Saving Your Family From Music Porn (Baptist Press) "Nearly every 12 year-old knows Rihanna, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Do you?
The music industry today is huge, racking up over 1.5 billion in sales in the U.S. alone, and kids are their target audience. It's an industry that is no longer primarily about music. It's become another avenue for selling porn and sexualizing younger and younger children in the process.
Recently, Mike Stock, one of Britain's top songwriters and producers, denounced his own industry for marketing music that is, what he calls "99 percent soft pornography."

Abortion and Human Rights (Greg Koukl) "Let me ask you a question. Are you against slavery? Do you believe that the issue of slavery is a moral position? Are laws legislating that particular moral position appropriate? What you've said is that it's appropriate to legislate certain moral issues and that you'd be in favor of that. The economic issue would actually be on the side of the South because slavery is what propped up the economic system of the South. When slaves were emancipated it gutted them of their economic force. Let's remove the economic argument.

Based solely on morality, are you willing to say that the moral issue of slavery should be enforced simply as a moral issue? This is a very important point. Many people have offered the objection that we should not force a particular morality in the issue of abortion. My questions are very pointed and leading..."

God and Global Warming (Baptist Press)  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--"I remember when I first heard about global warming. It was 1980 and I was in my senior year of college at Savannah State College (now Savannah State University). I was reading an article in Omni magazine about how human activity is causing an increase of greenhouse gases leading to global warming. I remember thinking how strange that people would be concerned about global warming when, just a year or two before, climate scientists were warning us about global cooling and a new ice age..."

Who Respects the Human Body? Not Homosexuals (Nancy Pearcey) "The ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker to strike down Proposition 8 raises a host of issues that go far beyond the California case. Especially troubling is Walker's view of gender. His ruling makes the sweeping assertion that "gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage." This declaration is being quoted in astonishment for its sheer breathtaking exaggeration. Yet it reveals a pivotal element in the liberal view of human sexuality..."

Signature in the Cell: Information and Intelligence (Chuck Colson) "In recent years, there have been several important books about intelligent design that go to the debate about evolution and the origins of life. Bill Dembski’s The Design Inference was first. Then along came Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe, showing the irreducible complexity of the cell, which casts grave doubts on Darwinian evolution as an explanation for life and higher life forms..."

The World’s Prayer Guide (CT) "Operation World might just be one of the most popular and influential evangelical books you've never read. Since 1974, the daily, country-by-country prayer guide has sold 2.5 million copies in six editions, including about 400,000 for the 2001 (most recent) edition. Canadian Jason Mandryk, a missionary researcher with Worldwide Evangelization for Christ International, has taken the reins as author of the newest edition, which will be published next month..."

Redefining Marriage has Consequences (Baptist Press) "ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--If you change any aspect of a mathematical or chemical equation, you not only alter the equation, you also affect its outcome. A judge's recent ruling on marriage changes the entire concept of matrimony. If it is allowed to stand, it will also influence the outcome of marriage and its impact on society..."

Who is Being Irrational? Prop 8 and Judicial Overreach (Chuck Colson)  "Is there a rational basis for prohibiting same-sex marriage? Yes, Judge Walker’s opinion notwithstanding.  In his ruling overturning California’s Proposition 8, Judge Vaughn Walker wrote that the amendment failed the legal test that is a “rational basis” for limiting marriage to heterosexual couples. According to Walker, all it did was “enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.”

Afghan Aid Workers Were ‘Unwavering’ (Baptist Press) "NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Heather Mercer, who along with Dayna Curry was held captive by the Taliban for 105 days nine years ago, said the aid workers who were killed recently in Afghanistan were an example of what it means to love a forgotten people..."

Three Lies about Reaching Muslims (Baptist Press).  "MIDDLE EAST (BP)--Karim* grew up in an Arab Christian family in a Middle Eastern country -- part of the "1 percent of Christians among the 99 percent Muslims," as he describes it.  When you're part of a tiny, historically persecuted minority, you tend to keep your head down and your mouth closed. You also tend to believe what your elders tell you about the majority, whether it's true or not. Karim did -- for a time...."

Deep Sea Slugs: God’s Creativity at the Bottom of the Sea.   "This spectacular looking creature is not an alien lifeform, but one of 3,000 varieties of sea slugs that live on ocean floors around the world. They are among the most visually stunning animals that you could ever hope to see, and while the name sea slug is somewhat yucky, the alternative, nudibranch, sounds rather sophisticated. These amazing mobile works of art can really make you gasp - they look that good! ..."

Jeremy Lin: Rare Harvard grad, Asian-American, Christian in the NBA (Washtington Post).  "After eight U.S. presidents, 19 Supreme Court justices and 41 Nobel laureates, it looks like Harvard University can chalk up a different achievement this summer: its first grad in the NBA in 57 years, and just the fourth ever..."