Religious Influence in DeclineAccording to a 2009 Gallup survey, two-thirds of Americans think religion is losing its influence on U.S. life. 67 percent of Americans think religious influence is waning, while just 27 percent say it is increasing. That perspective demonstrates a continuing downward trend, Gallup said. But the 27 percent figure is still higher than the record low, set in a 1970 poll, when just 14 percent of Americans thought religion was increasing in influence. STDs on the RiseRates of chlamydia are at a record high, and rates of syphilis rose for the seventh consecutive year, according to the […]

John Beckett discusses how Christian values play an important role in the workplace. “There really is a relationship between sowing and reaping,” said John Beckett, author and chairman of the R.W. Beckett Corporation, to students at The King’s College in New York on Oct. 14, 2009.  His visit was a part of the college’s Distinguished Visitors Series.  Beckett told students how his Christian faith was an essential ingredient in building and maintaining his business. Beckett said providential “turning points” led him to become the president of the R.W. Beckett Corporation at age 26 while he “was still an unproven leader.”  […]

In a television interview broadcast Dec. 8, President Bush said he doesn’t know if God wanted him to be president, doubts the Bible is literally true, agrees you can believe in God and evolution simultaneously and believes Christians and those of other faiths pray to the same God. In the segment for ABC’s “Nightline,” Bush said he is “not so presumptuous as to be God” in knowing whether God picked him out of all the people in the world to be president. “I just can’t go there,” he said. “I’m not that confident in knowing the Almighty to be able […]

Most Americans, including far too many government officials, have no idea that children under the age of 18 are being shipped from state to state as child prostitutes, according to a report from an anti-sex trafficking organization. In fact, an estimated 100,000 American children under 18 years of age are victimized through prostitution every year and children rented for sex acts might be raped 6,000 times over the course of five years. In addition, the United States should be – but is not – listed on the “Tier 2” watch list in the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report. Those […]

An Ohio woman gave birth to a baby boy she carried to term after learning a fertility clinic had mistakenly implanted her with another couple’s embryo. Carolyn Savage, 40, of Sylvania, Ohio, delivered a 5-pound, 3-ounce boy at a Toledo hospital after choosing not to abort him though she learned he was not her son 10 days after embryo implantation. The boy’s genetic parents are Paul and Shannon Morell of Troy, Mich., who learned a day after Savage and her husband Sean about the embryo mix-up by an undisclosed clinic. They were concerned their unborn child would be aborted after […]

Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea recently for combating global warming: Give carbon credits to couples that limit themselves to having one child. Revkin later told CNSNews.com that he was not endorsing the idea, just trying to provoke some thinking on the topic. Revkin participated via Web camera in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on “Covering Climate: What’s population got to do with it?” that was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. The other participants on the panel were Dennis Dimick, executive editor of National Geographic, and Emily […]

Three men were discussing how to determine how much money to give to the Lord. This first man drew a circle on the ground, took all the money out of his pocket and threw it in the air; whatever landed inside the circle was the Lord’s and the rest he spent. The second man disagreed; he said the proper way to determine how much was the Lord’s was how much fell outside the circle. The third man, being more “spiritually mature,” threw his money in the air, and, when it landed, he said that whatever God wanted, He kept. Therefore, […]

It’s officially known as “Southern Decadence” and informally as “Gay Mardi Gras” in New Orleans’ French Quarter. It’s difficult to ignore, drawing tens of thousands of people in a homosexual or lesbian lifestyle and pumping millions of dollars into the city’s economy. At Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, 100 local pastors and church members gathered just days before the Labor Day weekend festival to broach a subject some felt has been too long ignored: How to minister to those in same-sex attraction without compromising biblical principles. Fred Luter Jr., pastor of Franklin Avenue, said the “Embracing Restoration” summit […]