Archive for the '-Families' Category
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
( Getty Images via @daylife) Texas Gov. Rick Perry took time out from his busy presidential campaign in South Carolina to attend a prayer event. While there, without any fanfare or introduction he took the stage at the large prayer gathering called "The Response" in Greenville, S.C. and prayed for President Obama and his [...]
Filed under: -Prayer, Barack Obama, Christian living
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) Today (Tuesday 1/17) the US Supreme Court declined to hear a case coming from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Appeals Court had ruled in a 2-1 panel decision last October in Joyner v. Forsyth County (North Carolina) that public legislative meetings could not begin with prayers in the “name [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Prayer, Court Decisions, SCOTUS, USA
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Thursday, July 21st, 2011
(Ron Luce-Teen Mania) A few years ago the expression -’Friends With Benefits’ became popular among 20 to 30 year old singles and beyond. A term which is supposed to represent casual sex among friends without any strings attached. The popular culture latched upon this term and it reflects a new norm among career oriented young [...]
Filed under: -Families, -Morality, Christian living, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, USA
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
Here’s a great article by Craig Groeschel who is the founder and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv an online ministry: My Take: Wired pastor says unplug Pastor Craig who is all about technology made a decision along with his wife Amy to ‘unplug’ their family 4 days a week. Here’s why: “One day when I came [...]
Filed under: -Families, Christian living, Internet
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Jewish Talmud is a best seller in South Korea. Not only that, it is also required reading in Korean public schools and most Koreans have The Talmud prominently displayed in their homes. At the same time there are no Synagogues and it is extremely difficult to practice Judaism in S. Korea which has a [...]
Filed under: -Education, -Families, Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Judaism, Korea
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Today (Sunday) in Croatia – Pope Benedict XVI denounced the “disintegration” of family life in Europe and called for couples to make a commitment to officially marry and have children. The Pope reaffirmed traditional Catholic family values and also voiced the church’s continued opposition to abortion before a crowd of nearly 300,000 in Zagreb’s hippodrome. [...]
Filed under: -Families, -Traditional Marriage, Christian living, Europe, Pope Benedict
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) New research shows that Marriage plays a major role in the well-being of the American economy. The Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute released new findings that indicate stable married-couples economically outperform other family types, including: remarried families, divorced families, single-parent families, and cohabiting families. Basically the stats show [...]
Filed under: -Families, -Marriage, Economy
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