Should Christians Adopt Embryos?
Russell D. Moore
Evangelical Christians, it seems, are adopting embryos at an increasing rate, and the secular media are noticing the trend.
How Planned Parenthood Outwitted Komen for the Cure
Austin Ruse, First Things
It is a story of relentlessly unforced errors, also of profound naiveté bordering on at least misdemeanor incompetence. It is also the story of a masterful, even breathtaking, political takedown.
Politics, Expectations and Christian Action
Rob Schwarzwalder, Religion Today
Sometimes, Christian leaders have encouraged the belief that if only we elect enough of the appropriate type of people, America will be re-born and become a place where, like Camelot, “winter happens only by decree.”
Coptic Christians wary of future under Muslim Brotherhood leadership
Arab American News
Many of Egypt’s Coptic Christians met the recent assumption of the presidency by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi with trepidation, even panic – some even made plans to leave the country.
A comment on “politics, expectations and Christian action:”
Granted, Christians should be skeptical of grandiose visions of societal transformation through activism. However — many of the horrific and grandiose transformations toward evil, throughout history, have been effected by highly motivated elite minorities who were able to carry the crowd along with them through deceit and demagoguery . Are we not facing such a precipice today? Does not love of neighbor at least call for resistance to policies which seem hatched in hell?