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Decries "dominance of an agnostic or even a materialistic approach to life which causes anxiety amongst believers" GENEVA, March 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has called for worldwide inter-religious dialogue on human rights and denounced the "dangerous" anti-life and secularist trends in human rights thought. Human rights, a concept brought into Europe by Christianity, has been subverted by a small group of activists and civil servants who have imposed an atheist or agnostic interpretation. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kallingrad spoke for many Christians outside the Russian Orthodox Church when he told the 7th...

Hollywood, Calif. – A new five-year study of the Top 250 movies at the box office shows that movies with very strong Christian worldviews earn the most money. They even outperform movies with lots of foul language, sex and nudity. The new study was released today by the Annual Movieguide® Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry, which just held its 16th Annual Awards Gala Tuesday evening, Feb. 12, at the glamorous Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. “The Good News is that the bad news is wrong,� declared a joyous Dr. Ted Baehr, Christian theologian and founder of...

In his World Peace Day message, Pope Benedict XVI included caring for the environment as an important part of promoting peace. Nothing controversial about that—environmental degradation has often led to conflict over resources. What was controversial was the Pope’s speaking about environmental issues as if the Christian worldview were true. Benedict told his audience that “respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man.” This statement should not have been controversial or even noteworthy. As Frank Furedi of the British magazine spiked pointed out, the fact that the Pope “felt it was necessary to...

Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values. These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended. "[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we...

Disclaimer: This article is a blog post and does not represent the views or opinions of Reiten Television, KXNet.com, its staff and associates and is wholly owned by the user who posted this content. So much for secular government… Now, I understand that Christians believe the word of God (as defined by the various denominations) is the ultimate truth. And I understand that Christians want to incorporate that truth as they see it in our laws. But what we need to remember is that while Christianity dominates America’s spiritual landscape not everyone in America is a Christian. We’ve got Jews...

Books come and go, with hundreds of new titles released each week. Most of these books will quickly go out of print, make their way to remainder tables, and eventually be forgotten. On the other hand, sometimes a book comes along that demands immediate attention and will earn long-term influence. That is certainly the case with Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey, which may well be one of the most important Christian books of our times. Total Truth, subtitled "Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity," is a manifesto for Christian worldview thinking in the 21st century. The book is a masterpiece...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Jewish leaders to devise strategyBy Julia DuinTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished December 5, 2005 A group of Jewish leaders meets in New York this week to develop a response to the religious right, which they say is eroding civil liberties and planning to "christianize America."     Led by Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the private meeting is set for today, said an assistant to Mr. Yoffie.     Both men were unavailable for comment Friday, and neither organization would divulge details of the meeting, including who...

I bagged rice on a co-op line elbow-to-elbow with a peaceful woman who was the mother of five children and several foster children, and was involved in the pro-life movement. I asked how she did it, and to her credit she didn't brush off the question with feigned modesty, but said, "I do the next thing that needs to be done." I have pondered that statement for years, the distillation of a lady's life of wisdom. Laurie is a Christian, so I know what lay unspoken in her answer: God is sovereign, and God is good. Indeed, it cannot be...

Warning that the Evangelical right has made alarming gains in social and political influence, a leading Jewish church-state watchdog is calling for a tougher and more unified Jewish response. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaking to the group’s national leadership here last week, signaled a sharp shift in ADL policy by directly attacking several prominent religious right groups and challenging their motives, which he said include nothing less than “Christianizing America.” Among the groups he cited were the powerful Focus on the Family ministry and the Family Research Council. Foxman said as these groups seek to use...

NEW YORK - Institutionalized Christianity in the U.S. has grown so extremist that it poses a tangible danger to the principle of separation of church and state and threatens to undermine the religious tolerance that characterizes the country, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, warned in his address to the League's national commission, meeting in New York City over the weekend. (Haaretz Newspaper, Israel.) We Jews aren’t chic any longer. Not too many people care for Jews these days. Europe, including England, makes little secret of how it feels towards Jews. If possible, they care even less...

Following a week-end attending a Worldview Conference, I came home with my mind full of the many directions we have taken since we first became a sovereign nation based on Godly principles. It is very easy to see the forces coming against our nation and many of them are coming from within...and we have given them our permission. If other worldviews are to flourish, it is imperative that the Christian Heritage of our nation be destroyed. I brought home numerous books and pieces of information and as I read through them, it is not difficult to see how Christianity has...

How do you teach youngsters about truth in a culture that says there is no truth? It's not easy—as I know from experience. Over recent months, I've taught worldview to groups of bright young students. With each group, I had the same distressing experience. When I presented a classic example of a self-refuting moral proposition, they just didn't get it. An example: The late Christopher Reeve, in his wheelchair with a breathing tube, was testifying before a Senate committee. Reeve dismissed moral objections to embryonic stem-cell research, claiming that the purpose of government is "to serve the greatest good for...

