Poll: American’s faith in government, media plummets
Americans’ confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured attitudes on the subject for 40 years. The 2014 General Social Survey...
View ArticleSci Fi Buddhism: Close Encounters of the PR kind
The Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Thailand is one of a kind, with its flying-saucer shaped stupa made from thousands of golden Buddha statues. It sits at the heart of a religious complex the size of an...
View ArticleAuthor: Christians in West just don’t care about slaughter of Christians...
[A new book contends that] Western Christians don’t care enough about the threat posed by the Islamic State [of Iraq and Levant], which is attempting to wipe out Christianity in the Middle East. “I am...
View ArticleExorcist priest: ‘ISIL is Satan’
In a recent Facebook post, well-known Roman exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth said the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) “is Satan,” and he also questioned the lack of response from Western...
View ArticleExorcist author writes about life after the death of his son
“Exorcist” author William Peter Blatty has a new book out. Titled “Finding Peter,” it’s part comic memoir, part argument for life after death. Blatty, a lifelong Catholic, lays out a number of curious...
View ArticleCorrespondent questions Obama’s silence on outrages against Christians
A group of Muslims recently threw a dozen Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy for praying to Jesus. When Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi dismissed it as a one-off...
View Article‘March for marriage’ swells in size, marked by diversity
WASHINGTON — What may have been the most diverse gathering of activists ever in Washington, D.C., gathered Saturday to “March for Marriage.” While the rainbow is often used as a symbol of diversity for...
View ArticleIn the vast marketplace of ideas, there’s Drudge . . . and everybody else
While as a liberal, I do not suggest the following with a great deal of pleasure, but Matt Drudge is by far the single most influential person in the American media, and it is fair to ask: Is he the...
View ArticleCruz: If not for Dad’s conversion, ‘I would have been raised by a single mother’
Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced his presidential bid at Liberty University, a well-known conservative, Christian college founded by Jerry Falwell. It’s a testament to his faith...
View ArticleAmerica’s leftward lurch tied to changed views on sexual morality
Americans’ acceptance of [what was once widely considered] sexual immorality is growing, according to a Gallup report. When asked about the moral acceptability of a range of issues, five of the top six...
View ArticleGene blame game: Current lifestyle abuse could be passed on to future...
Genetic faults caused by trauma, poor lifestyle or environmental stress can be passed down to future generations, scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered. … Although the same genes...
View ArticleAmericans’ faith in organized religion falls from No. 1 to below the police
Americans have less confidence in organized religion today than ever measured before — a sign that the church could be “losing its footing as a pillar of moral leadership in the nation’s culture,” a...
View ArticleCrowd-funding campaigns for Christian firms targeted by gay lobby shut down...
More than $210,000 has been raised in support of the Oregon Christian bakers who are being forced by the state to pay $135,000 in “emotional damages” to a lesbian couple for declining to bake them a...
View ArticleMormon church, which sponsors most scout units, rethinking its affiliation...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has said it will be re-evaluating its long-standing participation in the Boy Scouts of America, following the latter’s decision to end its blanket ban on...
View ArticleResearcher: Planned Parenthood sale of aborted body parts has been going on...
An undercover investigation uncovered Planned Parenthood’s sale of body parts from aborted babies 20 years ago. . . . It’s at least 20 years this has been going on,” says Mark Crutcher, founder of Life...
View ArticleChristians who esaped ISIL hell in Iraq jailed as illegal aliens in California
A Middle Eastern Christian community has demanded that immigration officials release 20 Iraqi Christian refugees being held at a detention center in California. … “It is important to understand that...
View ArticleMegachurch preacher invites Donald Trump to private ‘prayer service’
Republican presidential contender and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump will meet privately with a group of Christian leaders at the behest of Florida megachurch pastor and prosperity preacher Paula...
View ArticleConscientious objector to gay marriage jailed in Kentucky until she bows to...
A county clerk in Kentucky has been found guilty of contempt and sent to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her own religious objections. Kim Davis, the clerk at...
View ArticleWho is Kim Davis? Clerk who went to prison over same sex marriage is...
Rarely does a county clerk became the center of a national media firestorm. But Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, has become trapped in the eye of the national media hurricane that has...
View ArticleGod’s promise after the flood and a Sept. 10, 2015 photo
Photos showing a rainbow appearing to originate from the World Trade Center on the eve of Sept. 11 are quickly being shared online as they elicit emotional responses from admirers [and call to mind...
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