Underground movements in England and France are beginning to counter the global LGBT ideology that has entrenched itself in the governments of First-World nations. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/11101/?utm_source=RTA+Lopez+Part+Two&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

Despite what some of my respondents say, something fundamental is changing inside the evangelical movement, and it bodes ill for Israel. By Robert W. Nicholson http://mosaicmagazine.com/supplemental/2013/10/fervent-friends-or-fickle-ones/ Read more

With apologies to Jonathan Edwards. Take heed, friend. “Their polls shall slide in due time.” http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/10/29/spinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-god/ Read more

While US conservatives are distracted by internal debates, the wealthy and powerful international movement for LGBT rights is aggressively targeting nations that are poorer and less powerful. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/11026/ Read more

Supporting crony capitalism weakens the appeal of social conservatism; it is difficult to hold the moral high ground on abortion and marriage while defending exploiters of the poor and oppressed. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/11028/?utm_source=RTA+Clinton+Orwellian+Warning&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

A host of evangelical and Roman Catholic groups in America are fighting against President Obama’s healthcare scheme which forces them to act against their beliefs. http://www.christian.org.uk/news/obamacare-abortions-resisted-by-faith-groups/?e251013 Read more

The upcoming 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht makes this an auspicious time to raise awareness about the contemporary violence targeting religious minorities and their places of worship. Of particular concern are attacks against Christian minorities that have occurred with alarming frequency from Syria to Egypt, from Iraq to Pakistan, and from Kenya to Sudan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/10/24/anti-christian-terror-is-everyones-concern/?wprss=rss_on-faith Read more

Not long ago, United Theological Seminary (UTS) in the Dayton, Ohio area was just another declining, has-been mainline seminary, facing ominous financial hardships, dominated by Scripture-demoting theological liberalism, and reflective of so much of what was wrong with its shrinking sponsoring denomination, the United Methodist Church. http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/10/21/the-united-miracle-a-mainline-seminary-turns-from-liberalism-to-orthodoxy/ Read more

According to a study recently released by the National Education Association, just 55 percent of Americans read at least one book not required for work or school in 2012. The study didn’t measure how many books those respondents read, but I’d hazard that the average number isn’t high. L’Engle’s distress and the NEA results raise a question for all who take their reading seriously: how much reading is enough? http://inearnestmag.com/in-earnest/2013/10/16/dont-waste-a-minute-or-a-page Read more

Radical, by Maajid Nawaz, brings the reader inside the individual human dynamics of one young man’s transition into extremist Islamism and his eventual departure from it. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/11079/?utm_source=RTA+Bryson+Radical+Review&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more