Churches for Life 2010 highlights

2010 Ministry Highlights Doug Merkey says, "Let’s celebrate that the eternal God of life became a zygote(single-cell, day 1), then a morula (16 cells, day 3), then a blastocyst. At 4 weeks inside Mary, God looked like a tadpole. At 6 weeks, He had eyes plus slits for a mouth and nose. At 10 weeks He had basic brain function, arms and legs, and could feel pain. At 13 weeks, He would have had a 25% chance of being aborted in America. Let’s celebrate that Jesus survived His “crisis pregnancy” and was born to save sinners like us!

"Let’s celebrate that God is using Churches for Life to equip gospel-driven champions of life who can defend people like He was when He was inside His mom, and many others in peril: the elderly, infirm, orphans, newborns, moms in crisis pregnancies, and more."

Pitchfork politics: the feds are targeting conscientious doctors

Pitchfork politics: the feds are targeting conscientious doctors | LifeSiteNews.com: Why should you care about the conscience rights of doctors? Because whether doctors have conscience rights may determine whether you have a doctor.

Index of belonging and rejection

Family Research Council: The Index of Belonging (45%) and Rejection (55%) gives an instant read on the social health of America by measuring the proportion of American children who have grown up in an intact married family. We have undertaken this study because, bad though it may be, the out-of-wedlock birth rate is not the key measure of family intactness. Rather what gives a much better read of how our American families are faring is what proportion of our children grow up in an intact home.

Faces of the Christian Right

Faces of the Christian Right - Newsweek: Who speaks for the religious right? That used to be an easy question to answer: on matters of faith and politics, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson were towering figures: opinionated, controversial, and vastly influential. But with Falwell’s death in 2007, Robertson’s outlandish comments about the 2010 earthquake in China and Hurricane Katrina, and Dobson’s gradual retirement, it’s harder to pinpoint a similar council for the second generation of the movement, which is more strategically, denominationally, and ideologically diverse.

Editor: Who are these people? I only recognized one or two, and one of them is more 'Christian left.'

Adult Stem Cell Research Cures HIV-Positive Man

Doctors Say Adult Stem Cell Research Cures HIV-Positive Man | LifeNews.com: In 2008, German doctors reported they had used a selective adult stem cell transplant to treat a leukemia patient. The treatment had a side effect — that the transplant also removed his HIV infection. After the transplant, the virus was undetectable in his bloodstream for at least two years and he no longer took antiretroviral drugs. Now they are claiming the results provide evidence for a “cure” for HIV infection using the selective adult stem cell transplant.

Nice evil

Nice evil | LifeSiteNews.com: Is it possible that the belief that children may legally be killed by their mothers, is a definitive component of moral monsterhood? I realize it is an unpleasant thought that the great majority of our fellow-citizens hold moral opinions that are profoundly evil, but how can we, in these deadly times, dare to shy away from unpleasant possibilities?

New Reprogramming Method not pro-life

New Reprogramming Method not pro-life: "Children of God for Life Executive Director, Debi Vinnedge is sounding the alarm once more on recent experiments turning adult skin cells into “embryonic-like” cells.

Dr Derick Rossi of Harvard Stem Cell Institute conducted several experiments, published recently in Cell Stem Cell. His work using messenger RNA (mRNA) to reprogram adult cells to become pluripotent was touted as a moral alternative to human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. “There are many reasons why this is no panacea for pro-lifers,” Vinnedge stated. “But one has to read their study to find the truth.”

Planned Parenthood's real agenda

Right to Life of Michigan: For many, Planned Parenthood is a trusted name in affordable reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) would like to keep that standing in the hundreds of communities where a center is operated. PPFA would also like to remain the largest abortion provider in the United States. To reach both goals, PPFA must hide the truth behind their public image and provide misleading information to women who are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy.

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom

Amazon.com: The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom (9781581824599): David Kupelian: Books: Most of us mistakenly believe the 'abortion rights' and 'gay rights' movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. Few realize America was actually 'sold' on abortion thanks to an audacious public relations campaign that relied on fantastic lies and fabrications. Or that the 'gay rights' movement faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers. From the federal government to the public school system to the news media to the hidden creators of 'youth culture,' nothing is exempt from the thousand-watt spotlight of David Kupelian's journalistic inquiry. In the end, The Marketing of Evil is an up-close, modern-day look at what is traditionally known as 'tempation'—the art and science of making evil look good.

