So, when Newsweek, now back in print under new ownership, let loose its first issue of the New Year on the Bible, I held out the hope that the article would be fair, journalistically credible, and interesting, even if written from a more liberal perspective.
Read moreThe percentages varied hugely by region. In London the figure for gay, lesbians or bisexual was 3.2% but in the North East region, it was only 1.1%.
Read moreFor example, one twin might have exposure to pornography or sexual abuse, but not the other. One twin may interpret and respond to their family or classroom environment differently than the other. "These individual and idiosyncratic responses to random events and to common environmental factors predominate," he says.
Identical twin studies prove homosexuality is not genetic
Read moreEveryone has regrets. Some of us have big regrets. Most everyone has some place to go to get help dealing with them.
Except for, say, a guy who had sex-change surgery and now would like to have his penis back. (The one God gave him.)
Even in Baghdad, where Islamic State has been held at bay, Christians have fled. The IS offensive in Mosul, which wiped out Christians who have lived there since Apostolic times - has persuaded Baghdad Christians to leave.
Read moreLewis was a man who understood the lessons of history. He prophetically warned the West of what would happen if we veered away from the moral foundations of an authentically free society. We have done so and the decline is evident everywhere. Progress has been placed in peril under the banner of a progressive movement.
Read morePuritans of 16th and 17th century were horrified. In the 1580s Philip Stubbes, author of the "Anatomie of Abuses," complained that there was "more mischief in that time committed than in all the year...robbery, whoredom and murder, and what is not committed? What dicing and carding, what eating and drinking, what banqueting and feasting is then used, more than all the year besides, to the great dishonour of God and impoverishing of the realm."
Read moreDuring my upbringing, I heard a few fiery sermons on homosexuality. These days, I hear declarations of love instead. They make me shout for joy. Amen! It always should have been so! At the same time, however, many pastors have begun accompanying this love with an eschewal of Biblical sexual morality as oppressive, unreasonable, or unkind. Hence, loving homosexual persons also comes to entail affirming and encouraging them in same-sex sexual relationships and behaviors.
Read moreMost pastors have failed to fulfill their responsibility to alert their flock to the dangers that the church is now facing. Consequently, most Christians cower in the face of abusive attacks by those promoting a homosexualist agenda, just as the disciples fled at Gethsemane when Jesus was arrested.
Read moreU.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves struck down Mississippi's same-sex marriage ban in a ruling last month. Gay couples cannot yet marry in Mississippi pending the outcome of a state appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which is hearing arguments in the case on Jan. 9.
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