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D.C. Police Chief Calls Out Realities of Marijuana

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2021/08/04

In 2015, then-Washington D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier assured reporters that legalizing marijuana would not have an effect on crime. “They just want to get a bag of chips and to relax,” she said. “Alcohol is a much bigger problem.” Six years later and DC is dealing with more than the munchies. Current Police Chief Robert Contee recently declared, “Marijuana undoubtedly is connected to violent crimes.” This in a community with a 20 percent increase in violent crime since Covid. Contee grew-up in

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Syndey McLaughlin Joined God’s Story

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2021/08/03

In 2016, sixteen-year-old American runner Sydney McLaughlin stepped onto the track at Rio De Janeiro as the youngest Olympic track competitor in decades. But after failing to qualify for the 400 meter hurdle finals in Rio, she stepped back from a seven-figure salary as a pro to strap on a bookbag at the University of Kentucky. After some focused training and maturing, she told The Guardian, “A lot of my life was trying to prove something, which is an endless cycle that will never fulfill you. My

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Minnesota Politician Makes the Touch Choice for Life

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2021/08/02

Minnesota State senator Julia Coleman faced a dilemma. Informed by her doctors that severe complications threatened her unborn twin sons, she had to decide whether to end the life of one child to save the life of the other. For most people, it would only make sense to “remove” the unhealthy son to preserve the other. But as deeply pro-life Christian, Coleman and her husband declared that they “were never going to choose between our kids.” Following weeks in the NICU, sleepless nights, and thousands

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What is Work Worth?

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2021/07/30

Recently, Anthony Bradley shared a conversation he had with a man who decided to be homeless, not because he took a vow of poverty or had some cataclysmic tragedy. This man was healthy, owned a house, and had recently won the lottery. So, why was he choosing to live on the streets in San Francisco? Because “you can live there, get a job, and never worry about paying rent.” This strange story reveals the inherent contradictions when it comes to how work is viewed in our culture. On one hand, we work

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Bible Now Translated in 700 Languages

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2021/07/29

Wycliffe Bible Translators just announced that the Bible has now been translated into 700 languages. According to Executive Director James Poole, “5.7 billion people who speak 700 languages now have the Bible in the language that speaks to them best.” It’s not clear which language was exactly number 700, since several translations went into circulation around the same time, such as the Huichol language Bible in Mexico, or the Ellomwe language Bible in Malawi, and the Tiv Bible language in Nigeria

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Faith & Trees

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2021/07/28

There’s a tree on the first and last pages of the Bible. Every major character in the Bible is associated with a tree. Trees are the most-mentioned living things in Scripture other than God and people. And a tree was not only the only thing Jesus ever harmed, but the only thing that could harm Him. Former emergency room doctor Matthew Sleeth chronicles this pattern of trees in Scripture in his outstanding book Reforesting Faith. He joins Shane Morris on the Colson Center’s Upstream Podcast to make

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Take Your Kids on a Hike

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2021/07/27

The Washington Post recently reported that some stuck-at-home teenagers are finding relief during this coronavirus chaos, from the news cycle, by stepping outside without their phones. “…spaced a careful six feet apart, high school students are discovering a pastime typically enjoyed by older generations.” They’re taking walks. One California teen described how she’s explored the trails near her home for the first time. “I could have gone through my entire high school and never gone up here,” she

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California is Mandating Insurance Providers Offer...

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2021/07/26

Earlier this year, California’s insurance commissioner declared that health insurers must pay for mastectomies for girls and women with gender dysphoria. Maybe this doesn’t seem shocking. California’s gonna do its California thing after all. Sure, some adults are abusing hormones or hurting their bodies in service to transgender ideology. What’s the big deal? But to brush this off would be a mistake. Just three years ago, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles revealed in a published study that

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Abortion’s Barbarity Continues

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2021/07/23

Recently, the world learned that researchers at the University of Pittsburgh were grafting the scalps of aborted infants onto the flesh of rodents. And now, prolife group Live Action has uncovered that researchers at a California university has been trading in various body parts of aborted children, specifically genitalia, bladders, and kidneys. Perhaps most unsettling is the indifference of the people involved to what in any other context would be considered barbaric. Emails uncovered included

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Our Infant Mortality Rate is Worse Than in 1900

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2021/07/22

My daughters loved the “Little House on the Prairie” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Part of what makes these stories so captivating is what it took for pioneer families to survive the brutal elements as they headed west in the late 1800s. In fact, in 1900 the infant mortality in the U.S. was at about 10 percent. For every 1,000 babies born, over 100 did not live to their first birthday. Due to incredible medical advances, that rate had plummeted to just point-five percent by 2018. Before we are

