Rowland Croucher
Persecution in Nigeria
Here’s the original article: YWAM BASE THWARTS ISLAMIC ATTACK AND SEES ATTACKERS TURN TO GOD (Sometime before Oct-Nov. 2009): A few months ago Taliban-trained militants from Iran marched to within 300 yards of one of our YWAM campuses, destroying much along the way. They had already burned 27 Christian churches in the area killing hundreds […]
Islamists impose sharia by stealth
* Daniel Pipes * November 05, 2009 9:51PM TO borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden represent Islamism 1.0, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the French intellectual, Tariq Ramadan, represent Islamism 2.0. The former are more deadly but the latter will likely do greater long-term damage. The […]
Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt
From forbes.com Press Release Pioneering Report on Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt 11.10.09, 09:23 AM EST WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt – a pioneering report on human trafficking-was released today by Christian Solidarity International (CSI) […]
Eugene Peterson
Eugene H Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 1992) In Under the Unpredictable Plant, Eugene Peterson charts the subversive story of Jonah and how it can help pastors develop a spirituality adequate for their calling. He writes with personal honesty and with biblical insight, drawing on decades of […]
The Jihad Seminar of Major Nidal M. Hasan
The contents of a two-year old seminar presented by Major Nidal M. Hasan, the medico believed responsible for the Fort Hood massacre, were apparently recorded in the form of powerpoint slides. These slides are in one sense nothing new. They review the basics of Islam: the pillars and core beliefs, the Koran, abrogation (‘later verses […]
Catholics can believe in alien life
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, who heads the prestigious Vatican Observatory, says man “cannot set limits on God’s creative freedom.” He spokes at a conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Science to debate the origin, evolution and future of life in the universe. READ MORE
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Crusading for Women Christians can lead the charge to elevate the dignity of women. A review of Half the Sky. *Review by Carolyn McCulley* | posted 11/12/2009 09:10AM * Half the Sky:Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide * By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Knopf, September 2009 320 pp., $15.97 *”W*omen hold up […]
Imprisoning Juveniles
*Sightings* 11/12/09 Religion-Based Arguments in Juvenile Life Without Parole Cases — Joan Gottschall Those interested in the intersection of religious values and public policy, and particularly criminal justice policy, should take note of a brief filed this past summer in the Supreme Court of the United States in the joined cases of *Graham v. Florida*, […]
Welcome to the real Narnia (Bishop Tom Wright)
Welcome to the real Narnia The hidden medieval message at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s classic Chronicles Tom Wright Our age is dominated by Saturn, and it is time to rediscover Jupiter. It is safe to say that few if any of the millions who have read C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia would […]
50 People Every Christian Should Know
Ignatius Loyola used to be encouraged reading the lives of great Christians, remarking that since they were as human as he was he knew he could be as saintly as they were… In addition to Wiersbe’s book, (reviewed by my friend Bill Muelenberg below) two recent collections of biographies I’ve been reading in my devotions […]
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