N.Y. Times condemns Atlanta Fire Chief for book on biblical morality

N.Y. Times condemns Atlanta Fire Chief for book on biblical morality

Apparently, The New York Times is in favor of faith in the public square — if the purpose is to mock it. Editors at the Times poured gasoline on the fire of Atlanta’s latest controversy with an editorial that should shock even their most liberal readers. … In a stunning column yesterday, the newspaper … […]

America going the way of ‘Godless’ Europe, ‘Walking Dead’ tops football

America going the way of ‘Godless’ Europe, ‘Walking Dead’ tops football

Reverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelical preacher Billy Graham, said that America is increasingly embracing a “culture of death” that echoes what has occurred in Europe, and which stems from a “sinful, Godless worldview that rejects Christ.” A further problem in America, he added, is that “Christianity is constantly under siege from the […]

Chicoms busy putting a stop to Christmas and proliferating religious movements

Chicoms busy putting a stop to Christmas and proliferating religious movements

SHANGHAI — China is to publish online details of legal religious venues, the official Xinhua news agency reported, apparently in an effort to identify unsanctioned groups as part of an effort to “root out illegal religious activities”. … [A university in northwestern China banned Christmas, calling it a kitsch foreign celebration unbefitting of the country’s […]

Fear stalks the multiplexes in what once was the season of peace and joy

Fear stalks the multiplexes in what once was the season of peace and joy

As hackers issued new threats of violence on Tuesday, Sony Pictures began telling theater owners who had booked The Interview that they are free to drop the movie, and that the studio will support them whatever decision they make. The situation appears to be very fluid: Neither the National Association of Theatre Owners nor the […]

Transformation: Obama tells mag Constitution requires all states to allow same-sex marriage

Transformation: Obama tells mag Constitution requires all states to allow same-sex marriage

Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker To the extent that there is an Obama legal legacy, it centers on gay rights and voting rights, subjects that the President addresses more with caution than with passion. Obama served as president of the Harvard Law Review (Class of 1991), and taught at the University of Chicago law school for […]

Billy Graham compares America to Sodom and Gomorrah: ‘Just as wicked’

Billy Graham compares America to Sodom and Gomorrah: ‘Just as wicked’

Reverend Billy Graham, arguably the most well-known and respected evangelical preacher of the last 50 years, said in a recently published commentary that America was “founded by men who believed in prayer” and that prayer can turn “the tide of history,” adding that while “America is just as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah” and deserves […]

Supremes yield to public opinion: Institution of marriage no longer sacred

Supremes yield to public opinion: Institution of marriage no longer sacred

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday denied review in all five pending same-sex marriage cases, clearing the way for such marriages to proceed in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. The move was a major surprise and suggests that the justices are not going to intercede in the wave of decisions in favor of […]

Modern young women do not get evil

Modern young women do not get evil

Young women today do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature The disappearance of University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham two weeks ago is the latest in a long series of girls-gone-missing cases that often end tragically. A 32-year-old, 270-pound former football player who fled to Texas has been […]

Evangelicals from the dark side: Terrorism filling a spiritual void?

Evangelicals from the dark side: Terrorism filling a spiritual void?

There is so far no evidence to suggest that Alton Nolen, the man who is accused of beheading a coworker in Moore, Okla., Thursday, has any formal connection with terror groups. Yet there is also little doubt that Mr. Nolen was deeply sympathetic toward extremist Muslim groups, posting rambling Islamist invectives, photos of Osama bin […]

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