The violent streak in Christianity?

Strengthened by Grace Yes, there is a mean, violent streak in the true Christian life! But violence against whom, or what? Not other people!

• It’s a violence against all the impulses in us that would be violent to other people.
• It’s a violence against all the impulses in our own selves that would make peace with our own sin and settle in with a peacetime mentality.
• It’s a violence against all lust in ourselves and all enslaving desires.

The retreat from marriage — a recipe for disaster

The retreat from marriage — a recipe for disaster | LifeSiteNews.com: Albert Mohler: "Economists report that the wealth deficit of the unmarried as compared to the consistently married is as much as 75 percent. The unmarried are less healthy, less wealthy, and less stable in relationships as compared to married couples. And, to no one’s surprise, the ill effects of this condition are extended immediately to the children of unmarried unions and to generations to come. It's hard to imagine a plot to bring harm and unhappiness to human lives that can compare, in social and economic terms, to the marginalization of marriage."

Economist admits low fertility is killing Japanese economy

Economist magazine admits low fertility is killing Japanese economy | LifeSiteNews.com: In a special section devoted to Japan appearing in the November 20-27 edition, the Economist laments that “Japan is heading into a demographic vortex. It is the fastest-aging society on Earth and the first big country in history to have started shrinking rapidly from natural causes.”

Human cloning an ‘imminent threat’: scientist

Human cloning an ‘imminent threat’: scientist | LifeSiteNews.com: Dr. Theresa Deisher, a molecular and cellular physiologist and an internationally recognized expert in regenerative medicine, explored the negative consequences of pluripotent stem cell technology in a speech in Washington, DC recently as she discussed a slippery slope towards objectifying human beings in modern biotechnology. “Ultimately where we’re really going is reproductive cloning."

Abortion and the occult: a glimpse inside life at a death mill

Abortion and the occult: a glimpse inside life at a death mill | LifeSiteNews.com: According to Abigail Seidman, her mother’s descent into the abortion culture was not motivated by the usual social talking points - to save women from dangerous back-alley abortions, or to “help” women in difficult situations - or even for the money. It was a religion – literally.

Seidman described the abortion clinic where her mother worked as a nurse as “pervaded with occult imagery and practices.” The workers considered “abortion to be a form of sacrifice,” would perform the procedure as a sort of ritual, and worshipped deities embodying death, she said.

Interview transcript - read with caution.

Judge gets it half right in striking down health care law

Family Research Council: A federal judge in Virginia struck down parts of the newly enacted health care law that includes taxpayer funding of abortion.

From Genesis to the Gospel

From Genesis to the Gospel - Answers in Genesis: When the Lord was walking in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve sinned, He came to seek those who had been lost. This loving act is one of God’s characteristics that shows that when man sinned, He still loved us and had a plan in place for salvation. When Christ stepped into history, it was to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10).

Women of the Bible: Puah and Shiprah

Puah and Shiprah are Egyptian names. Aben Ezra, the ancient Jewish historian, says that these two women 'were chiefs over all the midwives, who were more than 500.' As superintendents of such a large staff to which they had been appointed by the Egyptian government, Pharaoh ordered them to carry out his terrible command just as he would give orders to any other of his officials. As it is likely that only the chief Hebrews could afford the service of midwives, probably the order of Pharaoh only applied to them. Although Egyptians by birth, it would seem as if they had embraced the Hebrew faith, for we are told that Puah and Shiprah 'feared God' ( Exodus 1:21).

Receiving the royal command to commit murder, these two loyal, vigorous, middleaged women were caught between two fires. Whom should they obey? The God of the Hebrews in whom they had come to believe, or the tyrannical king of Egypt? True to their conscience and honored calling they knew it would conflict with the divine command to kill, and so 'saved the men children alive.' Thus, they obeyed God rather than man, and in so doing brought upon their heads the rage of Pharaoh. Bible Gateway

How dare you as a man…

How dare you as a man… | LifeSiteNews.com: There's a popular pro-choice cartoon showing some old men in judges’ robes, obviously pregnant. One of them says to another “maybe we should rethink our position on abortion.” People who argue this way assume what is plainly not the case, that all women take a pro-choice position on abortion. But even apart from this fact, there are many reasons why men as well as women need to confront the moral issue of abortion.

Editor: Truth is truth. It's not dependent on who's saying it.

Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers

Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers - Telegraph: A senior family court judge allowed a British couple to keep a newborn child even though they had technically broken the law by giving more than “reasonable expenses” to the American natural mother.

Related: "They are just wombs"

Life on other planets

News to Note, December 11, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: If the emergence of life is the consequence of essentially random processes (a planet in the “just right” zone of a star, chemicals organizing in just the right way on the backs of crystals or in clay bubbles), and if we discover a seemingly infinite number of worlds with all manner of variation, it’s almost a statistically impossibility that earth could be the only home of intelligent life. It’s a sort of astrobiological corollary of the Copernican principle—that, whatever the evidence may be, the earth and its life just can’t be unique. Thus, evolutionists are painted into a corner because the philosophical consequences of finding no life beyond earth would serve a death-blow to their worldview.

Brazilians overwhelmingly reject pro-abort agenda of ruling party

Brazilians overwhelmingly reject pro-abort, homosexualist agenda of ruling party | LifeSiteNews.com: The poll by Vox Populi revealed that 82% of Brazilians wish to maintain abortion as a crime, and 72% are against its depenalization. Religious differences only changed the latter result marginally, with 75% of Evangelicals, 73% of Catholics, and 69% of other religions opposing depenalization.

A mom raves about a children's Bible

Every Story Whispers His Name — We are THAT Family: Blogger reviews The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name -- "Every story, from Adam and Eve to Saul, from Noah to the prodigal son, whispers the name of Jesus. The author follows The Author’s lead and every story points back or ties in the work of Jesus Christ. I have learned so much and it’s opened the Word of God up to me."

Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of KJV

Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of King James Bible | News | The Christian Institute: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible by hosting a cover-to-cover reading of the text next year. The readings, estimated to take 69 hours, will happen between Palm Sunday and Easter Monday.

The production at the Globe is part of a season entitled “The Word is God” and the Theatre says it will interrupt the readings with performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole commented: “We are celebrating the word, and man’s capacity to make a god of language, and out of language. If people want to take a bit of God, of whatever religion they might be, they are welcome to do so.”

US researchers breed mice from two males

US researchers breed mice from two males - stem cells, reproduction, mice, iPS cells, Biotechnology - Australian Life Scientist: It’s been something of a holy grail amongst reproductive scientists for some time; the breeding of animals with same sex parents. However, reports today by U.S researchers of the successful breeding of mice from two fathers have been met with caution by Australian scientists and legal experts.

“Whilst the findings in this paper are intriguing, whether such an approach could ever be applied to human reproduction is highly unlikely,” said Dr Megan Munsie, Senior Manager, Research and Government, Australian Stem Cell Centre. “The mice were not born simply from two fathers. Rather they were created by a complex process dependent on access to foetal tissue, the creation of stem cells, additional embryos, surrogate mothers and natural mating.”

Round 3 of the personhood debate

Operation Rescue has posted part three of a four part debate of the tactic of Personhood Amendments. Statements in favor of the Personhood Amendment strategy were written by Keith Ashley of Personhood Kansas.  Statements opposing the Personhood Amendment strategy were penned by Steven Ertelt, Founder and Editor of Lifenews.com.

Today, OR posted replies to rebuttals written by Mr. Ashley and Mr. Ertelt to each other's opening statements. Closing arguments for each side are tentatively scheduled to post on December 15, 2010.

Senate shoots down ‘don’t ask,’ military abortion ban repeal

Senate shoots down ‘don’t ask,’ military abortion ban repeal | LifeSiteNews.com: U.S. Senate Democrats failed in their bid to bring a defense authorization bill to the Senate floor that included repeal of the military’s ban on homosexuals and the ban on abortion at military bases on Thursday.

Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout

Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout | LifeNews.com: While the subject of cloning has not been in the news lately, people should realize that there are some scientists who still want human clones, and politicians pushing for approval of human cloning for experiments.

Polygamy debate evokes familiar 'rights' argument

MARRIAGE AND THE LAW / Polygamy debate evokes familiar 'rights' argument: I get that polygamy and same-sex marriage are completely different institutions. But their advocates rely on the same arguments, even if same-sex marriage advocates take umbrage. It's funny how quickly the switch can flip. Now civil-liberties types are wondering if maybe polygamy should be legal.

The State of Our Unions, 2010

The State of Our Unions 2010: The State of Our Unions monitors the current health of marriage and family life in America. Produced annually, it is a joint publication of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.

Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class

Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class : NPR: The path to adulthood used to be clear — love, marriage, baby carriage — and no one embodied that more than America's working class. But today, for those with only a high school education, that order no longer holds.

Why pay for more population control?

WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Why pay for more population control?: The late British writer Malcolm Muggeridge once puckishly observed: “There’s a bright lining to this terrible abortion cloud. In a hundred years, there will be no Sweden.” He didn’t really mean it, of course, but Sweden is just one of the Western European countries facing a population crisis—not too many people, but too few.

Side Effects: What Doctors Have to Say About Obamacare

Side Effects: What Doctors Have to Say About Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: The Physicians Foundation found that “rather than a sign of progress, the survey suggests that most physicians view health reform as a further erosion of the unfavorable conditions with which they must contend.” Furthermore, Obamacare “has further disengaged doctors from their profession, with potentially negative consequences for both the medical profession and for the quality and accessibility of medical care in the United States.”

Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace”

Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace” « Public Discourse: Richard Stith, a pro-life law professor at Valparaiso University, is urging his fellow pro-lifers to stay off the “repeal and replace” bandwagon. In an article for First Things online, he has suggested that a more promising approach for pro-lifers is amending the new law with clear pro-life language.

What Evangelism is Not | LifeWay

What Evangelism is Not | LifeWay: The Great Commission Resurgence proposals within the Southern Baptist Convention have reminded us of the high priority of evangelism and local/global missions. The same is true of many denominations across the theological spectrum of beliefs as Christian leaders worldwide seek to regain strongholds of spiritual influence in North America and Europe. However, unless we're cautious and clear, a sloppy, imprecise definition of missions and evangelism will destroy renewal efforts. Let's define evangelism by what it is not and then by what it is.

Poverty: Where We All Started

Another cartoon video from Population Research Institute.

Major religious leaders release statement supporting true marriage

Major religious leaders release statement supporting true marriage | LifeSiteNews.com: Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have come together to express their commitment toward the protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In an open letter released yesterday, entitled “The Protection of Marriage: A Shared Commitment,” leaders from Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Lutheran, Mormon, Orthodox, Pentecostal and Sikh communities in the United States affirmed the importance of preserving marriage’s unique meaning.

Young Families Delay Marriage, Not Parenthood

Young Families Delay Marriage, Not Parenthood : NPR: A provocative new report finds Middle America, the 58 percent of adults who finished high school but have no four-year college degree, losing faith in marriage, while more educated Americans embrace it. In a striking reversal, working-glass Americans are now more likely than those with college degrees to have children outside of marriage. They're postponing marriage in many cases, and their divorce rates are up. At least part of the reason appears to be economic.

This day in history: Newton urged Wilberforce to stay an MP

William Wilberforce was in turmoil over what he should do: give up his political career and all that went with it and be shunned by his contemporaries? Or stay in politics and face the disapproval of his new Christian friends? On December 7, 225 years ago, he sought the advice of John Newton, who wisely encouraged the young Wilberforce to stay in politics and serve God there, with all the abilities and influences that he clearly had. Newton later wrote: “It is hoped and believed that the Lord has raised you up for the good of His church and for the good of the nation.”

He also wrote of Wilberforce to his good friend and fellow hymnwriter William Cowper: “I hope the Lord will make him a blessing both as a Christian and as a statesman. How seldom do these characters coincide! But they are not incompatible.” William Wilberforce went on to show how true that last statement was, as he spent the remainder of his life seeking to transform society through distinctively Christian political involvement. Christian Institute

Navigating Past Nihilism - NYTimes.com

Navigating Past Nihilism - NYTimes.com: Whatever role religion plays in our society today, it is not this one. For today’s religious believers feel strong social pressure to admit that someone who doesn’t share their religious belief might nevertheless be living a life worthy of their admiration. That is not to say that every religious believer accepts this constraint. But to the extent that they do not, then society now rightly condemns them as dangerous religious fanatics rather than sanctioning them as scions of the Church or mosque. God is dead, therefore, in a very particular sense. He no longer plays his traditional social role of organizing us around a commitment to a single right way to live. Nihilism is one state a culture may reach when it no longer has a unique and agreed upon social ground.

US legal row 'Scotland's chance to lead the world in stem cell race'

US legal row 'Scotland's chance to lead the world in stem cell race'

Legal wrangles in the United States over stem cell technology are creating an opportunity for Scotland to become a world leader in the sector, according to experts. Firms in America are now looking to develop their stem cell treatments abroad because the US government won't fund the research, which has proved controversial in some parts of the world.

