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In his commentary “More Drooling Idiocy on Rick Perry’s Faith,” it’s not too difficult to figure out where political observer Leon H. Wolf stands. “A fairly good indicator that Rick Perry will make a strong general election candidate is the desperation you can smell in the left’s opening salvo of attacks against him,” proclaims Wolf.…

“Our Christ sacrificed His life on the cross for our sins. … Our Christ is alive,” those are the words that Asia Bibi, a wife and mother, used to defend her faith against mocking co-workers who tried to make her convert to Islam. She was later convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. She now…

One of the many victims of an addiction to pornography is “hope.” A person addicted to porn may believe there is none. The marriage partner likewise may feel a painful mixture of anger, betrayal and hopelessness. There is in fact great hope, according to marriage and family therapist Geoff Steurer. The good news is that…

India’s film superstar Akshay Kumar is less than sympathetic to England’s young rioters. The Bollywood movie star was in London shooting the “Bollywood” movie Housefull 2 and was shocked by the violence in the streets. “It is so shocking that London and England is now being destroyed by its very own misled youths. The circumstance for which these…

Billionaire Warren Buffett is urging U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on America’s super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments. In a guest opinion piece in the New York Times, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” the 80-year-old accused Congress of being “billionaire friendly.” “Our leaders have asked for ‘shared…

British Prime Minister David Cameron says a national “moral collapse” led to the widespread looting and violence across English cities last week. Meanwhile charity workers  blamed “fatherlessness” and the breakdown of the British family. In a speech at Oxford Monday, Cameron pledged to “review every aspect of our work to mend our broken society, on schools, welfare, families,…

Country music stars used Twitter to ask fans to pray for dozens injured Saturday night when the band Sugarland’s stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.   Sugarland tweeted to fans late Saturday night: “We are all right. We are praying for our fans and the people of Indianapolis. We hope you’ll join us. They need your…

On Sunday, Washington State bureaucrats forbade a local church from holding a baptism in a public lake near the state capitol. Saying that she interprets the state constitution to bar religious use of any state property, the acting director of the state Dapartment of General Administration, Jane Rushford, declined to issue Olympia’s Reality Church a permit to use…

A Buffalo, N.Y., church is focusing on a non-traditional calling: business education. However, Pastor Stephen Andzel at New Creation Fellowship says he sees no reason instruction should be limited to spiritual topics. Churches, he says, are called to teach everything, from science to literature. “And even business,” writes Maryellen Tighe for the Buffalo News newspaper.…

“The peace of a bucolic East Anglian village has been shattered by a fierce campaign by residents to oust their female vicar,” reports Jonathan Wynne-Jones, a religious affairs correspondent for the Telegraph, a British daily newspaper. To the outside world, the part-time assignment of Rev. Lorna Smith as Anglican priest at the 12th century St. Nicholas Church in Trillingham, would…
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