Author’s note:  This is the first article in a mini-series of articles reviewing Almost Christian by Princeton professor Kenda Creasy Dean.  All quotes without direct links are directly from the book’s first few chapters.  To hear Dr. Brown’s review of this book, click here.
A large-scale departure from a biblical understanding of what living as a [...]

Last month a couple was arrested in California for attempting to sell their six-month-old baby to two women for $25, according to a statement released by police.  Both parents are being charged with child endangerment as well as drug-related charges.  Thirty-eight-year-old Patrick Fousek’s fellow inmates took justice into their own hands, attacking him after [...]

In January of this year, the Journal of Marriage and Family published a study that concluded that it was unnecessary for children to be raised by both a mother and a father. USA today sums up the study here:
Sociologists Stacey and Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California, spent five years reviewing 81 studies [...]

Burning Idols
Idolatry in the West is often subtle, taking the form of addictions, money, power, etc… but in some parts of the world, the ancient forms of idolatry spoken of by the Old Testament prophets are still being practiced, and as people come to the Lord, they literally cast their idols and ritual instruments away [...]

President Obama has so far largely avoided taking a public stand on his views regarding abortion, using the distraction created by the economic situation facing the U.S. as well as moderate rhetoric to avoid a direct confrontation from pro-life Americans. However, he has already passed many pro-abortion bills and reversed several of former President [...]

A Florida woman named Tonuya Rainey has been jailed for illegally aborting her daughter’s 24 week old baby boy and throwing him in the trash, and is now facing charges of “illegally terminating a pregnancy, child abuse and improper disposal of human remains.”  Her daughter said that the baby was “breathing and moving his arms after birth,” a piece of information that horrified [...]

The debate over embryonic stem-cell research is at the forefront of many people’s minds with President Obama’s recent decision to overturn former President Bush’s restrictions on its federal funding. There are some basic questions that must be asked in the [...]

President Obama has overturned the restrictions on the federal funding of stem-cell research that were set in place by the Bush administration in August 2001, when President Bush limited funding because of “fundamental questions about the beginnings of life and the ends of science.” [...]

On Thursday January 22, 2009 from 11:30-12:30, approximately one to two hundred people from different churches and pro-life organizations gathered at the intersection of Trade and Tryon in Charlotte, NC for a church service as a memorial for the unborn children who have been and continue to be killed under the [...]

For the past five months, an underground campaign of violence directed against Christians has erupted in Orissa (one of the poorest states in India) and spread to several surrounding states as well.  According to a London online newspaper as of November 20, 2008, there have been 67 Christians killed, thousands of homes burned, hundreds of places of worship destroyed [...]