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Footings for Children is a curriculum for those who teach children in after-school clubs, Sunday schools, camps, and even home devotionals. It is designed to be adapted and applied in any cultural context, including settings where teaching aids and tools are limited.
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Category Archives: Morality
Abortion, Gosnell, and Justice: Which Way the Future?
We recently wrote two posts about modern-day barbarians. The first was about China’s use of aborted babies to make cosmetics for Western consumption. Then we wrote about the trial of the modern day Hannibal Lecter, Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell’s trial is … Continue reading
Relativism: The DEATH OF GOD and the Death of Man
The hideous shadow of death looms over the West today, a death which is the fruit of relativism. Francis Schaeffer once spoke about what he called the “curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Imago Dei, Morality
Tagged Atheism, death, God, relativism
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How Civilized Barbarians Treat Babies [warning: graphic images and story]
Two weeks ago we published CIVILIZED BARBARISM: China’s Abortions and Your Face Cream. The piece touched a nerve; it’s already the fourth most-viewed post (of 800) since we launched this blog 4½ years ago. The article was about what is happening … Continue reading
An EMERGING AGENDA of the “Marriage Equality” Promoters
What’s the “marriage equality” debate really about? The current docket of the US Supreme Court includes two high-profile cases dealing with marriage: the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. A few fundamentalist secularists–the radical fringe of the “LGBT” community–want … Continue reading
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Tagged America, LGBT, marriage, same sex marriage
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The POWER OF TRUTH in a World of Illusion
Christ followers have a story to tell, a story the world needs to hear. It is a powerful story that can transform individual lives, lift communities from poverty, and build nations that are free, just, and compassionate. It is God’s … Continue reading
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Bigot by Today’s Standard?
What does Abraham Lincoln have to teach us about tolerance? Some years ago I heard a Christian leader relate a conversation he’d had with his son upon his graduation from public high school. “What values were you taught?” he asked … Continue reading
End AIDS with One Book
According to the latest UNICEF estimates, 34 million people in the world suffer from HIV/AIDS. Half of the afflicted are women. Ten percent are children. In 2010, the latest available year for which we have statistics, 2.7 million people were … Continue reading
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Is it Immoral to Have Children?
“If we all saw the harm we were doing by having children and put a stop to it, within a century or so the world’s population would drop to zero.” So writes Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, arguing in … Continue reading
Sexual Anarchy: Judeo-Christian Morality As Deviant
Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity. So writes Dennis … Continue reading
What A Nation’s Culture Reveals About its God
Culture arises from the cult … when belief in the cult has been wretchedly enfeebled, the culture will decay swiftly. The material order rests upon the spiritual order. … The culture can be renewed only if the cult is renewed; … Continue reading
