A CHRISTIAN electrician who won a battle to keep displaying a palm cross in his work van has now been told to stay at home by his Yorkshire employers, his supporters have claimed.
In the News
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August 1st, 2011
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August 1st, 2011The Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine suggesting that it force insurance companies to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions under the Obamacare government-run health care program.
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July 31st, 2011The world is becoming unbalanced. In pockets across the globe, women are giving birth to too many boys. In China, the sex ratio is 121 boys to 100 girls. In India, it's 112-to-100. Sex selection also is a force in the Balkans, Armenia and Georgia. In her eye-opening book, "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men," journalist Mara Hvistendahl estimates that ultrasound and abortion have "claimed over 160 million potential women and girls -- in Asia alone." That's more than the entire female population of the United States.
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July 31st, 2011Back in February I reported on a BBC story claiming that ‘a third of NHS trusts still offer homeopathy despite there being no scientific evidence for its effectiveness’. I laid out a checklist for Christians for assessing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies.
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July 31st, 2011The electrician who won his battle to display a cross in his company van after his plight was highlighted by The Mail on Sunday has accused his employers of victimising him following his return to work.
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July 31st, 2011Healing is a mystery; a miracle, even. The cure of souls has long been the task of theologians and ministers, while the cure of bodies has been given over to scientists. But in the healing, sustaining, guiding of disturbed persons whose troubles arise in the context of ultimate meaning and concerns, we find ourselves in need either of prayer or the psychiatrist’s couch: ‘counselling’ has become a new religion. While theologians increasingly learn less Greek and almost invariably no Hebrew, the pastoral focus is on social services and ‘therapy’: the Church has abandoned Scripture and spiritual direction for synergetic psychology and generic spirituality. We end up with a Freudian-Jungian creed: “We believe in psychotherapy, alternative medicine and pseudo-science, Maker of all things human, seen and unseen...”
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July 30th, 2011MUSLIM extremists calling for democracy to be replaced by Sharia law marched through the borough.
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July 30th, 2011Two cases of women in their 50s with serious brain damage went before the courts this week.
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July 30th, 2011A fascinating article by Philippa Taylor on the official CMF Blog highlights an apparently straightforward question to government last week (20 July) which has exposed ‘a murky mix of confusion and secrecy from which the true facts and figures are difficult to extract’.
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July 30th, 2011Three exciting news stories about stem cell therapies – none of which involves the destruction of human embryos – have been announced this month.