Associated Press
CHICAGO - When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.
An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors “need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle.”
More than half of randomly surveyed adults — 57 percent — said God’s intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile. And nearly three-quarters said patients have a right to demand such treatment.
When asked to imagine their own relatives being gravely ill or injured, nearly 20 percent of doctors and other medical workers said God could reverse a hopeless outcome…
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Allie Martin - OneNewsNow
Todd Bentley will step down as head of Fresh Fire Ministries, after the ministry revealed he had an “unhealthy relationship” with a female staffer. That announcement comes one week after Bentley’s ministry announced he and his wife were separating.
The announcement from the board of directors acknowledged that Bentley had an “unhealthy relationship” on an emotional level with the female staff member. Bentley is best known for leading a series of public meetings in Florida since April that have attracted around 300,000 people to churches and a baseball stadium.
The Canadian evangelist will also cease all public meetings, including a 38-city stadium tour of U.S. cities.
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Jim Brown - OneNewsNow
The moderator of Saturday night’s presidential forum on faith — Pastor Rick Warren — says Barack Obama failed to adequately address the question of when life begins.
Senator Obama (D-Illinois) told Pastor Warren that it was “above [his] pay grade” to determine at what point a baby should be given human rights.
Following the forum, Pastor Warren criticized Obama’s decision to dodge the question. In an interview with Beliefnet.com, Warren said “to just say ‘I don’t know’ on the most divisive issue in America is not a clear enough answer for me.”
Warren went on to suggest Obama’s non-answer will not sit well with many Christians. As Warren puts it: “If an evangelical really believes that the Bible is literal — in other word[s], in Psalm 139 God says ‘I formed you in your mother’s womb and before you were born I planned every day of your life’ — if they believe that’s literally true, then they can’t just walk away from that. They can add other issues, but they can’t walk away from the belief that at conception God planned that child, and to abort it would be to short circuit the purpose.”…
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By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
I’m not talking about church people in general. I’m talking about real Christians. I don’t care their denominational tag any more than God cares about their denominational tag. I’m caring about the living-out-Jesus-believer who knows His Bible and seeks to breathe it out.
Now why is it that the world by and large hates this Christian? His Christianity? His Jesus?
It’s because Jesus doesn’t fit in here. He never did fit in here. Therefore, till the end of world spin there will never be a love affair between the world in general and Jesus in particular.
But what’s the reason? …
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CBN
Once a high-dollar escort, Ateba Crocker is now a woman’s advocate for Christ…
CNSNews.com
Women who have had abortions, scientists, and pro-life advocates are joining forces to refute the findings of an American Psychological Association (APA) task force that claims women who have one abortion do not experience any more mental problems than women who decide to give birth.
“The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion or deliver the pregnancy,” said Brenda Mayor, lead psychologist on the APA task force, in a press release about the report, which was released last week.
The study has outraged women like Leslee Unruh, whose decision to have an abortion inspired her to dedicate her life to helping other women who she says have lived to regret that decision and who say they have suffered both emotional and physical damage as a result…
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KXLY-TV, Spokane
WICHITA, KN — A lawsuit boiling in Wichita, Kansas over an English-only policy could have major ramifications for a Catholic school.
Saint Anne’s Catholic school, its principal, the church and the diocese are being sued for implementing an English only policy at school.
When some students refused to sign a pledge to honor the policy they were expelled and their parents filed suit.
Three families are suing alleging that the policy discriminates against those who speak other languages and lawyers for the families say it’s racial discrimination and therefore violates their civil rights…
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WorldNetDaily
A new congressional study has found that more than 20 Muslim nations deny entry to American and other foreign religious workers, WND has learned, even as the U.S. State Department grants entry to hundreds of clerics from their countries each year.
The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and most other Middle Eastern countries still refuse to offer religious visas, they and deny entry to U.S. clergy as official policy, according to a report by the Law Library of Congress, the foreign legal research arm of the U.S. Congress. In a shocker, U.S. allies Afghanistan and Iraq also made the list of religious refuseniks…
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WorldNetDaily
A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter’s tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.
The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.
Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death “following a heated debate on religion,” according to an International Christian Concern report.
The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released…
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WorldNetDaily
A federal judge in California has issued a decision endorsing the University of California’s decision to discriminate against coursework done by high school students if it includes a Christian viewpoint.
“Defendants [the University of California system] necessarily facilitate some viewpoints over others in judging the excellence of those students applying to UC,” said the new opinion from U.S. District Judge S. James Otero.
The judge concluded the UC system was correct to reject courses from major book publishers including Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Books, a Florida publishing powerhouse, because they include a Christian perspective…
WorldNetDaily
A court ruling that school officials legally could determine that a Christmastime Christian message is “offensive” and therefore ban it from an elementary school is being submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the hope the decision will be overturned, according to the Alliance Defense Fund.
“The First Amendment exists to protect private speakers, not to enable religious discrimination by government officials,” said Jeff Shafer, senior legal counsel for the ADF. “The court of appeals’ unprecedented classification of student religious speech as an ‘offense’ worthy of censorship should be reversed.”
The case began in 2003 when Joel Curry, a fifth-grade student at Handley School in Saginaw, Mich., participated in a classroom project in which students were given guidelines to develop a product and “sell” it during a “Classroom City” event just before Christmas…Click here to read entire story
Chicago Tribune
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. - Chip Wall can’t help but zero in on the little stuff whenever he watches Barack Obama on TV.
The turn of the smile, the sharp wit, the comfortable self-assuredness, all of which he saw up close, a half-century ago.
It’s his old pal Stanley.
For Wall and a few dozen others, Obama on the campaign trail often brings to mind Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.
“She was not a standard-issue girl of her times. … She wasn’t part of the matched-sweater-set crowd,” said Wall, a classmate and retired philosophy teacher who used to make after-school runs to Seattle with Dunham to sit and talk — for hours and hours — in coffee shops.
“She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could argue,” said Maxine Box, who was Dunham’s best friend in high school. “She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn’t.”
The education of Obama the would-be politician didn’t begin, of course, until after his birth in 1961, in Honolulu. But the parental traits that would mold him — a contrarian worldview, an initial rejection of organized religion, a questioning nature — were already taking shape years earlier in the nomadic and sometimes tempestuous Dunham family, where the only child was a curious and precocious daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley — after himself…
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Jim Brown - OneNewsNow
The editor of a pro-life news service says a draft copy of the proposed Democratic Party platform that will be approved later this month in Denver continues the party’s historic pro-abortion stance and mirrors Barack Obama’s extreme support for abortion.
The proposed Democratic Party platform announces unequivocal support for Roe v. Wade and direct taxpayer funding of abortions. Steven Ertelt, editor of LifeNews.com, obtained the draft platform from a pro-life group that is urging the Democratic Party to moderate its stance on abortion.
Ertelt says the platform draft also expresses support for the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” — a bill Senator Obama promised Planned Parenthood last summer would be the first piece of legislation he signs as president. According to Ertelt, the measure would overturn all of the pro-life laws nationwide…
CBN
President Bush is encouraging China once again to allow greater religious freedom…
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