Conference Takes Abstinence Message to the Heart of Hollywood
August 8, 2005
Abstinence Clearinghouse president Leslee Unruh says she is really excited by the outpouring of support for the Ninth International Abstinence Leadership Conference that took place this past weekend. The theme, taken from the conference locale this year, was "Abstinence Takes on Hollywood." Full Story...Columnist Sees Inconsistency in Punishment of Male and Female Sex Offenders
August 8, 2005
Lack of public outrage over the latest string of sex-abuse cases involving female teachers and young male students leads one columnist to believe female offenders are treated much more leniently than their male counterparts. Full Story...
Conservatives Wonder About Roberts' Role in Romer Ruling
August 8, 2005
Pro-family reaction is mixed to last week's revelation in the Los Angeles Times that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts took part in helping homosexual activists win a major case before the high court in 1996. Full Story...
Book Offers Author's 'Who's Who' of Nation's Most Poisonous Pundits
August 8, 2005
Former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg says one of the biggest problems in America is that people are too tolerant. In his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37), he identifies several people he believes bear a sizeable portion of the blame for the society's moral decline. Full Story...
South Carolina Church's India Mission Trip Yields Mutual Blessings
August 8, 2005
A group from one South Carolina church has used part of its summer to travel to southeastern Asia and help victims of December 2004's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rebuild their lives. Last month, a group of 21 people from Low Country Community Church near Hilton Head spent several weeks on the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, an area hit hard by the de... Full Story...
A Game of Recovery
August 8, 2005
In the movie Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius, there's a scene in which the U. S. Open champion Walter Hagan plays against the younger Bobby Jones. Although he has an erratic swing and seems error prone, Hagan runs away with the match. Afterwards, he confides in Jones: "I don't always hit the ball straight, but you know what I've learned? Three bad sh... Full Story...
Court Rules School Board Members May Open Meetings With Prayer
August 8, 2005
A judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging prayers at school board meetings in Delaware. The lawsuit was filed against members of the Indian River School District Board of Education, a group that regularly opens its business meetings with prayer. Full Story...
Bush Praised for Defending Free Speech on Theory of Life's Origin
August 5, 2005
President Bush is being praised for stating that public school students should be exposed to different schools of thought on the subject of the origins of life. Full Story...
Penn. Pastor Officiates Over Same-Sex 'Union' -- What Will PC(USA) Do?
August 5, 2005
A female minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) is in hot water over her role in a supposed "marriage" ceremony involving two lesbians. It's a test case that will likely determine whether ministers in that denomination will be disciplined for officiating at same-sex "wedding" ceremonies. Full Story...
Christian Activist Challenges Credibility of SD Pro-Homosexual Group
August 5, 2005
A San Diego "gay pride" organization is facing some public and potentially legal backlash after a convicted pedophile was discovered working at their recent festival. Full Story...
Innocence, Corruption, and the Screening of Childhood
August 5, 2005
In his book, The Disappearance of Childhood, cultural critic Neil Postman notes that since the 1950s the line separating children and adults has blurred, often to the point of being indiscernible. Children are now depicted not as kids, but as mini-adults. Postman places much of the blame on mass media, primarily television, for providing cross-gene... Full Story...
GFA Founder Urges Christian Support of Missionaries to Unreached World
August 5, 2005
The founder of Gospel for Asia is encouraging Christians in America to put more emphasis on helping native missionaries in unreached parts of the world who are working to share the gospel with those in their countries. Full Story...
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