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In the Middle: God Is Still Writing Our Stories
By Jason Hines – It’s been an interesting week in my household, with its positives and negatives. Unfortunately, the negatives have outweighed the positives and we find ourselves with new challenges that we were not expecting. When negative things happen,…
A Call for Peace in the Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage
Calls for protecting “religious liberty” have expanded beyond school prayer and religious monuments on government property to become a rallying call for the Christian right in America following the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage, the Obamacare contraception mandate, reports of anti-Christian activity in the military, and anti-discrimination ordinances protecting the LGBT community. This…
Pakistan: Adventist Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Blasphemy (ANN)
Sajjad Masih, 29, was convicted of sending blasphemous text messages in 2011, despite his accuser’s subsequent retraction and prosecutors’ failure to produce any evidence of his involvement.
International Report: Human Rights at Risk in Australian Internment Camp
Today Australia faces a moral question for our age. This time it isn’t desperate European Jews searching for a sanctuary, it is desperate Iranians fleeing one of the world’s most repressive regimes. It is Iraqi Christians who have been murdered, bombed and beaten unmercifully since the invasion that we were a part of. It is shell-shocked Syrians caught between a despotic ruler on one side and jihadists on the other.
The Firebrand: The Dangers of Speaking Truth to Power (Liberty Magazine)
The story of Savonarola is not a lesson in the necessity of violence for a successful revolution, but rather a lesson in the dangerous consequences of speaking truth to power.