Key oral arguments made in stem cell case

The Great Beyond: Key oral arguments made in stem cell case: The attempt by two adult stem cell researchers to quash US funding for human embryonic stem cell research reached a critical juncture this morning, as a high-profile appeals court heard key oral arguments in the case.

Arguing before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Thomas Hungar argued that “it is undisputed in this case that human embryonic stem cell research always entails the destruction of embryos.” As such, he said, it breaks the law at the center of the case: the Dickey Wicker amendment, which bars federal funding for research in which human embryos are destroyed.

Evolution and Logical Fallacies - Audio Download

Evolution and Logical Fallacies - Audio Download - Answers Bookstore: In this informative presentation, recorded recently at Creation College 3, Dr. Lisle gives listeners a fastpaced course on logic. In addition to reviewing numerous logical fallacies, Dr. Lisle gives examples of how evolutionists often use fallacious arguments in arguing for their position. Learning to recognize these fallacies provides a whole new opportunity for defending the faith and arguing for the truth of creation.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Alternatives Still Present Moral issues

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Alternatives Still Present Moral issues | LifeNews.com: With the new mRNA method for producing iPS cells the prospects for iPS cell research are better than ever. In this respect, opponents of ESCR should welcome the news. They should be aware, however, that it is no moral panacea.

To begin with, demand for embryonic stem cells will continue in the near future. Researchers need to compare the iPS cells to ES cells, which means destroying embryos. In the long run, fewer embryos may be destroyed in stem-cell research as research shifts to iPS cells; but this transition may take years.

The moral complications of the new state of the art go even deeper, due to an advance that scientists anticipate within a decade: using iPS cells to create human sperm and egg cells. Scientists will be able to create an entire embryo using ordinary skin cells or other adult cells, without ever using gametes harvested from a person. This method, which we might call gameteless reproduction, makes in vitro fertilization look like child’s play and gives us more control than ever over human reproduction.

Peter Singer: Full Moral Status Not Earned by Babies “Until After 2 Years”

Peter Singer Says Full Moral Status Not Earned by Babies “Until After 2 Years” » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: The bioethicist was asked at what point he thought an infant would be considered a person. He replied, "My understanding is that it is not until after the first birthday, so somewhere between the first and second, I think, that they typically recognize the image in the mirror as themselves…Really, I think this is a gradual matter."

Persons not property: An African-American pastor tackles abortion

Persons not property: An African-American pastor tackles abortion | LifeSiteNews.com: The “unconditional love” for the pre-born child in my heart, is rooted in the love Christ has for all. While the current conditions may have “temporarily defeated” the personhood of the pre-born child, I believe the “righteousness of personhood” is stronger than the “evil of pre-natal murder” and will ultimately prove triumphant. I believe personhood is the final word in reality of the pro-life movement.

A solution to the Tea Party/Pro-Life dispute over social issues

A solution to the Tea Party/Pro-Life dispute over social issues | LifeSiteNews.com: The fiscal conservative Tea Partiers and the pro-life voters were both crucial in the GOP’s November electoral victories. The game of “whose mandate is it anyway?” is just an opportunity for needless bloodletting. Both sides should realize there is a very easy way to find common ground, come together, and get down to the business of helping American taxpayers – those born and unborn.

What’s the solution? Get abortion and social issues off the national table by overturning Roe v. Wade – congressional style! If members of the Tea Party movement do not want to see the Congress “run down any social issue rabbit holes,” then let’s finally defuse the issue on a national level by enacting the Sanctity of Life Act.

Fertilised eggs get microscopic bar codes

Short Sharp Science: Fertilised eggs get microscopic bar codes: Researchers have come up with an ingenious solution for keeping track of embryos and egg cells during in vitro fertilisation procedures: microscopic bar codes. Mouse eggs were tagged by injecting microscopic silicon bar codes into their perivitelline space, the gap between the cell membrane and an outer membrane called the zona pellucida, which binds sperm cells during fertilisation. The bar codes, which carry unique binary identification numbers, are biologically inert: they do not affect the rate of embryo development and are shed before the embryos implant into the wall of the uterus. The technique aims to simplify individual embryo identification, streamlining in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer procedures.

