He knows how myopic Western Christians can be. His subtitle says it all: "Drinking from the Poisoned Wells of the Cultural Revolution." In this book he speaks of how the church in the West once blazed brightly, but now the flame is all but out.

He notes how the corruption is found everywhere, but especially in church leadership. All this is resulting in declining church numbers and the irrelevance of Christianity for so many people in the West. Writes Sookhdeo:

CBN News' David Brody asked Pence about the incident in a wide-ranging interview published Thursday.

"I'm pro-life and don't apologize for it," the vice president said, and Wolf's attack "comes with the territory." He then cited James 1:2, saying "I count it all joy when I endure trials or criticisms."

When a new outgoing boy began to attend school when Bailey was in grade three, he remembers trying hard to become the boy's friend. It was during a sleepover at the boy's house that Bailey was introduced to sexual play, including streaking and oral copulation. The experience not only robbed him of his childhood innocence, but awakened in him a sense of sexual curiosity.

Stark estimates that there were no more than a thousand Christians in 40 AD. However, by the third century, Christianity was growing at the rate of 40 per cent per decade. There were 33 million Christians in the Roman Empire out of a total population of 60 million by 350 AD. Christians were so numerous at the dawn of the fourth century that Emperor Constantine found it politically expedient to embrace Christianity.