So, what do you know about Roe? Take a quick self-test here.
According to research done by Barna group, evangelicals’ top concern remains abortion (94%).
Penna Dexter explains why we need a prolife president. It's all about his or her nominees, many who hold office long after a president leaves:
The attorney general and the Department of Justice have considerable sway over how laws advancing abortion or limiting it are enforced.“Marriage is not primarily about what we as individuals think we want or need. It is about a central public commitment that the society needs, that couples need, that children need, and yes, that the spouses need. Marriage is a public institution, not merely a private commitment” (Albert Mohler, in response to a Newsweek “My Turn” column rejecting the need for marriage).
The secretary of health and human services oversees all kinds of programs that could either encourage or discourage the frequency and availability of abortion.
And, perhaps most of all, the federal and Supreme Court judges a president nominates have a lasting impact on abortion policy and other pro-life issues in America, hopefully even overturning Roe v. Wade and its companion decision, Doe v. Bolton.
Hannah Montana star relies on her family and her faith (story).
Gene Chappell’s dad, the cowboy artist Bill Chappell, is featured in this story. No photos of his artwork accompany the online edition, but you can find images at his website here.
“You’re a sh***y person and the world would be a better place without you in it.” Read this sad, chilling, cautionary tale about a Myspace hoax played on a middle school girl that resulted in her suicide. Somehow, some way, adults were involved in the hoax, which makes it even more disturbing.
"Let the End Times Roll." Global warming? *Yawn* There’s a lot more that could do us in: the end of oil, the disappearance of bees, the explosion of the supervolcano under Yellowstone, drug-resistant superbugs, water shortages, and DNA decay, to name a few.
“Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory Saturday [2 weeks ago], a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him” (story). Looks like the kid got the last laugh this past Sunday.
“Our challenge, as communicators of the gospel, is not that God was in Jesus but that God was in Jesus reconciling the world to himself. We cannot make this faith mean anything we want. There is mystery, room for wonder, doubt, disagreement. But there are also these nasty particularities that make the gospel unavoidably abrasive, discordant, and so very interesting.” (William Willimon in “Jesus vs. Generic God.” Willimon will be at Austin Seminary Feb 4-6 (website).
Jeffrey Overstreet started an interesting conversation of films that portray Christianity in a positive light. In addition to the Greydanus list that he quotes, off the top of my head I thought of Amistad, The Simpsons Movie, A River Runs Through It, The Waterfront, An Affair to Remember (the original, not the remake), and The Mission. Can you think of any others?
New research finds those who believe in fate over free will are more likely to act immorally.
USA Today’s Cathy Lynn Grossman on “Making a ‘bucket list’ before you kick.”
“[Conservative] religious Americans are not only much more likely to give money and volunteer their time to religious and secular institutions, they are also more likely to provide aid to family members, return incorrect change, help a homeless person, and donate blood. . . . If secular élites continue to cling to their stereotypes of evangelicals and ignore social science, then they will embrace the very intolerance and anti-intellectualism they accuse religious believers of possessing” (In a review of the Arthur Brooks book, Who Really Cares?)
Have you read the previous posts since last Tuesday? They include the “Song of the Week“ (this week, The Police “Message in a Bottle”).
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