A researcher has revealed some disturbing trends regarding the sets of beliefs Christian students in public schools have about the most important issues in life. Dan Smithwick is the founder and president of the Nehemiah Institute, a group that provides a biblical worldview testing and training service to Christian educators. He is the developer of what is called the "PEERS test," a tool to assess the worldviews of young people, and says the majority of public school students from evangelical Christian homes consistently score in the "socialist" category on the test. According to Smithwick, this outcome should come as no...

Vile Christians be gone! J. Matt Barber, November 25, 2004 One would expect that in light of their recent Election Day trouncing, Democrat lefties--secular humanists--disgruntled advocates of Christian abolition, might at least extend a feigned olive branch of understanding to those fanatical, pious, "born-again" Red-Stater types who were in great part, responsible for the Democratic Party’s "inexplicable" and "unjust" defeat. One would be wrong. In his 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, George Washington declared, in part: "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits,...

My Dear Wormwood: I have just returned from our weekly meeting of the Infernal Lowerarchy* where before my peers I was utterly humiliated to report that that educator “patient” of yours has registered for a conference on Christian education. For hell’s sake, how could you let that happen? He was supposed to go on a cruise that week. You are on the verge of letting that man slip through your scaly fingers. At that gathering, they plan on addressing things we have been working assiduously to establish in the Western consciousness for centuries, things like privatization, compartmentalization, and various Endarkenment...

Four years ago, Baylor University announced what it called “Baylor 2012.” Its goal is to “propel [Baylor] into the ranks of the nation’s top tier colleges and universities,” while retaining and even strengthening Baylor’s Christian identity. The most important factors in becoming a “top tier” college or university are the faculty and the students. To that end, Baylor has committed itself to recruiting faculty “capable of achieving the best of scholarship, both in teaching and research.” More important, new faculty members must “embrace the Christian faith” and be “knowledgeable of the Christian intellectual tradition.” The goal is “to exemplify the...

Have you ever tried to debate moral principles with someone who doesn’t believe they exist? If you have, you know it’s an exercise in frustration. In our anything-goes society, even mentioning that there might be such a thing as a moral absolute truth is a good way to get branded intolerant, anachronistic, and a killjoy. And the more frustrated we get with this state of affairs, the more likely we are to turn the stereotype into a self-fulfilling prophecy. That is, our frustration can easily turn into anger, and our anger can begin to look very much like the arrogance...

It was Christianity that brought a fundamentally different view of humanity. A human being no longer belonged to his master but to God. Our society is gradually becoming a post-Christian society in which there is a return to the pre-Christian vision of man. The process is underway but has not yet fully completed itself. Hence, we object not only to the murder of Julie, Melissa, An, Eefje and Loubna, but also to the way in which they were raped and abused as objects of for the satisfaction of sexual lust. But we do not object to using people as...

This winter our Wilberforce Forum presented our second Capitol Hill lecture series: “Contours of a Christian Worldview.” Our goal is to encourage members of Congress and their staffs to apply a Christian worldview to their primary calling—making laws. One of the speakers who participated in both the first lecture series in 2000 and this year’s lecture series is University of California at Berkeley scholar Phillip Johnson, who also received our Wilberforce Award this year. In 2000 Prof. Johnson addressed for the members of Congress the need to teach the controversy surrounding evolution. Claiming that evolution is established fact, you see,...

Gollum's Soliloquyby Gary Schneeberger, CitizenLink editor Audience reaction to a key scene in the latest "Lord of the Rings" movie puts the culture war into perspective. It's been a few weeks since I saw "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," and one scene is still stuck in my head. It's not one of the battle sequences, as breathtaking as those are; it's not one of the concluding vignettes, as emotionally satisfying as those are; in fact, it's not even a scene that owes its impact on me to director Peter Jackson's artistry, as prodigious as that...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. In their book HOW NOW SHALL WE LIVE? Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey tell the story of a father and his teenage daughter on vacation at Disney World. The man knows his daughter is having some problems, but when he tries to question her about them, he's shocked by what he hears. After hearing her Christian beliefs challenged by her teachers and friends, she's on the verge of giving up her faith. She's come to believe that the only real answers come from science, and that faith is only...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Ever feel like you're on dangerous ground? I do. With two of my six children in public universities and four on the way up, I'm very aware of the battle for the minds and hearts of our kids. We do our best to teach them about the Christian faith, and we pray it's enough to protect them against all the pressures of the outside world. But it probably won't be if we don't intentionally teach our children a biblical worldview and give them confidence that their faith is intellectually...

A Film Series by Francis Schaeffer With comments by Dr. Robert A. Morey Episode One: The Roman Age Key Terms: A. "Presupposition" Those foundational ideas or concepts that are: 1. assumed to be true or self-evident. 2. form the basis of one’s explanation of the world, man and God. 3. The "first" or "beginning" ideas or propositions that are the "Given." 4. The glasses through which you interpret life. B. "Human autonomy" 1. The foundational presupposition of all humanistic philosophy, religion, ethics, politics, etc. 2. It is the assumption that man starting from himself, by himself, with himself without any...