Atheist groups are stepping up their attacks this holiday season, with one taking the fight to the Bible Belt using a billboard campaign meant to mock the religious nature of Christmas.The New Jersey-based American Atheists is targeting cities across the South with the anti-Christian message on ...
Less than a month since the release of the latest Billy Graham video sermon, \"Heaven,\" more than 140,000 DVD copies have been distributed--an average of about 4,600 videos each day.
One month ago today, 29-year-old newlywed and brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard legally committed suicide under Oregon\'s Death with Dignity Act. Maynard\'s diagnosis and desire to end her life garnered widespread media attention in the weeks leading up to her November 1, 2014 suicide. Many ...
I\'m writing this to you the afternoon before Thanksgiving. I will be too covered in family to have much time for written reflections on the actual day. I\'m here by myself at my house of so many years. From where I\'m sitting at our big round dinner table (my favorite piece of furniture in my ...
Unlike Christmas and Easter (which commemorate the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus), our annual celebration of Thanksgiving doesn\'t come directly from a specific event in the Bible.But it does come indirectly from the Bible — because every year God\'s people came together to thank God for ...
An abandoned abortion clinic near Toledo may soon become a memorial for unborn aborted children.The former \"Center for Choice\" closed its doors in 2013 after having opened in 1983. Prior to its closing, it served patients from Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.
Oxfam worker Holly Taylor has learned firsthand the tragedy that continues even in life after Ebola. Hazmat-suited workers remove everything from the home of Ebola victims and burn it all before spraying the bare walls and floor with heavy concentrations of germ-killing chlorine. Family members are ...
Even with a recent downward trend in overall numbers, homelessness remains a major problem in America. Many cities have responded not with compassion, but to ban charities from feeding the homeless, or otherwise harass them both in order to beautify parks and streets in the name of safety.Christian ...
More U.S. cities are criminalizing efforts to feed the homeless since the July 2006 Las Vegas City Council\'s ordinance that made it illegal to offer so much as a biscuit to a poor person in a city park. It took seven years to catch on, but at least 21 cities have enacted laws related to the public ...
The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why a Tennessee school teacher gave her child a handout from the Nation of Islam that portrayed the presidents on Mount Rushmore as being racists.