Trinity Western Grad ‘Attacked’ For Being Christian In Job Rejection
Bethany Paquette had applied to work in Canada's North for Amaruk Wilderness Corp.
“The main thing that she’s been asking for is to order this company to stop discriminating.” Trotter is asking the tribunal to send “a really strong message” that “it is not acceptable to discriminate based on what somebody believes or where they went to school. That it is not ‘open season’ on Christians in Canada.” A... Continue Reading
Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks
When it comes to Ebola, the rubber met the road at the Firestone rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia
Dr. Flannery of the CDC says a key reason for Firestone’s success is the close monitoring of people who have potentially been exposed to the virus — and the moving of anyone who has had contact with an Ebola patient into voluntary quarantine. The classic slogan for Firestone tires was “where the rubber meets... Continue Reading
Clash of the Progressive Pieties
A lesbian couple complains that its baby is the “wrong” race. This should be good.
A model of parenthood dominated by the mandate to satisfy the parents’ needs rather than those of the children will be forever defective. But it is, increasingly, the model we have. It’s a perverse consequence of the times in which we live: Cultural and economic pressures see to it that many young women spend their... Continue Reading
Supreme Court Allows Gay Marriage To Expand To 30 States
The Supreme Court refused to get involved in the national debate over same-sex marriage, leaving intact lower court rulings that will legalize the practice in 11 additional states
The action will bring to 30 the number of states where gays and lesbians can marry. Appeals courts in Cincinnati and San Francisco are considering cases that could expand that number further, presuming the Supreme Court remains outside the legal fray. WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court refused to get involved in the national debate over... Continue Reading
How the War on Poverty Was Lost
Fifteen percent of Americans still live in poverty, according to the official census poverty report for 2012, unchanged since the mid-1960s.
Do higher living standards for the poor mean that the war on poverty has succeeded? No. To judge the effort, consider LBJ’s original aim. He sought to give poor Americans “opportunity not doles,” planning to shrink welfare dependence not expand it. In his vision, the war on poverty would strengthen poor Americans’ capacity to support... Continue Reading
Christian College’s Accreditation Threatened Over Adherence To Christian Moral Values
If you are a Christian, then you take Bible as an authority in sexual matters. That means no sex before marriage. And no sex outside marriage. Period.
Part and parcel of the rejection of God as an authority figure is the desire to get the approval of everyone else around you for acting immorally and selfishly. When people reject God, they feel guilty, and it causes them to want to surround themselves with people who tell them that they are actually doing... Continue Reading
Incest a ‘Fundamental Right’, German Committee Says
Anti-incest laws in Germany could be scrapped after a government-backed group said relationships between brothers and sisters should be legal
“The abolition of the offense of incest between siblings would be the wrong signal,” said Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, legal policy spokeswoman for the party’s group in parliament. “Eliminating the threat of punishment against incestuous acts within families would run counter to the protection of undisturbed development for children.” Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters... Continue Reading
California School Bans All Christian Books
Staff at the library were told to remove all books with a Christian message, authored by Christians or published by a Christian company.
The schools Superintendent Kathleen Hermsmeyer, responded to the PJI in a letter writing: “We do not purchase sectarian educational materials and do not allow sectarian materials on our state-authorized lending shelves”. Corrie ten Boom’s ‘The Hiding Place’, a true story of courage and compassion by Christians in Nazi Germany, is one of many titles deemed... Continue Reading
Boko Haram Used Schoolgirl as Suicide Bomber
Congressional hearing discusses kidnapped girls’ fate, other international religious freedom concerns
Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls after raiding their school in April. A month later, it claimed all the girls had converted to Islam. Many speculated the terrorist group turned the girls into bombers after a string of suicide bombings by young women in northern Nigeria. (WNS)–Terrorist group Boko Haram used at least one... Continue Reading
Stop the Smug Media Sermons on Corporal Punishment
What armchair observers of the Adrian Peterson episode get wrong
In a 2010 study, “Are Spanking Injunctions Scientifically Supported?” Larzelere and developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind observed that researchers regularly fail to differentiate between abusive and non-abusive corporal punishment, to distinguish whether corporal punishment was used in an appropriate disciplinary situation, and to show that the link between corporal punishment and negative outcomes was causal, not... Continue Reading
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