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By The Christian Post • March 17th, 2010

Amid the uproar over Glenn Beck’s recent comments about the church and social justice, theologian Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. says that while Beck’s comments were lacking in context, the social gospel is one that redirects Christian emphasis on salvation through Jesus to using politics to create heaven on earth. “The urgency for any faithful Christian is this – flee any church that for any reason or in any form has abandoned the Gospel of Christ for any other gospel.” Read more »

C-FAM reasserts their story that Planned Parenthood distributed explicit sex guides to Girl Scouts at a recent UN conference, including information that debunks denials from Girl Scout leadership that the event happened. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve new standards for social studies classes. The 11-4 vote was a preliminary approval for a curriculum that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next 10 years. Texas has the second largest school system in the nation, behind California, and is the second-largest textbook market in the country. The Lone Star state can thus have influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide. Read more »

A Christian legal group filed an appeal this week to fight a ban against a church meeting in homes. With only seven members, Oasis of Truth Church was ordered to stop holding all activities, including Bible studies, leadership meetings and fellowship activities, in Pastor Joe Sutherland’s home in Gilbert, Ariz. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys contend in the appeal that was filed Wednesday that banning religious meetings of any size or frequency in a home is unprecedented and unconstitutional. Read more »

A legal group on Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s poster that was censored by a school because it contained the image of Jesus. When Antonio was in kindergarten, he drew a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world” for an art project about the environment. Read more »

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on national currency. The pledge does not constitute an establishment of religion, Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “[T]he Pledge is an endorsement of our form of government, not of religion or any particular sect.” Read more »

A strikingly higher percentage of Americans believe that the threat posed by global warming is exaggerated, a new Gallup survey found. Nearly half of the public (48 percent) think that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41 percent in 2009 and 31 percent in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question. Gallup noted that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is generally overblown is the highest on its record. Read more »

Republican gubernatorial candidate Gordon Howie says last week’s plan from legislative leadership called for budget cuts, but this plan doesn’t actually cut the budget. Howie says it increases government spending. Read more »

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed all claims against Shirley Dobson, the wife of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, in a lawsuit challenging the National Day of Prayer. Shirley Dobson is chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force and was among the names listed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a lawsuit filed in October 2008. Read more »

Most Americans claim belief in God but many are living as “Christian atheists,” according to some pastors. “We believe in Jesus enough to get us out of hell but not actually enough to change the way we live.” Read more »

Gay and lesbian couples will be able to apply for a marriage license in the nation’s capital beginning Wednesday. But traditional marriage supporters are making a last minute effort to stop the new law, which was passed in December, from taking effect. Read more »

Citizens for Liberty, the Rapid City Tea Party group, hosted the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit today at the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. Tea Party and other limited groups from all over South Dakota came together to strategize on how to best promote limited government, to share ideas and develop better communication between groups. South Dakotans are joining thousands of other energized patriots across the country who are determined to return government to the control of the people, and return government to its constitutional boundaries. Read more »

Dr. James Dobson is saying his final farewell to the ministry he founded 33 years ago. His last day at Focus on the Family is Friday. Read more »

New research shows that patients on anti-depressants are more likely to experience improvement if they believe in a “concerned God.” The study, released on Tuesday by Rush University Medical Center, found that patients with strong beliefs in a personal and concerned God were 75 percent more likely to get better with medical treatment for clinical depression that other patients. Read more »

Democratic candidate for Congress Woodrow Wilcox is urging Congress to reject “Obamacare”. Wilcox sent faxes and emails to key congressional leaders to persuade them to oppose President Obama’s version of health care reform legislation. Read more »

President Obama’s support among born-again Christians has decreased after a year in office, a new survey shows. Among all born-again Christians, 35 percent are satisfied with the job the president is doing, according to a survey conducted by The Barna Group. Read more »

A Christian legal group announced Saturday its intention to sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray. The decree bars school officials from “promoting, advancing, endorsing, participating in, or causing Prayers” and from “orally express[ing] personal religious beliefs to students during or in conjunction with instructional time or a School Event.” Read more »

An illustration of Jesus holding a can of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other has sparked outrage among India’s Christian community. What’s worse is that the image was published in a textbook for primary school children. Read more »

Jim Allen, one of the eight American volunteers freed from jail in Haiti, said he believed the team had all the paperwork necessary to take Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Read more »

Lutherans who have left or are pondering their exit from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have put a name to the alternate church body they plan to form – North American Lutheran Church. A proposal for the new denominational body that is intended to provide a biblically faithful home for disaffected Lutherans was released Thursday, on the anniversary of the death of 16th century reformer Martin Luther. Read more »

The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships is not a dispenser of government money, said the office’s director in a speech Thursday. The current office is seeking to portray itself as a community organizer of sorts. Read more »