Posted on November 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Defending the Faith Winter Conference takes place January 31 through February 2, 2005.
(AgapePress) – Defending the Christian faith in an anti-Christian culture—that is the focus of an event planned for early next year in Florida.
Answers in Genesis (AIG) is sponsoring the “Defending the Faith” winter conference at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [...]
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Filed under: Ministries
Posted on November 28th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
President Bush : “On Thanksgiving, and on every day of the year, America is a more hopeful nation because of the volunteers who serve the weak and the vulnerable.”
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) – President Bush issued a holiday-season call on Americans to volunteer and give to charity – “to share our blessings with the least [...]
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Filed under: By Example
Posted on November 28th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for church traditionalists opposed to homosexuality to stop using inflammatory words about gay people.
Dr Rowan Williams, in a letter to the world’s Anglican churches, said harsh language can lead to murder.
His comments come as the Church is embroiled in a bitter global row about the ordination of gay bishops.
Some [...]
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Filed under: Homosexuality
Posted on November 28th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
United Future MP Paul Adams is fasting for 21 days in the hope God will answer his prayers and stop the passage of the Civil Union Bill.
Adams, a committed Christian, began his fast on Monday and has only drunk water since in a bid to halt the bill, which gives same-sex relationships the same legal [...]
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Filed under: Gay Marriage
Posted on November 27th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
European Christians fighting against hope for the EU to recognize its Christian heritage.
Notable quote: “An EU official said: ‘These Christians could at least have the good grace to accept that they lost the argument.’”
Will the collective voice of 1.1 million Christians be heard?
More than a million people from all over Europe are to deliver a [...]
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Filed under: Church and State
Posted on November 27th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Annual report card on video games released by the National Institute on Media and the Family
WASHINGTON (AP)—Video games that have players shoot rival gang members, watch bare-breasted women and recreate the assassination of President Kennedy were criticized Tuesday by advocacy groups that said, at the least, they should be kept away from children.
In issuing [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 26th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Need sound financial guidance? Try the Bible.
The back of a dollar bill reads “In God we trust,” and Lake Zurich resident Joe Dunsey’s mission is to help people do that when money is involved.
After wading through his own financial problems, Dunsey decided to teach others to avoid his mistakes. He quit his job and [...]
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Filed under: Money
Posted on November 26th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Spreading the message of Islam through the hip-hop culture.
When David Kelly—aka “Capital D”—raps, he doesn’t follow the mainstream mantra of women, cars and jewelry.
Instead, the Chicago rapper uses his rhymes to dish out praise for Allah, criticize the war in Iraq and blast corporate America.
Kelly is among a new group of Muslim rap artists gaining [...]
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Filed under: Music and Movies
Posted on November 26th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Riyadh prisons are full of Christians but also Shiites and heretical Sufi practitioners.
Riyadh (AsiaNews) – Brian Savio OConnors case is but the latest one in a long series of arrests, torture and abductions endured by Christians in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi regimes oppression of anything that is not Wahhabi Islam is raising fears among the [...]
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Filed under: Persecution
Posted on November 26th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Hanadi Hindi will challenge religious conservatives as the first female pilot where women are not even allowed to drive.
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi woman is set to challenge religious conservatives by becoming the first female pilot in a country where women are not even allowed to drive.
Hanadi Hindi, who trained for a pilot’s license in [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 25th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
From sex skit to rumble in Detroit, hypocrisy reigns
We’re guaranteed to thoroughly explore at least two of the seven deadly sins this national Turkey Day. Sloth and gluttony are safely employed for another year.
But why stop there?
Watch sports on TV during your Thanksgiving festivities, and you may have all seven sins covered by the [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 25th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Sarah Hale persisted until Thanksgiving Day was made official.
Sarah Beull unrolled her brother’s gift to her. Horatio had given her a homemade diploma. “Mistress of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Horatio Gates Beull College,” it read.
Probably Sarah laughed. All through Horatio’s years at Dartmouth College, he had brought home his Latin, Mathematics and philosophy books and [...]
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Filed under: History
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Is the Air Force Academy pushing Christianity while biasing other faiths?
“Christianity seems to be ingrained at the academy, where 90 percent of cadets are either Protestant or Catholic.”
The day after the Air Force Academys superintendent said publicly that the academy was coping with a religious intolerance problem, football coach Fisher DeBerry hung [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Air Force Academy reinforces its long standing policy on appropriate use of government email.
Air Force Academy – Complaints this fall about staff members putting New Testament verses at the bottom of their Air Force Academy e-mail recently led to a crackdown on the practice.
Lt. Col. Laurent Fox said academy officials sent a memo to everyone [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 21st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
More discussion on the addictive effects of pornography.
Experts on pornography’s effects on brain chemistry testified at a Senate hearing this week where a key point of discussion was whether porn is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment or addictive material that should be unlawful.
Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover described how pornography is analogous to [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine.
Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.
Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on November 21st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Julia Cook, her husband Lance Cpl. Justin Cook, and all of those affected by this senseless random act of violence.
YORK, Pennsylvania (AP)—A Marine serving in a war zone in Iraq rushed back home to be with his pregnant wife Friday after she was wounded in an apparent random [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Bobby Frank Cherry was 74
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP)—Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.
Cherry, suffering from cancer, died in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.
Cherry was convicted [...]
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Filed under: History
Posted on November 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Billy Graham Brings His Evangelism Back to Los Angeles 55 Years After Key Tent Revival
Nov. 19, 2004 – Fifty-five years after a tent revival here that helped him become one of the world’s most recognized religious leaders, Billy Graham opened a four-day crusade before a 45,000-strong Rose Bowl crowd by doing what he’s devoted a [...]
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Filed under: Missions
Posted on November 20th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
New Pentateuch translation from original Hebrew meanings
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters)—It is considered the most magisterial opening in English literature: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
But now a major revisionist translation of the Bible would have the cosmos begin with a more conversational clause: “When God began to create heaven and earth [...]
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