Warren Buffet says tax the rich, but sterilize the poor | LifeSiteNews.com

Warren Buffet says tax the rich, but sterilize the poor | LifeSiteNews.com: Warren Buffet, one of the world’s wealthiest men, is in the news for saying that he wants the rich to pay more in taxes. But according to the Population Research Institute, Buffet prefers to spend his money ensuring that the poor have as few children as possible. Over the years, the Buffet Foundation has funded some of the most hard-edged, even fanatical, population control programs around.

Ted Turner calls for global one-child policy like China's

The population control advocate said that under this scheme the world’s poor could sell their fertility rights and thereby profit from avoiding procreation. LifeSiteNews

Teens say, teach us more about family values

Teach us more about family values, say teenagers | News | The Christian Institute: Young people want to learn about responsible parenting rather than sexual mechanics in sex education, a recent survey has revealed. And around three quarters of teenagers interviewed said that a relationship does not need to involve sex. The survey, conducted among over 2,000 13 to 16-year-olds from a range of schools and backgrounds, has surprised experts in the field.

Debunking the Lie: "We Need to Reduce the Need for Abortion"

Debunking the Lie: We Need to Reduce the Need for Abortion | LifeNews.com: Our goal isn’t merely just to reduce child killing; it is to END child killing. . . . I am sickened by the fact that this twisted language has even made it into Christian circles. I have heard Christians use this statement and I want to explode every time I hear it.

There is NO need for abortion! There never has been and there never will be. Would anyone make the statement “reduce the need for slicing babies into pieces”? The fact is that the word abortion itself is just a sanitized way of saying, “kill a baby.”

Noah's Flood and the Earth's Age

Noah's Flood and the Earth's Age - Audio Download - Answers Bookstore: This presentation reveals the failed attempts of evolutionists to account for millions of years of earth history and points to the true biblical age of the earth.

Marriage is hard, but worth it

Then Again ... by Marybeth Hicks: Marriage is hard. That's what I told the guy sitting next to me on the plane Tuesday when he explained that he and his bride of less than a year have split up, despite the birth several weeks ago of their son. That's what I told a girlfriend in an e-mail, and another over lunch recently when she shared her fear that she and her husband might not make it through a rocky patch. That's what I tell myself on any given day, and what I remind my husband when we try each other's patience.

The people who were trying to make this world worse… are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.”

The people, who were trying to make this world worse… are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.” – A New Commentary by Bryan Kemper « Social Justice Begins in the Womb – Daily Pro-life Updates from the BK Lounge: Darkness is not the opposite of light, it is the absence thereof. Darkness cannot exist where there is light. Darkness cannot overcome light unless the light retreats. The Light will always defeat the darkness; God will always defeat evil. We must carry the Light of God. Christ, into battle and never retreat.

Retreat and doubt are crippling the church, as we seem to want to hide the Light in fear of offending the darkness. I hear so many people who claim to be followers of the Light, too ashamed to shine that light fully because we might just offend the darkness; we would not want anyone to be turned off by how bright our Light is.

This is a cop-out, a lie straight from the pit of hell. Of course the darkness will be offended by the Light: the Light destroys, exposes, makes vulnerable the darkness and is painful to those who remain in that darkness.

ACOG Again Denies Conscience Rights of Doctors

ACOG Again Denies Conscience Rights of Doctors on Abortion | LifeNews.com: This month the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) reviewed and reaffirmed the 2007 Ethics Committee Number 385, entitled The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine. And last week a pro-life nurse was denied the right to sue the hospital where she was forced to participate in abortion. There has never been a greater need to pass comprehensive conscience protection measures than now.

Lilith: the barren child-killing mascot of the abortion movement

Lilith: the barren, sex-crazed, child-killing mascot of the abortion movement | LifeSiteNews.com: According to legend, Lilith was the first woman created by God, as Adam’s wife and equal. After she refused to be subservient or submissive and so flew away from Eden, God punished her by dictating that one hundred of her own demon children would be killed each day. She responds by asserting her perpetual desire to sicken and kill newborn infants. The abortion industry’s poster girl if ever there was one.

It’s time to rebuild the Democratic pro-life presence, from the grassroots up

It’s time to rebuild the Democratic pro-life presence, from the grassroots up | LifeSiteNews.com: Planned Parenthood and company is waiting for the Affordable Care Act’s abortion money bomb to go off with the stroke of a pen cancelling Stupak’s executive order. The pro-life movement can give itself some more insurance if they can prevent Obama (and Pelosi) from saying of the next Democratic Congress, “there is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat.”