Egypt: Mob burns Adventist Church in Assiut (ANN)
The Assiut Adventist Church, located approximately 220 miles south of Cairo, was attacked by a mob and heavily damaged after it was set on…
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August 2013
July 2013
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…
June 2013
No upside for babies – NIH should withdraw funding for research on cannabis use during pregnancy
An NIH-funded study at the University of Washington is intended to determine whether there are adverse effects of cannabis use by pregnant women on…
Down the Rabbit Hole: What’s Really at Stake With Domestic Surveillance? (Huffington Post)
Ryan J. Bell writes the following for the Huffington Post, excerpted briefly below. Click here to read the full article. EXCERPT: [box]We know that…
Prayers, Parks, and Monuments: Litigation Over Religious Symbols in America
By Jason Hines - Now the clock is ticking for the group because there are KY tourism tax incentives for the project that are…
May 2013
A Concentrated Blaze of Truth to Shine Against Darkness
By Ellen White -When trees without fruit are cut down as cumberers of the ground, when multitudes of false brethren are distinguished from the…
The Church is the University. The University is the Church.
For institutions whose founding and resulting success can be traced back to the unapologetic pursuit of Biblical truth, forfeiting the foundation and expecting the…
April 2013
In Romania, Adventists launch ‘Freedom Caravan’ to defend religious liberty (ANN)
Apr. 23, 2013 Bucharest, Romania RUC staff/Adventist News Network s Romanian legislators consider changes to the national constitution, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is sponsoring…
Liberty in Milton’s Paradise Lost (Liberty Magazine)
In opposition to many of his Calvinist colleagues who believed in predestination, Milton argued, through the unrhymed lines of poetry in Paradise Lost, that…
States Rights and the Religion Clauses: Examining the North Carolina Resolution
This week, two members of the North Carolina House of Representatives submitted a resolution which would declare that “the Constitution of the United States…