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In The World—September 3, 2017

By Melissa Wuske Acceptance on Moral Issues Changing Americans are increasingly accepting of a wide range of moral issues, according to a Gallup poll. The share of respondents who deemed the following issues acceptable are at their highest recorded levels: birth control (91 percent), divorce (73 percent), sex between an unmarried man and woman (69 […]

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10 Reasons to Consider Homeschooling

By Lori Hatcher Thirty years ago, when homeschooling first reappeared on the educational radar screen, it was limited primarily to families who seemed, shall I say, unusual. One family achieved national recognition when they left their suburban lifestyle and moved to a goat farm in Upstate New York to rear and educate their sons. The […]

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In The World—August 27, 2017

By Melissa Wuske Christians Believe Competing Worldviews Many Christians agree with ideas that are linked to competing worldviews, according to a recent Barna research study. More than half of practicing Christians resonated with ideas rooted in New Spirituality (61 percent) and postmodernism (54 percent), and about a third agree with ideas from Marxism (36 percent) […]

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Men of God in a Changing Culture

By Victor Knowles It’s not your grandfather’s times anymore. Ravi Zacharias recently observed, “These days it’s not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being […]