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We know well what it means for people to be dissatisfied with Christianity, or to blurt out “I’m finished!” and publicly walk away. I’ve even heard people proclaim that the term “Christian” has been so torn apart in the battle-to-the-death between liberals and conservatives that there’s no longer any point in using the term at [...]
BEIJING – If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China’s Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can’t have sex with him. And he’ll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank. In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are being trained with a sex education curriculum created by [...]
WAKE FOREST - Churches across the nation are using GriefShare to help people who are grieving a death. Those offering this weekly, lay-driven ministry are surprised by the impact GriefShare is having on their churches. Rev. Jim Bates of Quarryville, PA, has observed church members becoming more proactive in wanting to help families outside the [...]
DENVER – 9:53 am – The Denver Post reports Christian Partner for Life, an online guide to Christian dating sites, has named rookie Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow as its most eligible Christian bachelor of the year. It would be hard not to notice Tebow, given all the media attention on him, wrote Christian Partner [...]
PAKISTAN – 7:41 am – Gospel for Asia’s Compassion Services relief teams are battling ongoing flooding in Pakistan as they help victims of what has been called the worst disaster to hit Asia in decades. Massive flooding of the Indus River system has impacted the lives of some 20 million people and left more than [...]
EL CAJON – 12:58 pm – Tim Cain came to dread the nights. Sleeping on the concrete, or at least trying to sleep, it hurt — hurt his back, his rear, his arms. Daytime wasn’t much better. He hiked around El Cajon, hauling a backpack, often in the searing heat. This is what you do [...]
RALEIGH – 11:00 pm – A prestigious North Carolina private college cannot have police officers with the power to arrest suspects and enforce state law because the school is a religious institution, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel agreed that the state Attorney General’s Office shouldn’t have commissioned Davidson College officers [...]
SAN ANDRES – 9:10 am – Survivors dub plane crash ‘El Milagro,’ The Miracle. Remarkably, all but one of the 125 passengers and six crew members survived the crash landing of a Boeing jet in San Andres, Colombia. WATCH IN HD
COLORADO SPRINGS – 9:54 am – Beyond the Brady Bunch by Ray and Debbie Alsdorf is not another series of how-to steps offered by people who are not in blended families, but it is a book written by a couple and family who have lived in the trenches and are willing to be vulnerable to [...]
THERIOT (AP) – 9:40 am – Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the “Blessing of the Boats.” On the menu? Heaping trays of barbecued chicken, smoked sausage and potato salad — but no crabs or shrimp. Blame the [...]