Guest Commentary

• Couple Beaten, Congregation Member Missing in Persecution of Church in China Following the arrest of 44 worshipers from house church meetings in southwestern China in February, police in Chengdu this month arrested a married couple from the church and beat them during interrogation, the church reported.... Mar 15, 2019

  

  Couple Beaten, Congregation Member Missing in Persecution of Church in China
• Southern Baptist Executive, Experts Say Churches Should Address Abuse of Adults A Southern Baptist publishing executive recently revealed that she was a victim of alleged abuse for more than a decade from another Baptist leader. Mar 15, 2019

  

  Southern Baptist Executive, Experts Say Churches Should Address Abuse of Adults
• How Lent Prepares Us for What Is Lost When I was a little girl, my parents would bribe me with a dollar for every poem I memorized. It is disconcerting to see a child recite some of the sexier parts of Romeo and Juliet, but, what can I say, that was my idea of... Mar 15, 2019

  

  How Lent Prepares Us for What Is Lost
• 49 Killed, 20 Injured in Christchurch Mosques in Deadliest Mass Shooting in New Zealand History 49 people were killed Friday when several people opened fire in two New Zealand mosques. Mar 15, 2019

  49 Killed, 20 Injured in Christchurch Mosques in Deadliest Mass Shooting in New Zealand History
• Man Shows Simple Act of Kindness, Buys Servicemen Chick-fil-A in Honor of Late Brother with PTSD Jonathan Full didn’t hesitate before choosing to pay for the meals of 11 servicemen and women at a local Chick-fil-a in Durham, North Carolina, choosing to honor his late stepbrother who suffered from post-traumatic stress... Mar 14, 2019

  Man Shows Simple Act of Kindness, Buys Servicemen Chick-fil-A in Honor of Late Brother with PTSD
• Report Claims Church Paid People to Fake Medical Miracles After a video of a man being raised from the dead went viral, an investigation found that one South African Church paid people to pretend that the pastor performed miracles on them. Mar 14, 2019

  Report Claims Church Paid People to Fake Medical Miracles
• Jerry Falwell, Jr. Says He Will Raise His Granddaughter as a Girl, Some Liberty University Students Protest Some Liberty University students are protesting against Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki Falwell, after the couple said they would raise their granddaughter “as a girl.” Mar 14, 2019

  Jerry Falwell, Jr. Says He Will Raise His Granddaughter as a Girl, Some Liberty University Students Protest
• Mammoth Statue of Jesus Planned for Russian Site Once Set Aside for Lenin Authorities in Vladivostok, the largest city in far eastern Russia, are planning to erect a gigantic statue of Jesus Christ on a site once designated for a monument of Vladimir Lenin. Mar 14, 2019

  Mammoth Statue of Jesus Planned for Russian Site Once Set Aside for Lenin
• What Part of “No Religious Test” Don’t We Understand? The Constitution says there can be no religious test applied to those seeking office at the federal level (Article 6, clause 3). But lately some on the left are trying to apply a type of religious test against some would-be... Mar 14, 2019

  What Part of “No Religious Test” Don’t We Understand?
• Iowa Supreme Court: Medicaid Must Provide Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery Iowa’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state can no longer ban Medicaid recipients from receiving sex-reassignment surgeries through taxpayer funds, deeming the surgeries “medically necessary.” Mar 13, 2019

  Iowa Supreme Court: Medicaid Must Provide Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery