The Dangers of Online Escapism

March 18th, 2010 by Mark Earley

The irony could not possibly be crueler. A South Korean couple let their 3-month-old baby starve to death at home while they spent all their time at Internet cafes—raising a virtual child.

The British Telegraph reports, “Leaving their real daughter…

 

Genetically Modified Famine

March 17th, 2010 by Charles Colson

By 2050, the world’s population, which is currently about 6.8 billion, is projected to peak at about 9 billion. That’s an additional 2.2 billion people to feed, clothe, and house.

Assuming no change in food consumption patterns, food production will…

 

Credit Where It’s Due

March 16th, 2010 by Charles Colson

In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof credits evangelicals with pushing for AIDS and malaria programs and for “doing superb work on issues from human trafficking in India to mass rape in Congo.”

This is in contrast, he…

 

Do You Know Jack?

March 13th, 2010 by Charles Colson

According to an upcoming HBO movie, “You Don’t Know Jack,” folks. The “Jack” in this case is Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a., “Dr. Death.” The title also means “you don’t know anything.”

Actually, we know quite a bit about assisted suicide—it’s…

 

Student Loans and Uncle Sam

March 12th, 2010 by Charles Colson

Will the Democratic Congress use “reconciliation” to shove their version of health care reform down the throats of an unwilling electorate? That’s the issue grabbing all the headlines these days.

But a recent Wall Street Journal editorial points out that…

 

The Countersign

March 11th, 2010 by Mark Earley

What if your daily job were to work among the very poorest people in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? What if that job involved taking food to people in its “most ferocious slums”? Or routinely collecting bloated corpses…

 

Gay Marriage v. Religious Freedom

March 9th, 2010 by Charles Colson

Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., has announced changes to its employees’ health care benefits. Normally, this wouldn’t be big news. But this story isn’t only about deductibles and co-pays—it’s about the increasingly fragile state of religious freedom in the America.…

 

Combating the Coarsening of Culture

March 5th, 2010 by Charles Colson

Cord Ivanyi, a Latin teacher at a Phoenix high school, was tired seeing the boys in his class subject the girls to vulgar words and behavior. The behavior was disrespectful, and disrupting to his classes. So Ivanyi decided to give…

 

Avatar and Salvation from Beyond

March 4th, 2010 by Charles Colson

This year’s Oscar race is being billed as duel between ex-spouses—Kathryn Bigelow, the director of the critically acclaimed war film about Iraq called The Hurt Locker, and her ex-husband, James Cameron, director of the phenomenally lucrative 3D blockbuster, Avatar.

But…

 

Orchestrated Anti-Semitism

March 3rd, 2010 by Charles Colson

Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, was invited to speak at the University of California at Irvine. Oren’s talk was interrupted at least 12 times by students who shouted insults. “How many Palestinians did you kill?” one of them…

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