Author Advises Pastors, Others to Take Direct Approach to 'Messy' Problems
June 2, 2005
What do you do when a convicted pedophile gets saved in prison and upon release wants to join your church? What do you say to him, and how do you confront the issues involved? Clergy and laity may someday need to know how to respond to such questions -- and more. Full Story...Pro-Family Advocate: Selfish Homosexual Subculture Has Annexed Frisco
June 2, 2005
A pro-family leader says families have been driven out of San Francisco, California, because of the high cost of living and the increasingly family-unfriendly culture itself. According to an Associated Press report, San Francisco's 18-and-under population is just 14.5 percent -- the lowest percentage of children for any major city in the United Sta... Full Story...
Christian Parents Asked If 'Godless' Schools Are Best for Their Children
June 1, 2005
A Texas pastor and a Tennessee minister of education are warning their fellow Southern Baptists about what they consider the "toxic spiritual nature" of public schools in America. The two men hope their proposed resolution to the denomination's Resolutions Committee will cause Christian parents to seriously consider if government-run schools are th... Full Story...
Grad Student Alleges School Is Penalizing Him for His Conservative Views
June 1, 2005
A social work student at Rhode Island College (RIC) says his refusal to back a liberal political agenda may prevent him from earning his master's degree. Full Story...
Kids' Access to Explicit Library Books Restricted After Ark. Parent Complains
June 1, 2005
A Christian mom in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has succeeded in getting the city's school board to remove three books endorsing offensive sexual practices and pornography from the district's elementary and middle school libraries. Full Story...
Buchanan: Communism Still Attacks Western Values Through the Left
June 1, 2005
Political analyst and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan says the United States is presently in a losing battle in the culture war. Among the nation's enemies, he contends, are philosophies that have been at war with Christianity throughout history. Full Story...
Christian Attorney Hails SCOTUS Decision Upholding Prisoners' Religious Freedom
June 1, 2005
A senior trial attorney with the American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy is among a number of religious freedom defenders applauding a Tuesday U.S. Supreme Court decision. In that unanimous ruling, the court upheld the constitutionality of a federal law requiring prisons to accommodate inmates' religious beliefs. Full Story...
Georgia Coast Suspense Thriller Competes for Christy Award
June 1, 2005
A peculiar doctor, a suspicious psychic, a missing wife and an unfaithful husband muddy the waters in Terri Blackstock's suspense thriller River's Edge. It's hard to talk about this one without putting it in the context of its four-book series, so how about four for the price of one? Full Story...
Adoption Lands Actress Sought-After Role as Mother
June 1, 2005
As an adopted child herself, actress and former model Chelsea Noble has a passion for adoption and a love for motherhood. "I love being a mother," Chelsea told the AFA Journal over tea at Padri's Italian Cuisine in Agoura Hills, California. "It's the most fulfilling thing." Full Story...
Mediation Necessary Over Room Set Aside for Meditation
May 31, 2005
A meditation room at the University of Michigan-Flint has become the center of a religious dispute between Muslim and non-Muslim students. Full Story...
Missionary: Western Europe's Darkness Foreshadows America's Spiritual Decline
May 31, 2005
A Southern Baptist missionary stationed in Madrid, Spain, contends that Western Europe is currently the hardest mission field on Earth. Chad, a 32-year-old Christian worker abroad, says the hostility to Christianity has become so severe in Europe that he does not want his last name published. Full Story...
Eritrean Govt. Continues Crackdown on Persecuted Christians
May 31, 2005
The president of Open Doors USA is encouraging believers in America not to forget Christians in the Eastern African country of Eritrea, who are persecuted for their faith. Sixteen full-time pastors and nearly 900 Eritrean Christians are known to be held in prisons, military confinement camps, and other crowded detention areas after being arrested f... Full Story...
Religion News
