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Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…basically, karma. There are some basic lessons we could draw from the high rate of natural disasters lately. Like: There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or: Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. The failure to make difficult choices is, itself, a choice. And what some people do (or don’t do) affects other people; including innocent people like the recent victims of the tornadoes and floods. We are all connected, and we’re all in this toge…

No-News News From Focus on the Family

By Daniel Schultz

…to your marriage. There’s no easy way out.” What if the Christian divorce rate goes from 40 percent to 10 percent or 5 percent, and the world’s goes from 50 percent to 80 percent? Now we’re back to the early centuries. They’re looking at us and thinking, “We want more of what they’ve got,” because we’re proving in front of the eyes of the world that marriage in a Christian context works. I think Daly is signaling a repositioning for Focus—not to…

“Moral Conflict” On Abortion A Result of Anti-Choice Advocacy

By Sarah Posner

…port the availability of local abortion services at a significantly higher rate (68%) than they support the legality of abortion (60%). This of course makes no sense: how can someone think that abortion shouldn’t be legal, but it should be available? The lead survey author, PRRI president Robert P. Jones, struggled to explain this phenomenon. He noted that in focus groups millenials’ “eyes glazed over” when asked detailed questions about policy an…

God’s Chosen Tweeters?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s churches, religious, and other spiritual groups, where internet and smartphone users are 15% more likely to be active than non-users. From photos of your last Habitat for Humanity project, to tweets that you’re powering off for the Sabbath, to prayers for sick friends and uninspired sermon-writers, social networking sites have become the connective membranes of contemporary social and spiritual experience alike. Data from Pew and other research…

Polls Not Reflective of Readiness for Mormon President

By Joanna Brooks

…ndidate who will win is the candidate who can convince this country’s desperately and inexcusably large number of structurally underdemployed and unemployed (including recent college graduates) to get to the voting booths. To do so, he (or she) is going to have to convince them that he or she has answers to the complex and protracted structural economic changes the nation faces now. And that’s a feat that may indeed take an act of God to accomplis…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…an, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and recover from an economic downturn that was driven by a negative and biased media in the first place. And only then, after a national revival and an awakening to self-reliance, will God work his plan to help others—not through our governing institutions, but through our religi…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ing more than $100,000 each year — received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the U.S., compared with the 3.4 percent earned by those below the poverty line, according to newly released census figures. That ratio of 14.5-to-1 was an increase from 13.6 in 2008 and nearly double a low of 7.69 in 1968. And yet we’re told in Leviticus 25:35: “If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them a…

Breivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”

By Sarah Posner

…, their churches are empty, they are people who are not reproducing at any rate to sustain a population. I think the number I heard is every 32 years the population, the European population of Europe will be reduced by 50%. That’s how bad their birthrates are. This is in many respects a dying continent from the standpoint of European-Europeans. And if we lose faith, and we lose the culture war and become a completely secular, materialistic societ…

Forward Christian Europe!

By Ludger Viefhues-Bailey

…nd further distribute both the images and text. Whereas this obsessively curated selection of his motives, background, and planning was clearly addressed to the media, Breivik, who was deeply concerned about keeping control of his public persona after the attack, had more than one audience in mind. To understand how this strategy of communication works, it’s worthwhile to remember the Cold War-era communist terrorist groups. Despite his vehement o…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…women more stupid and less enlightened than men, since they in such great numbers are paving the way for their own submission? He comes up with an equally provocative answer: “When women are paving the way for sharia, this is presumably because women want sharia.” They don’t want freedom because they feel attracted to subservience and subjugation. The English author Fay Weldon has noted that “For women, there is something sexually very alluring a…