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Richard Land urges Senate committee to enact FDA regulation of tobacco
Dr. Richard Land gave the following remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Feb. 27, 2007.
Good morning, Mr. more »
by: staff - Feb 27, 2007 - comments: 2 - topic(s): Family, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Children
Fashionable and Modest? Absolutely!
Today’s teen girls look to many places to pattern their sense of self, but none more consistently than magazines such as Teen People, YM, Teen, Seventeen, Jump, and CosmoGirl. more »
by: Dannah Gresh - Feb 27, 2007 - comments: 2 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry, Family, Parenting, Pop Culture, Sexual Purity, Modesty
Gonzales Launches Religious Liberty Initiative
“Why should it be permissible for an employee standing around the water cooler to declare that ‘Tiger Woods is God,’ but a firing offense for him to say ‘Jesus is Lord’?” asked U.S. more »
by: Jill Waggoner - Feb 27, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
Anna Nicole Smith: APA poster girl
Oh, irony of ironies.
The secular news media paused for a moment during its coverage of the sad circus surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith to report that the American Psychological Association has “found evidence that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls’ self-image and healthy development.” more »
by: Karen Cole - Feb 27, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry, Family, Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Children, Parenting, Pop Culture, Sexual Purity, Modesty, Pornography
Rating the Presidents
It is only appropriate this week—as we mark the birthdays of two of our most beloved presidents—that we ask the question: Who’s number one in U.S. more »
by: Dwayne Hastings - Feb 19, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Citizenship
Amazing Grace: One Man’s Lifelong Quest
Amazing Grace, the must-see movie about William Wilberforce’s nearly lifelong effort to abolish the British slave trade, is opening in theaters this Friday. more »
by: Karen Cole - Feb 19, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Family, Pop Culture, Citizenship, Human Rights
Sperm donor: “Happy Valentines Day! I’m your father!”
The New York Times featured an unusual Valentines Day story this year.
It seems a formerly anonymous California sperm donor decided the occasion would be a good one for contacting his many and far-flung offspring after reading that two of them had located each other through a donor registry. more »
by: Karen Cole - Feb 19, 2007 - topic(s): Family, Children, Parenting, Life, Infertility
Massive smuggling and prostitution ring busted
Those who are skeptical about the reality of sex trafficking in the United States should be watching a court case currently playing out in Austin, Texas. more »
by: staff - Feb 13, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Family, Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Purity, Citizenship, Human Rights, Social Issues
Soviet Statues Fall for Reagan
Citizens in the Polish town of Katowice are petitioning the city’s government to pull down a monument to Soviet troops who drove the Nazis out of their town in 1945 and replace it with statue of Ronald Reagan. more »
by: Richard Land - Feb 13, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, Human Rights, Religious Liberty
Global Warming Debate Heats Up
Radical environmental activists are calling for British sweethearts to either purchase their Valentine’s Day bouquets from local growers or grow their own. more »
by: Jill Waggoner - Feb 12, 2007 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Science, Environment