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The Briefing 08-07-13

1. Washington DC legalizes gender change on birth certificate without surgery Making it easier for transgender people to get new birth certificates, Los Angeles Times (Alexei Koseff) 2. Print media in US in trouble as several major publications ...

August 7, 2013

The Briefing 08-06-13

1. The "other shoe" is dropping: Same-sex marriage decisions quickly extending to state courts Judges extend Supreme Court DOMA ruling, Wall Street Journal (Ashby Jones) 2. Government matchmakers: South Korea arranges government dating parties ...

August 6, 2013

The Briefing 08-05-13

1. Embassies shut down in response to al Qaeda threats  France to Shut down Embassy in Yemen, Wall Street Journal U.S. Issues Global Travel Alert Over Al-Qaeda Threat, USA Today (Natalie DiBlasio) 2. Secular world baffled by In-N-Out, Hobby ...

August 5, 2013

What’s Missing from this Picture?—Fertility on the Rise, Worldview on Display

USA Today reported last week that the United States "is taking baby steps forward" in terms of the fertility rate. According to the forecasting group Demographic Intelligence, the USA's total fertility rate is likely to increase to 1.90 per woman in ...

August 5, 2013

The Briefing 08-02-13

1) Ariel Castro: the limitations of human justice and the inadequacy of therapeutic culture Cleveland Kidnapper Claims He's 'Not a Monster' at Hearing, The New York Times (Trip Gabriel and Timothy Williams) Kidnapper Ariel Castro, Who Held Thre ...

August 2, 2013

“I Am Not a Monster”—Ariel Castro as Sinner and Sociopath

"I am not a monster. I am a normal person. I am just sick."  Those were among the words Ariel Castro addressed to an Ohio judge as he faced the bar of justice yesterday. Shortly thereafter, Judge Michael J. Russo of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas C ...

August 2, 2013

The Briefing 08-01-13

1) Evangelicals would do well to learn from the Pope's predicament Who Am I to Judge? The Pope, the Press, and the Predicament, AlbertMohler.com Pope Francis and Gays: “Loving the Sinner” Is Still Intolerance, TIME (Tim Padgett) 2) Celebrati ...

August 1, 2013

Sorry Kids: Back to School = Back to Bedtime

Sorry kids, back to school means back to bedtime. One of the odd characteristics of our time is our apparent need  for scientific verification of what we should know by simple common sense. Well, help now comes in the form of a research project under ...

August 1, 2013

Who Am I to Judge? The Pope, the Press, and the Predicament

Pope Francis pulled a surprise on reporters when he walked back to the press section of his Alitalia papal flight from Brazil and entered into an open press conference that lasted more than an hour. The Pope gave the press what Ronald Reagan and Bill ...

July 30, 2013

Has God Called You? Discerning the Call to Preach

Has God called you to ministry? Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. Writing to young Timothy, the Apostle Paul confirmed that if a man aspires to ...

July 19, 2013

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