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Patel sentenced to prison in forced-abortion case
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6 years ago
APPLETON (WLUK) -- A man who was on the run for a decade has been sentenced for spiking his girlfriend's drink to try to cause a miscarriage of the couple's child. Manishkumar Patel, 45, was...
Priest Who Wants Gays Killed: I’m Hiding After Death Threats by LGBTQ+ Activists
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6 years ago
You may remember the priest who burned a rainbow flag after saying gay people should be put to death, and that he was then removed as head of his church . Now, he says he’s been driven...
National Council Of Churches Calls For Brett Kavanaugh’s Withdrawal
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6 years ago
The National Council of Churches called for the withdrawal of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination on Wednesday, citing his behavior during last week’s Senate hearing and his “political...
The Unexamined Faith Is Not Worth Having
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6 years ago
He lived over two millennia ago , and as far as we know he never wrote anything. We learn everything we know about him from others, often in reports and descriptions written decades after his...
Wake Up Christians — Silence Is Not an Option
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6 years ago
Excerpted from the book, One Nation "Above" God. "The men of Issachar had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do" (1 Chronicles 12:32) We don't have to compromise our...
Prayer Is Not Inaction
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6 years ago
( I deliberately left out some of this article, because it refers to a news story almost a year old (the article itself is that old) and I thought that might distract from a discussion of what is...
Why Can't I Criticize My Religion?
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Why Can't I Criticize My Religion? by Majid Rafizadeh , Gatestone Institute, September 16, 2018 Majid Rafizadeh speaking at the United States Congress, on December 7, 2017. (Image...
Dalai Lama: I knew of sex abuse by Buddhist teachers since 1990s
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6 years ago
The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he has known about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since the 1990s and that such allegations are "nothing new". The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered by...
Smart people saying smart things September 13th, 2018
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6 years ago
Kristin Du Mez, “Hobby Lobby Evangelicalism” By this point it had become clear to me that Hobby Lobby wasn’t just a Christian company because its owners were Christians, because they...
The Gospel is Social Justice
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6 years ago
There is no other gospel, but a social justice gospel. Any other type would be truncated, partial, a mere sliver or shadow of what the good news encompasses. The gospel, the good news, is a...
Top 10 Christian Terrorists
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6 years ago
I recently participated in a debate over the topic: “Is Islam A Religion of Peace?“, but I think we should be asking: “Is Christianity A Religion of Peace?” Why? Because not only does the...
Sin is not just a “heart issue”
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6 years ago
If you’re a person who has frequented the internet over the last month, you’ve probably heard, seen, or read discussions around whether or not companies or governments should “ban” single-use...
What If Christianity Looked More Like Jesus and Less Like Paul (Or Moses)?
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6 years ago
My friend asked a question today : “Do you think there’s a new form of Christianity quietly forming?” To which I responded “Yep.” Here’s why that’s a good thing… What I see happening is more...
Catholic Church Covered Up Child Sex Abuse in Pennsylvania for Decades, Grand Jury Says
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6 years ago
Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests over a period of 70 years, persuading victims not to report the...
Obituary: Heather Heyer died on August 12th
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6 years ago
The legal assistant, killed at the far-right rally in Charlottesville, was 32 TO HER friends , it seemed as if Heather Heyer was always sounding off about something. Why was the world so...
5 Reasons Why Jesus People Ought Oppose The Death Penalty
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6 years ago
I believe that America’s justice system is broken and in need of desperate repair. One of those areas is the practice of putting our citizens to death, something I believe that all Jesus...
Jesus, the Death Penalty, & the Adulterous Woman
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Someone over on pro-death penalty philosopher Dr. Ed Feser’s blog stated: “Christ might have said: ‘while it is morally licit in principle to use the death penalty, I tell you that you must...
To my best belief: just what is the pragmatic theory of truth?
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6 years ago
What is it for something to be true? Charles Sanders Peirce c1880. Photo by Getty Images One might think that the answer is obvious. A true belief gets reality right: our words...