Robert Nicholson What did you do on Saturday, July 19th? Catch a movie? Visit the beach? Host a barbecue? Whatever you did, half a world away beneath that same summer sun thousands of Iraqi Christians were being purged from the city of Mosul and told never to return on pain of death. Carrying only the clothes on their backs, they fled from homes in which they and their families had dwelt since the times of the apostles. http://www.canonandculture.com/seven-lame-excuses-why-christians-in-the-west-neglect-our-brothers-in-the-east/ Read more

Ryan Anderson As I recounted Monday at The Daily Signal, The New York Times reporter Josh Barro thinks some people are “unworthy of respect.” Yesterday Barro doubled-down and tweeted back at me that “some people are deserving of incivility.” He argued that I am such a person because of my views about marriage policy. You can see the entire exchange below and on my twitter page. http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/31/new-york-times-reporter-people-deserving-incivility/ Read more

Michael Novak What has been largely neglected during these many generations is a third and more important question: What is the moral ecology under which the dignity and solidarity of all the peoples of the world can best thrive? http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/07/13476/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=5b06cbfd41-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-5b06cbfd41-84107317 Read more

Shalom Gerald! Thank you for standing steadfastly with us. Here is our last update: Today is the 24th day of Gaza conflict and Israel has called up 16,000 more reservists to broaden the operation. It seems that we are being pulled into a larger conflict as Hizbollah is threatening to open another front from the north. Israeli ambassador to Sweden claimed that it is not just Israel fighting the terror from Gaza, it is the world jihadists’ war against the... Read more

[This is from a friend who lives in Jerusalem, and has a daughter serving in the IDF.] Shalom Gerry! Thank you so much for your support! Here are some updates of the events here: It is the end if 18th day of Gaza conflict and it seems that the end is not yet close… We try to continue with our everyday life, which is not easy. Our hearts and thoughts are continuously with our soldiers in Gaza and with the... Read more

Why preachers should practice what they preach even more than what they believe. http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/07/21/the-double-standard-of-religious-leadership/33176 Read more

What the end of Christianity in Mosul means for Christians everywhere. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/07/a-line-crossed-in-the-middle-east?utm_source=First+Things+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6bda0a1858-7_22_20147_22_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28bf775c26-6bda0a1858-172554629 Read more

This is part of a week-long dialogue between Robert George and a gay marriage advocate. Today George summarizes his argument against gay marriage, and includes a section on the oft-quoted myth that gay marriage won’t affect the marriages of the rest of us. According to writer and same-sex marriage supporter Masha Gessen, Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there—because we lie that the institution of marriage is... Read more

Praying with Kavvanah (concentration) is very difficult. Lest we think this is a modern problem reserved for the common person, think again http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2014/07/the-challenge-of-prayer/?utm_source=Mosaic+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3304e40c1c-2014_7_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-3304e40c1c-41159925 Read more

It is unlikely that the Church of England’s decision will profoundly change the current dynamics of the church there, at least for the moment. Many of those most opposed have left the church already or are already so estranged from it that they have lost any compelling voice within the church’s councils. Women bishops are likely, however, to hasten some of the already growing splits within the more Evangelical and Reformed wings of the church. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/07/what-women-bishops-mean-for-christian-unity?utm_source=First+Things+Subscribers&utm_campaign=29fb304795-7_18_147_18_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28bf775c26-29fb304795-172554629 Read more