Society
Mainline Protestant denominations continue their free-fall, as highlighted in a US News & World Report piece that explores their adventures in advertising.
“The under-35 generation thinks church is a judgmental, hypocritical, insular place,” says Jamie Dunham, chief planning officer for Bohan Advertising & Marketing, the firm that designed the United Methodist campaign.
The idea of trying to [...]
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Narcotics officers in Bridgeport have made a gruesome discovery which highlights the link between crime and the occult. Traffickers in Mexico and other places are said to commonly perform grotesque rituals to obtain supernatural protection for their business but we don’t expect to see such things in these parts.
Members of the Tactical Narcotics Team expected [...]
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Chuck Colson talks about the latest trend among the apostate, or wanna-be apostates out there: getting a certificate of “de-baptism.”
There’s a bizarre trend going on in Great Britain. Former church members are getting “de-baptized.” As Time magazine reports, “More than 100,000 former Christians have downloaded ‘certificates of de-baptism’ in a bid to publicly renounce the [...]
In today’s Courant, Dave Altimari has a good background piece explaining the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport’s lawsuit against the State of Connecticut.
In March, more than 4,000 Catholics descended on the Capitol to protest Bill 1098, which proposed having lay councils of seven to 13 people oversee the finances of local parishes, relegating Catholic pastors and [...]
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The alarmingly clear-thinking Mark Steyn wants us to wake up, and fast, skewering us for becoming Europeans:
Every Democrat running for election tells you they want to do this or that “for the children.” If America really wanted to do something “for the children,” it could try not to make the same mistake as most of [...]
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An important article in today’s Wall Street Journal about the severe problems plaguing Mexico – problems which some observers say have the potential to cause the Mexican state to fail. Americans remain largely clueless about the endemic violence there. Please pray for Mexico urgently.
I actually couldn’t help laughing when I read about this – and I’m a pastor! In the fight to defend traditional values this story pretty much tells you how we got to where we are today.
After unknown persons, probably upset about California banning homosexual marriage, spray-painted swastikas on a San Francisco Catholic Church, the pastor [...]
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The Church’s failure to compete in the spheres of vocabulary and language has brought our society to the place where it is about to get hit by a train. It’s time for Christians to ask for, even insist upon, several things. The Church needs to: (1) reclaim the true biblical concept of tolerance; (2) reclaim [...]
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The Courant profiles faith-based programs for the homeless and others:
“I tried all of the bad stuff, the alcohol, the drugs,” says Herman Carrington, on parole after serving eight years in prison for first-degree sexual assault. “I got tired of all the bad things. I never found Jesus. He found me here.”
Like the other residents here, [...]
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More alarming news from the world of science: apparently pollution is causing men to, well, go extinct. Or to become girls at any rate. No, it’s not April Fools’ Day.
The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.
The research – to be [...]
