US EVANGELICAL WEBSITE BREAKS TRADITION BY URGING READERS TO “BACK AWAY” FROM WOULD-BE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP
1st March, 2016 The US-based publication The Christian Post has issued an editorial urging its readers to "back away" from would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump ahead of ‘Super Tuesday’. The senior editors of the website – which they describe as the "most popular evangelical news website in the United States and the world" – write […]
PAKISTAN HANGS KILLER OF GOVERNOR WHO CHALLENGED BLASPHEMY LAW
1st March, 2016 Pakistan has executed the murderer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who had justified the 2011 assassination upon Taseer’s desire for reforms in the blasphemy law, and for his support of Asia Noreen (also known as Asia Bibi), a Christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy. Mumtaz Qadri was hanged early on Monday, […]
ESSAY: RESPECT NEEDED ON BOTH SIDES OF SAME-SEX DEBATE
BARNEY ZWARTZ, a senior fellow of the Centre for Public Christianity, expresses his hope that both sides in the same-sex marriage debate can act with “simple human decency”…
SIGHT-SEEING: CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
BRIAN NIXON, in a piece first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at how the creative arts could be considered a spiritual discipline…