Take a look at this list of the top 50 countries that persecute Christians: World Watch List Countries | World Watch List. By my count, 37 of them are Islamic. 8 are Communist or recently-Communist that have kept their persecuting habits. 3 are Buddhist. 1
Harold Camping has repented of his dating of doomsday, but Christian types are not the only ones who fall for end times predictions. The Mayan calendar runs out on December 21, 2012. So quite a few people think that will be the end of time.
In today’s final arguments over Obamacare, the Supreme Court considered whether striking down the individual mandate should mean throwing out the whole health care law. It sounded like getting rid of the requirement that people buy insurance were a foregone conclusion. And a majority seemed
Peter Leithhart, a Reformed pastor and theologian, says that what evangelicals need if they are going to respond effectively to our time is to recover Holy Communion: Evangelicals will be incapable of responding to the specific challenges of our time with any steadiness or effect
National Review has uncovered a second abortion mandate in Obamacare: Finalized on March 12, 2012 (and set to go into effect with the 2014 exchanges), the new HHS rule implements Section 1303 of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” The new rule imposes mandates
On the second day of oral arguments on Obamacare at the Supreme Court, the majority of the justices were shooting holes in the administration’s arguments. Justice Kennedy, usually a key swing voter, expressed skepticism that the government has the constitutional power to force citizens to
One of the things we enjoy about professional football, frankly, is its violence. And as players get bigger and faster and meaner, we like it more and more. Still, we have ideals of sportsmanship. When a player gets hurt, both sides respectfully applaud as he
Last Sunday was not only the 5th Sunday of Lent; it fell on March 25. That’s nine months before Christmas. Thus it’s Annunciation Day. So just as Lent ramps up into the greater intensity of “Passiontide,” just before Holy Week, we reflect on what we
When a politician makes a mistake, sometimes it gets turned into a disqualification. Sometimes it gets ignored. Chris Cillizza explains which ones stick and which ones don’t: Gaffes that matter are those that speak to a larger narrative about a candidate or a doubt/worry that
Mike Daisey has been performing a one-man-show entitled “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” in which he exposes the unsafe working condition in Apple factories in China. NPR picked up the story and interviewed Daisey on “This American Life” about what he found
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