is this scene in a movie you may have heard of. In it, a man stoops down and places his finger in the dirt to write. As he does, the dust from the ground explodes with the power of the words being drawn. We then see several defeated men toss th... read more
• August 2, 2006 |
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| » Mel Gibson's Problem Is Not Alcohol
by Paul Proctor
I'm sure you've seen the headlines and the mug shot of Mel Gibson being booked for DUI. It is one of those human-interest stories that generate an enormous amount of media attention and website traffic, not so much because it involves alcohol abuse b... read more
• August 2, 2006 |
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| » Making God Laugh
by Marsha Jordan
One snowy morning, I left church with a simple "to do" list. It included "Go to church, go home, and relax with the family." Nowhere on the list was "fishtail around an icy curve, become airborne, flip my van, barely miss a t... read more
• July 31, 2006 |
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| » Why Your Local Church Didn't Make 'The List'
by Matt Friedeman
I am just as jealous as I can be ... in a holy sort of way, of course. My church of 200 attenders didn't make the recent list of the 50 most influential churches. Dr. John Vaughan of Church Growth Today asked 2,000 of the largest non-Catholic congreg... read more
• July 25, 2006 |
 | » The Language of God
by Dr. Benjamin Wiker
So often-in fact, with tireless repetition-we are told that the really top-name scientists are not Christians. That intellectual rigor and religious belief cannot coexist in the same person. We suspect that what is really the case, is that there are ... read more
• July 13, 2006 |
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