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ChristianPost |
4:03pm PST |
President's Proposed Cuts May Affect Faith-Based Initiatives |
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Summary: WASHINGTON - President Bush defended his new 2007 spending blueprint on Wednesday amid criticism over plans to cut from social service programs while making major boosts on homeland security and national defense.
One major goal of the proposed $2.77 .. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:18pm PST |
Love Sick |
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Summary: What does it say for a love sick nation that our love doctors (psychologists) study all about our prefrontal cortex but nothing about love? Ever heard of a PhD in Love? |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:09pm PST |
Episcopal Minister Opposes Canonizing Popular Civil Rights Hero |
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Summary: Episcopalians may soon be celebrating the "Feast of St. Thurgood" if the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (DC) has its way. But not all Episcopalians are in agreement with the idea of making the Baltimore, Maryland-born jurist, civil rights activist, and |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:08pm PST |
Online Terror Hunter: Take Off the Blinders -- Hamas Won't Change |
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Summary: Despite some observers' predictions in the western media, a terrorism expert does not expect Hamas to abandon violence for diplomacy following the group's surprise victory in the Palestinian elections in January. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:07pm PST |
Advocate: Home-Schooled Kids Should Have Access to Oprah's Contest |
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Summary: Daytime TV star Oprah Winfrey is under fire again, this time from home education advocates. The Home School Legal Defense Association has asked the influential talk show host, actress and media entrepreneur to stop excluding home-school students from an e |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:07pm PST |
Financial Expert: Consumers Unwise to Use Home Equity Loans to Handle Debt |
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Summary: A Christian radio host, financial expert and consumer advisor is warning against the false spendable income Americans have created for themselves with home equity loans. Debt-Proof Living author Mary Hunt says those loans are encouraging a dangerous pract |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:06pm PST |
Conservative Spokeswomen Claim Radical Feminism Has Hurt America |
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Summary: A conservative editor and television panelist says her new book attempts to warn Americans that feminism is alive and well in contemporary society, where it has produced catastrophic results. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:20am PST |
As More Alabama Churches Get Burned Out, Many Believers Reach Out |
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Summary: Investigators continue searching for suspects and a motive in four suspicious fires that broke out at black churches in rural Alabama early Tuesday. These blazes, added to the five that occurred in Alabama last Friday, bring the count in this string of su |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:20am PST |
Pro-Life Lawmaker Clarifies Connection with ESCR-Promoting Institute |
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Summary: A California state senator says a Christian activist's claims that he is not pro-life are unfounded. The allegations that he and his wife support embryonic stem-cell research are simply untrue, he says. |
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ChristianPost |
9:39am PST |
NAE Seeks to Intervene in Air Force Discrimination Suit |
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Summary: The National Association of Evangelicals plans to file court papers Wednesday asking to intervene in a lawsuit which charges that evangelical Air Force officers discriminate against non-Christians.
The NAE says that it is talking with Air Force attorneys |
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CTI Music |
8:43am PST |
Gospel Music: Great Stories, Flawed Characters |
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Summary: Bil Carpenter literally wrote the book on gospel music, chronicling stories of racism, plagiarism, and more--all without sounding "scandalous." But it's also filled with stories of hope and overcoming. |
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CTI Music |
8:43am PST |
Tomlin Earns 9 GMA Noms |
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Summary: Chris Tomlin leads the pack with nine nominations for the GMA Music Awards; Natalie Grant, Joy Williams, Relient K, and David Crowder Band earn six nods each. |
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CTI Music |
8:43am PST |
A Clarion Call |
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Summary: With its new album, 'The Mission Bell,' Brit rock/worship band Delirious is challenging the church to take more of a stand for the things it believes in. |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences |
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Summary: From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Last year, a newspaper called Jyllands-Posten published several cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, whose physical representation in art is forbidden by Islam. The cartoons aren't particularly good and they were intended to be p |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
11 Myths About Megachurches Debunked |
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Summary: "According to a groundbreaking research study just released by Leadership Network and Hartford Seminary’s Hartford Institute for Religion Research, many of the most widely held beliefs about megachurches could not be farther from the truth." |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Ancient Divorce Laws' Modern Quandary |
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Summary: From the Washington Post:
"I truly believe it would be a terrible thing if I acted like I had a get ," said Rosenbloom, an English teacher who lives in Baltimore. "Do I question my faith? Sure. Do I rail against God? Sure. I can always question, but I am |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Chicago Pastor Arrested During Sermon |
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Summary: A Lutheran pastor who has been the focus of a church dispute between rival factions was arrested on a trespassing charge in the middle of his sermon. |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Image of Christ tops euro coin poll |
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Summary: From the Times of Malta:
The baptism of Christ - as depicted in the sculpture by Giuseppe Mazzuioli at St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta - has emerged as the favourite image among the Maltese to be put on Malta's euro coins after it polled the highest n |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Why can't Muslims take a joke? |
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Summary: Vesteinn writes, "Throughout the world, literacy erodes traditional society, and the collapse of traditional society leads to declining population growth rates. But in the Muslim world these trends hit like a shock wave. Both the traditional life of Musli |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Evangelicals miss the big picture |
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Summary: "A recent MarketCast study co-sponsored by Variety magazine found religious and non-religious people "nearly indistinguishable in their attitudes" about moviegoing, according to a Variety article reporting the results. In fact, these religious folks seem |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
What's Playing at the Local Movie Theater? Church |
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Summary: From the LA Times:
"We'd be lost without the screen," said Beavis, the 43-year-old leader of Destiny People Christian Church, which holds services at the theaters each week. The screen, he said, plays a central spiritual role. "The great thing about it i |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Synod inches towards women bishops |
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Summary: From Times Online:
While most speakers in the two-hour debate supported the idea of women bishops, there were growing concerns about the proposals to care for opponents by consecrating "provincial regional bishops".
This process, known as "transferred e |
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Theophiles |
8:28am PST |
Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative |
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Summary: Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest gl |
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ChristianToday |
8:25am PST |
Salvation Army Offers Gifts That Keep on Giving |
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Summary: The Salvation Army has released a new catelogue of gifts for Valentines Day called Gifts that keep on giving |
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ChristianToday |
8:20am PST |
General Synod Rural Churches Face Discrimination |
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Summary: Members of the Church of England Synod claimed on Tuesday that the rural church faces discrimination |
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ChristianToday |
8:05am PST |
Sentamu Supports New Lent Initiative |
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Summary:
Dr John Sentamu the Archbishop of York is backing a new initiative this Lent which is dedicated to
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ChristianPost |
7:54am PST |
Emergency Food Crisis Affects 2.5 Million in Kenya; Christians Offer Aid |
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Summary: Christian groups are offering aid to help the some 2.5 million Kenyans suffering from a food emergency crisis caused by a severe drought last year.
In October and November last year, a failure of the annual rains has led to a food emergency in northern . |
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ChristianPost |
7:40am PST |
Islamic, Human Rights Groups Say Violent Protests 'Must Stop' |
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Summary: Four more people died in Afghanistan during the violent protests that broke out in reaction to the controversial cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
Heads of nations, human rights organizations and religious groups are calling for an ... |
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ChristianToday |
6:40am PST |
Pope Warns Affluence a Threat to Prolife Values |
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Summary: The Pope has attacked the hedonism of affluent society for weakening the status of Christian prolife values |
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ChristianToday |
6:28am PST |
Christian Solidarity Worldwide To Hold A Day of Prayer for Burma |
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Summary: Christian Solidarity Worldwide will hold a Day of Prayer for Burma |
