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April 1 2010
Chris Anderson: Piper Invites Rick Warren to Speak at His Bible Conference
This has been rumored for a while, but SharperIron confirmed with Desiring God yesterday that Rick Warren has indeed been invited to participate as a speaker at their 2010 conference. There will surely be a loud response to this from various perspectives in the days ahead. Phil Johnson’s brief tweet gives a taste of how it’s being received by some conservative evangelicals. Buckle up. There is a “red sky” this morning, sailors. The blogosphere is about to erupt with all things Piper and Warren, I imagine. MORE |
USA Today: Millennials Do Faith and Politics Their Own Way
....Born after 1980, Millennials constitute the first generation to come of age in the new millennium. According to Pew, this cohort of teens and twenty-somethings is "confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change." But what of religion? What can this Millennial generation tell us about where American religion is going? The core finding of Pew's "Religion Among the Millennials" report is that young Americans are "less religiously affiliated" than their elders. In fact, one in four of Americans ages 18 to 29 do not affiliate with any particular religious group. MORE |
Christian Sues Lowe's for Religious Discrimination For Forcing Sunday Work
A Lowe’s Home Center in east Tennessee is being sued for discrimination because it forced an employee who is Baptist to work on Sundays, although he said he held sincere religious beliefs against working on the Sabbath.
The lawsuit, filed Monday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said employee Mark Buehler submitted two written requests for a religious accommodation not to be scheduled for work on Sunday at the Morristown, Tenn., store. MORE |
N.Y. Times Columnist: Death Panels Will Save 'a Lot of Money'
Left-leaning New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman says the so-called "death panels" established by President Obama's trillion-dollar nationalized health-care plan will end up saving "a lot of money" for the government. The comments from Krugman came during a discussion of "Obamacare" on the ABC News Sunday program "This Week." MORE |
Bachmann: Do We Want the USA to ‘Collapse From Our Own Welfare State?’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told CNSNews.com that "expensive entitlement programs" are "bringing our country down," and Americans will have to choose between surviving as a country or collapsing "from our own welfare state." MORE |
So. Calif. City Won't Shut Down Home Bible Group
Officials of a city in the greater Los Angeles area confirmed Tuesday that they have rescinded the order for a home Bible study group to either obtain a permit or shut down. After talking to the pastor of Shiloh Tabernacle Church, the city official of Rancho Cucamonga determined that the Friday meetings are only Bible studies and that the group is not operating as a church in a home. MORE |
Groups Blast Obama's Appointment of Gay Activist
Conservative and Christian groups are increasingly voicing opposition to President Obama's recent recess appointment of a homosexual activist to his administration. Chai Feldblum, a lesbian Georgetown University Law Center professor, was appointed over the weekend as commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. MORE |
Biblical Plagues Really Happened, Say Scientists
Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather than explaining them as the wrathful act of a vengeful God, the scientists claim the plagues can be attributed to a chain of natural phenomena triggered by changes in the climate and environmental disasters that happened hundreds of miles away. MORE |
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