Poll: Most Americans believe God involved in creation; 25 percent believe He guided evolution

Poll: Most Americans believe God involved in creation; 25 percent believe He guided evolution

A majority of Americans believe that God played a role in the creation of human beings, while the general belief in evolution has increased, a new poll finds. Sixty-two percent of 1,000 adults polled in a YouGov survey taken July 8-9 believe that God was involved in the creation of humans. Thirty-seven percent say they […]

U.S. Christianity and the ‘weaponization’ of pornography and abortion

U.S. Christianity and the ‘weaponization’ of pornography and abortion

This year, Russell Moore took over as head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission — the huge Protestant denomination’s highest-profile post, particularly on matters of politics and policy. Following are excerpts from an interview: I don’t think that sort of American dream plus Jesus represented biblical Christianity at all and in […]

The good, the bad and the … well that pretty much sums it up

The good, the bad and the … well that pretty much sums it up

Great literature and theater rivets its audience with the universal dynamic no longer recognized as such in polite society: the murderous war between Good and Evil. Consider Lyme Disease. Modern medicine, after all, will not. Nor will health insurance programs recognize its devilish spirochetes. Stephen Buhner, author of the groundbreaking 2005 book “Healing Lyme: Natural […]

Osteen: Don’t beat up yourself … ‘you’re criticizing God’s own creation’

Osteen: Don’t beat up yourself … ‘you’re criticizing God’s own creation’

MIAMI, Florida – Joel Osteen preached a message of hope and encouragement to the sold-out crowd of 37,000 who packed Miami’s Marlins Park Saturday night to experience the fifth annual “America’s Night of Hope” event that the megachurch pastor hosts to cast a wide net and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to new believers. […]

Easter Sunday, 2013: God sent his only begotten son so that Catholic students can hook up without judgment or joy

Easter Sunday, 2013: God sent his only begotten son so that Catholic students can hook up without judgment or joy

The Washington Post, in its Easter Sunday edition, raises a question at odds with its editorial policy: ”Time to stop hooking up? Why students are tired of casual sex’. This is the same “Washington Compost” that crusades daily in its Style section for all forms of casual sex outside the boundaries of the Judeo Christian […]

Challenger in Venezuela sees ‘struggle to break down a wall of evil’

Challenger in Venezuela sees ‘struggle to break down a wall of evil’

Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles raised the rhetorical stakes Sunday, casting his campaign against interim president Nicolas Maduro as a spiritual struggle of good versus evil. Mr Capriles, 40, is running against Mr Maduro to succeed the late leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez in April 14 elections. “I feel that this fight… has become a spiritual […]

‘Weird things happened’ on ‘The Bible’ set

‘Weird things happened’ on ‘The Bible’ set

Last Sunday, the first installment of History’s five-part miniseries The Bible beat everything on television with a massive 13.1 million viewers, making it cable’s most-watched entertainment telecast this year.   For producer Mark Burnett, who worked on the ten-hour special with wife Roma Downey, the success of The Bible isn’t all that surprising. “It will […]

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