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Amy Grant's Easy Answer Won't Do

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2021/07/21

Recently, Christian music legend Amy Grant appeared on the pro-LGBT podcast “Proud Radio.” Asked about gay artists in country music, Grant said that she thinks it’s important to “set a welcome table” for people of all sexual orientations because: “None of us are a surprise to God. Nothing about who we are or what we’ve done.” The host understood these words as an endorsement of his gay lifestyle. But nothing Grant said is technically wrong. God does love and welcome sinners. He isn’t surprised by

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The Pascal Persuasion

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2021/07/20

Philosopher Blaise Pascal was best known for his so-called “wager” that believing in God is the smartest decision, even if you’re not sure God exists. What many don’t know is that Pascal was a pioneer in the psychology of persuasion. Heated disagreements are common in social media, writes Olivia Goldhill at “Quartz.” But Pascal suggested centuries ago that if you want to convince someone of your position, you don’t begin by telling them they’re wrong. You understand where they’re coming from, admit

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New Children's Book Proselytizes Abortion

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2021/07/19

Creators of a new children’s book have raised more than $20,000 online to publish their project. The title? What’s an Abortion, Anyway? Creators say they also plan to send 300 copies to libraries across the country. “We believe in building a world for kids and adults where abortion is normalized as another outcome of pregnancy,” reads the fundraising site. But this raises an important question. If abortion is “just another outcome of pregnancy,” why does it require a $20,000 effort to “normalize”

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Christians are Called to Every Square Inch of Creation

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2021/07/16

Chuck Colson was passionate that Christians need to be in every aspect of society. The culture says we can be in any aspect of society, but we’re not allowed to be Christian, in the full sense of the word. Being a Christian means our motivations and interactions are driven by God’s guidance and our desire to be a part of Him restoring all things. That’s why we’re offering a special short course on restoring all things. We have Os Guinness, Chris Brooks, and Angela Franks slated to encourage us and

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Scientific American's Racist Whitewashing of Darwinism

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2021/07/15

In a truly bizarre opinion piece in Scientific American, Allison Hopper argues that questioning evolution is a form of white supremacy. She strains to connect criticism of evolution with racism, even suggesting that those who take the account of Adam and Eve as history are trying to exclude people of color from their ancestry. As one pastor pointed out on Twitter, it’s hard to see how the biblical account of all humans being descended from “one blood” and made in God’s image is racist, while the

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Did Archeologists Find Gideon?

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2021/07/14

One of the problems with skepticism is that again and again, the archaeological record continues to affirm the Bible’s version of history. According to The Jerusalem Post, Israeli scholars recently found an inscription from ancient times, the name “Jerubbaal” written on a jug from the 12th century BC. If you remember your Bible stories, you’ll know that Jerubbaal was another name for Gideon, the Israelite judge who defeated the Midianites with a dramatic night attack using only 300 men. He’s a

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The Face of God on Earth: Understanding the Imago Dei...

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2021/07/13

What is the image of God? Here's what my friend Dr. Glenn Sunshine said: In the ancient Near East when someone claimed to be the image of a god, it meant that the god had given that person authority to rule in his or her name. The proclaimer was literally the face of God on the earth and had that god's authority to rule. It was the title given to kings. We actually see it in Genesis where God says, “Let Us make man in Our image and let him have dominion.” The image of God is found, ultimately, in

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A New Book Show You Aren't What You Think

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2021/07/12

Tim Keller recently reviewed the new book by Chris Bail, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing. Most critiques of technology blame it for making us worse people, but Keller says that’s backwards. We are the real problem, not our technological toys. Many people resort to social media as a way of establishing identity. Our sense of who we are rests in what others see and say about us. As Keller says, “We need validation from someone outside, we cannot validate

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Making or Mocking History?

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2021/07/09

Last month the New York Post congratulated the first transgender contestant for winning the Miss Nevada USA Pageant, saying that the biological male was “making history.” Kataluna Enriquez bested 21 other contestants, in the usual beauty pageant stuff including wearing skimpy swimsuits. For years, these contests have been justly criticized as sexist and objectifying to women. But now that a man is competing, they’re “historic”? Certainly not like the first man on the moon, or Martin Luther King,

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The Fulfillment of the Ancient Promise - The Lord...

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2021/07/08

“I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, eternally begotten of the Father. God from God, Light from Light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father.” The Nicene Creed’s description of God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, was written to counteract the heresy that Jesus was just another creation. John 1 clarifies the Son is actually the very agent of creation and the eternal God himself. What C. S. Lewis describes as the

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