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January 2011

[TBC: Front Page Mag recently presented an interview with Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam . Here is an excerpt.] Front Page: Ok,...Read more
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Does Psychotherapy Really Work? [Excerpts] U. S. News and World Report recently (May 23) ran a lead article titled, "Does Therapy Work? The growing controversy." Please note that the subtitle is "The growing controversy." The issue regarding the efficacy of psychotherapy is far from settled. However, people are quick to...Read more
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"Por tanto, es necesario que con más diligencia atendamos a las cosas que hemos oído, no sea que nos deslicemos" (Hebreos 2:1). La importancia de conocer lo que la Biblia enseña y asegurarnos que nuestros pensamientos y acciones estén conforme a la Palabra de Dios es recalcado por advertencias dadas...Read more
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" Science Says" Is Now Just Another Special Interest Claim President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, "facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day." According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to...Read more
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Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake [Excerpts] The U.S. Geological Survey is blaming day-to-day seismological changes for [April 4, 2010] 7.2 earthquake along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine practitioner and transcendental meditation guru, is pretty sure he knows what really happened. "Had a powerful meditation...Read more
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining--they just shine. --Dwight L. MoodyRead more
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Church removes racial references in Book of Mormon headings [Excerpts] The LDS Church has made subtle — but significant — changes to chapter headings in its online version of the faith’s signature scripture, The Book of Mormon , toning down some earlier racial allusions. The words “skin of blackness” were...Read more
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Author: Most Evangelicals Believe Good People are Heaven-Bound [Excerpts] The majority of Protestants and evangelicals believe that good people and people of other religions can go to heaven, according to author David Campbell. Campbell, who co-wrote American Grace, How Religion Divides and Unites Us, contends that surveys of 3,000 Americans,...Read more
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'One is not enough,' Buddhist woman says at lantern ceremony [Excerpts] I'm surrounded by thousands of suspended paper lanterns that look like glowing jellyfish in a black ocean. I reach out and touch one. It bounces off me, awaiting its ascent heavenward. Fireworks explode overhead. Green, red and blue sparklers...Read more
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