Amidst the debate over Barack Obama’s controversial comments about salvation, I asked why progressive Christians don’t believe that John 3:16 means one can only be saved. Community member “Robert” responded: Even Billy Graham has said that he has come to believe that, while all who are saved are saved through Christ, not all of the…

Jill Stanek, the pro-life activist who pushed the “born alive” legislation in Illinois — and has been a leading foe of Barack Obama — suggests that some on her side have let perfectionism block sensible pro-life steps. All children slated for abortion are going to die. But if given the opportunity, do we not rescue…

Would you have the strength to do what she did?: Dr. Halima Bashir, now 29, was working at a clinic in a remote African village [in Darfur] when the government-backed Janjaweed – Arabic for “devil on horseback”- surrounded a girl’s school and systematically raped dozens of students as young as eight, as well as their…

For those of you feel that Obama would have lost if only the press had paid more attention to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, consider this finding from a fascinating new Pew study of press coverage of religion in the campaign: “Looking at the entire primary season and general election period together – from January through mid-October…

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