"Luca was Gay" recounts the liberation of a psychologically injured man from the homosexual lifestyle. "Luca", who is believed to be based on the Italian Luca di Tolvi, develops homosexual attractions after his father leaves and his mother treats him as a substitute, creating confusion about his sexual identity.
Read moreThe hope is that Christian broadcasters might actually enjoy a competitive edge during tight times that comes from serving a clientele with holy zeal for the cause.
"You don't find businesses making sacrifices to make sure advertising dollars are paid to broadcasters. That's not part of their paradigm," said Craig Parshall, senior vice president of the National Religious Broadcasters, a 1,400-member organization that held its annual convention Feb. 7-10 in Nashville.
Read morePart memoir, part history and part Qur'anic exegesis, the author provides an unsettling catalogue of Sharia-based practices: the subjugation and brutalization of women, the persecution of homosexuals, honour killings, the beheading of apostates and the stoning of adulterers.
Read moreCanon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream was quick to see how this reversed a basic value of the Reformation inheritance, saying that the move appeared "to be a reversion to medieval times, when the Bible could be read only by priests in Latin and was not to be defiled by ordinary people reading it".
Read moreBut our wounds are not fatal. I'm very hopeful. My hope is not based upon some vague wish. It's rooted in the Word of God. It's rooted in the belief that even when life is tough, God is good and he has a plan and purpose for our lives and for our country.
So what will it take to heal our land?
Read morePlanned Parenthood applauded President Obama's recent revocation of the "Mexico City Policy," the result of which will send our tax dollars to fund abortions overseas. This has been our new president's most unpopular decision. It's also puzzling, because Obama himself has said he wants fewer abortions.
Read moreHe said her case, and that of Caroline Petrie, the nurse suspended for offering to pray for an elderly patient, represented a “seeming intolerance and illiberality about faith in God which is being reflected in the higher echelons of our public services”.
As The Daily Telegraph disclosed yesterday, the 38-year-old had been shocked when her five-year-old daughter Jasmine was reprimanded for talking about God and Heaven to a friend in her class.
Read morePolitical correctness in academic publishing is nothing new, but it would be unusual, to say the least, for ideological pressure to lead a publisher to reverse itself so late in the process, especially given the significant financial losses involved in pulping a print run of a gigantic four-volume encyclopedia. As Kurian puts it, "This is probably the first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century."
Read moreLater, their disillusionment with the born-again President led to the Reagan surge, the Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition during the heyday of political activism. The Religious Right became a pejorative term, but it achieved needed political victories.
Read moreThe policy first was implemented by President Reagan, but overturned by President Clinton and then reinstated in 2001 by President Bush. Gallup asked adults if they approved Obama "allowing U.S. funding for overseas family planning organizations that provide abortions." The Mexico City reversal, according to the poll, was the least popular decision among seven Obama presidential decisions referenced in the poll.
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