Feature by Dr. Marc T. Newman MovieMinistry.com May 13, 2005 (AgapePress) – In Hollywood, no good film idea goes unpunished. Make a film that does big box office and you can be certain that a slew of similar films will be in the offing. Disney gives us A Bug’s Life and the next thing you
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw 53785. Shaw, George Bernard. The Columbia World
By Dan Miller 48days.com CBN.COM — Remember the famous experiment called the Pygmalion Effect? Twenty-five grade school teachers were told their students were underachievers from apathetic families. Another twenty-five were told their students were high achievers from supportive families. The test scores of the “underachievers” dropped by 25 points, while the scores of the “overachievers”
BY JONATHAN CHEW KUALA LUMPUR: Family members and friends have called David Goh a “miracle man” after he survived a deadly bomb blast at a supermarket in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 7. Goh, a 52-year-old motivational speaker, who sustained partial nerve damage in his left arm and needed 50 stitches for his injuries, counted himself
Draft bills could result in the persecution of religious minorities in Sri Lanka – United Nations official Friday, May 13, 2005, 13:02 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 13, Colombo: Asma Jahangir, the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s special rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, has said that the provisions of both draft
By Jim Brown May 12, 2005 (AgapePress) – Intelligent design advocates are drawing attention to what they call a “smoking gun” memo that outlines the strategy of pro-Darwinian forces in the debate over science standards in Kansas. At issue is an Internet post by Liz Craig, a spokeswoman from the group Kansas Citizens for Science.
by Jonathan Sarfati The latest ‘feathered dinosaur’ claim provokes even some evolutionists to use words like ‘total hoax’ A National Geographic (NG) article ‘Feathers for T. Rex?’ by the Senior Assistant Editor, Christopher Sloan,1 has attracted fierce criticism from some prominent evolutionists for its promotion of the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs. The article
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker May 11, 2005 (AgapePress) – A popular black evangelist is hoping that the new resolution on homosexuality in public schools that he has helped to put before the Southern Baptist Convention will spark a mass exodus of Baptist children from public schools. The resolution, submitted by attorney and author
May 5th, 2005 Jihad conquests and early Muslim rule in Syro-Palestine Moshe Gil, in his seminal analysis A History of Palestine, 634-1099, emphasizes the singular centrality that Palestine occupied in the mind of its pre-Islamic Jewish inhabitants, who referred to the land as “al-Sham.” Indeed, as Gil observes, the sizable Jewish population in Palestine (who
May 4th, 2005 The New York Times’ Alan Riding recently opined that “…[The C]rusades were waged, [by] European monarchs, lords, knights and their armies of devout followers to fight – and settle – in an area stretching between what is today Syria and Egypt. The Muslims responded [emphasis added] with their own sporadic jihads until