Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Did Politics Fuel Arson at Palin's Church?
By Paul Steven Ghiringhelli
The hometown church of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was set on fire last Friday night, rousing the former vice presidential nominee from bed and prompting her to tell church leaders she's sorry if her high visibility in any way caused the incident.
“If there's anything that I've done to draw negative attention to that good church, I certainly apologize for it,” Palin later told Greta Van Susteren of FOX News, after reports of the fire made national headlines.
One Washington-based conservative is calling on officials to conduct a thorough investigation that does not rule out gay rights extremism as a motivating factor.
“We do not know if this...
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Robert A. Schuller Resigns From Crystal Cathedral
The Rev. Robert A. Schuller resigned as senior pastor of Crystal Cathedral Ministries roughly a month after he was removed from the church’s Hour of Power television program.
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NAE Leader Resigns After Backing Civil Unions
Richard Cizik, the longtime Washington lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), resigned Thursday after mentioning in a National Public Radio interview that he believed in civil unions for gay couples.
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Christians Using Art to Calm Violence, Evangelize
The scarred intersection on Chicago's north side was the battleground for a dozen rival street gangs. At the corner of Sheridan Road and Sunnyside Avenue, memorials marked the spot where slain gang members had fallen.
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How Newsweek Twisted the Truth About Same-Sex Marriage
by J. Lee Grady
In its Dec. 15 cover story, the magazine tried to rewrite the Bible. Don't believe the lies.
If awards were given for shock journalism, Newsweek would win the prize for its provacative Dec. 15 cover story. The headline, hanging above a simple black Bible with a rainbow-striped ribbon sticking out of it, reads: "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage." With one big kaboom, writer Lisa Miller dropped a literary bomb on 2,000 years of Christian scholarship by suggesting that Jesus would have been OK with Matthew marrying Mark and Luke marrying John.
We are accustomed to mainstream journalists shoving evolution down our throats as if no scientists in the world doubt that theory. But Miller's diatribe against...
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