Calif. Parents Upset Over Decision Allowing School Contraceptive Distribution
June 7, 2005
Concerned parents are criticizing a northern California school board's decision to allow contraceptives to be prescribed and handed out to students at a local high school. The move by the Santa Rosa City School Board permits the dispensing of condoms and birth control pills at a health clinic on the campus of Elsie Allen High School. Full Story...Ministry Founder: U.S. Churches Missing Out with Just Short-Term Mission Efforts
June 7, 2005
The founder of Gospel for Asia says most churches in the United States don't have a proper understanding of missions. For many, he says, mission work is thought of as a necessary evil. Full Story...
Porn Pulled from Family Resort
June 7, 2005
Adult programming will no longer be available via television at any of the five Great Wolf indoor water park family resorts located in the U.S. Full Story...
Abortion Linked to Premature Births
June 7, 2005
A new study from France recently published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology confirmed a link between abortion and future premature births. Full Story...
Michigan Pro-Life Measure Would Offer Women an Informed 'Choice'
June 7, 2005
A pro-life lawmaker in Michigan says anyone who says they are "pro-choice" ought to have no problem with his bill that would require abortion providers to give women the opportunity to view ultrasound images of their babies. Full Story...
Evangelist Doubts Muslim Group's Koran Giveaway Will Have Much Impact
June 6, 2005
A Christian evangelist and former Muslim says she is not concerned about the news that a radical Islamic group is offering free Korans to anyone who wants one. USA Today recently reported that the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, plans to distribute as many as 25,000 Korans this week. Full Story...
Scouts' Honor Tarnished; Audit Reveals BSA Officials' Falsified Data
June 6, 2005
After discovering exaggerated membership statistics in a Boy Scouts of America outreach program, the National Council of the BSA says it has taken steps to prevent local scouting organizations from inflating their membership rolls. Full Story...
Author Pegs Gender-Corrected 'Bible' as Heretical Nonsense
June 6, 2005
A Washington, DC-based publisher calling itself the LBI Institute is marketing an edition of the Bible that portrays God as female and Jesus Christ as a woman. But while the publisher tout its feminine rendition of the gospels as "empowering" and "illuminating," critics have another word for it -- blasphemous. Full Story...
Buchanan Convinced Today's Political Left Rooted in Past's Counterculture
June 6, 2005
An author and political commentator says the cultural philosophy of the political left comes from anti-Christian philosophies that were embraced by the counterculture in the U.S. some 40 or 50 years ago. Full Story...
Prohibition of Bible Reading at Recess Results in Lawsuit
June 6, 2005
A Tennessee elementary school is being sued for barring a ten-year-old boy from reading his Bible during recess. Full Story...
Will Traditional Media Survive?
June 6, 2005
It was only a generation ago that Walter Cronkite ended his CBS news broadcasts by telling American viewers, "And that's the way it is." Full Story...
Debut Novel Puts Writer in Christy Company
June 6, 2005
Having grown up on an Alabama farm decades ago, I'm a sucker for nostalgia. So Charles Martin had me hooked from the first sentence of The Dead Don't Dance: "Last October, after the soybeans had peaked at four feet, the corn had spiraled to almost twice that, and the wisteria had shed its purple, a November breeze picked up, pushed out the summer h... Full Story...
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