A Canadian physician was ordered to pay $28,100 after refusing to give a 14-year-old a puberty-blocker injection. The ruling sends a chilling message to Christian doctors: violate your conscience - or prepare to pay.
For most of the personal computer's history, the relationship was simple: you owned the machine, opened a program, and expected it to obey. But Microsoft is preparing Windows for a very different digital future--one in which applications may first ask the operating system what kind of person is sitting behind the screen and whether that person has been verified.
For years, traditional Methodists were warned that holding firmly to biblical teaching would leave them isolated, irrelevant and unable to survive in a changing culture. If the church wanted a future, they were told, it would have to become more inclusive, more flexible and less dogmatic about what Scripture actually says. Then the United Methodist Church split—and something unexpected happened.
Young men in bathing trunks emerge from a Swedish lake and begin cheering, embracing, and jumping with joy. They have just been baptized--not in America's Bible Belt or somewhere in the developing world, but in one of the most secular nations on earth.
Remembering 9/11 cannot be reduced to photographs, moments of silence and flags lowered to half-staff. Those acts honor the dead, but they do not protect the living. To truly remember September 11 is to remember that weakness does not satisfy ideological enemies. Withdrawal does not necessarily end their war. Refusing to name them does not make them disappear.
Jacob Coxon did not leave the artificial intelligence industry because he feared losing his job to a machine. He left because he feared what the machines themselves may become.
A disturbing pattern is spreading through LGBTQ-affirming churches. In sermons, Pride liturgies and online worship clips, the familiar opening words of Jesus' Beatitudes--"Blessed are"--are being borrowed and filled with an entirely different message.
Islamist power offers inmates a compelling package: protection from enemies, membership in a brotherhood, a new identity and a cause larger than themselves. For men who are lonely, angry, frightened or facing years behind bars, that offer can be enormously attractive. Once inside the group, however, belonging may require obedience - to the emir, to the gang’s rules and eventually to its ideology.
The television is off. The screen is dark. The family has stopped watching. But what if the television has not stopped watching them?
For nearly three centuries, worshippers have entered St Paul’s Cathedral to pray beneath its towering dome, hear Scripture proclaimed, and remember that there are things in this world greater than themselves. Now one of Britain’s most sacred Christian landmarks has found a new partner: a nightclub.
Taking on the guise of standardized bioethics, accreditation boards and residency matching programs have begun systematically filtering out doctors who don't fit the mold -- largely those who are Christian due to their pro-life tendencies -- all before they take their first step into an operating room.
Israel was promised a peace partner. Now its military is being told to prepare for the possibility of fighting that partner’s armed forces in an all-out war.