Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.12.09 in Current Events
A number of writers have been drawing comparisons between Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin since both were born 200 years ago today. Here is my favorite so far, taken from the comments section of the Mere Comments weblog (scroll down to the 3rd comment after the article):Two men whose lives had great impact on the lives of millions, even billions…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.10.09 in Current Events, Internet/Blogging, Keep Believing Ministries
*The February edition of the KBM February 2009 newsletter is now online. The headline reads “Keep Believing Goes to the Philippines.” *Did you know that you can know make comments on any of the 800+ sermons in our database? We just added that feature a few weeks ago. *We’ve added two new blogs to our Blogroll—Post-Darwi…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.31.09 in Current Events
Kay Yow, coach of the North Carolina State University women’s basketball team, died last Saturday after a long battle with recurring breast cancer. During her long career as a coach, she won over 700 games, including leading the U.S. women to an Olympic gold medal in the 1988 Summer Games. In 2000 she was inducted into the Women’s Baske…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.17.09 in Current Events, Theology
Yesterday we learned more details about the interfaith National Prayer Service that takes place on Wednesday morning at the National Cathedral in Washington. This particular event marks the end of the inaugural events for President Barack Obama. It seems as if the organizers tried to include everyone. Several evangelicals are taking part, including…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.30.08 in Current Events
A Russian professor named Igor Parnarin has been predicting for a decade that the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. It will happen, he says, because of unrestrained immigration, economic decline and a moral degradation that will fracture the United States and lead to massive unrest leading to a civil war, the collapse of the dollar, and the breaking ap…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.20.08 in Christian News, Current Events, Marriage and the Family, Pastors, Prayer
All in all, I’m glad Barack Obama invited Rick Warren to lead the opening prayer at next month’s presidential inauguration. I say that even though I share some of the reservations raised by other evangelicals. But weighing everything, I’m glad that the president-elect asked him, and I’m glad Rick Warren said yes. Here’…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.21.08 in Current Events
Bob Jones University has just posted a statement about race that contains the following confession:For almost two centuries American Christianity, including BJU in its early stages, was characterized by the segregationist ethos of American culture. Consequently, for far too long, we allowed institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more di…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.14.08 in Current Events, Homosexuality, Theology
Last Sunday a group of radical gay activists disrupted a church service in Lansing, Michigan. One group of protesters demonstrated outside the church while another group actually disrupted the worship service, shouting, throwing fliers, and even pulling the fire alarm so the sanctuary would be evacuated.In California gay-rights activists have picke…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.8.08 in Current Events
No, this isn’t about politics. This is about the unbelievable torrent of anonymous criticism unleashed upon Sarah Palin by certain unnamed sources within the McCain campaign since the election on Tuesday night. Yesterday she fired back in an interview from the governor’s office in Anchorage, she said of the anonymous criticism, “i…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.5.08 in Current Events, Devotional
On one of his speaking tours, Richard Neuhaus was picked up at the airport by a man who kept talking about how bad things were in America and how difficult these times are. Finally Rev. Neuhaus had had enough of the doom and gloom talk. “These may be bad times, but they are only times we are given. And despair is a mortal sin.” He&rsquo…
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