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Should America welcome Islamic law? Voters in Oklahoma banned it last year. Other states have considered it. Diversity proponents say we should not fear — that we should embrace what other cultures bring to us. Across Britain, Muslims now can apply to weekly Islamic “sharia” courts for rulings on family and financial issues. “While these courts may be…

Little did Ron Simonek of Big Bear, California, know when he made his first climb 20 years ago that rock climbing would lead him into a relationship with Jesus Christ and into a ministry of hope for youth and families, writes Carol Thomas Karaszewski in the Christian Examiner. After his climbing mentor led him to Christ…

“China tolerates Christian church services,” writes former Time magazine correspondent David Aikman, “but only within the narrow boundaries of theology and church life dictated by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, which oversees two church umbrella groups, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and, for Protestants, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM).” Aikman, who spent decades covering China — and…

 “Here’s a news story I’m betting you haven’t seen,” writes Beliefnet’s Dr. Britton Guildersleeve, a poetry professor at Oklahoma State University whose column “Beginner’s Heart” is a regular Beliefnet feature. Basically two Norweigan campers heard gunfire at the summer camp and ended up making repeated trips in their little boat to haul kids out of the…
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