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Janice Shaw Crouse A Christian Call to ArmsJanice Shaw Crouse, IRD Board Member, is a Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank for Concerned Women for America.
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Religiously Opposing Missile Defense Purely defensive weapons that destroy incoming missiles seemingly would appeal even to pacifists. But most opposition to missile defense is rooted in an almost religious faith in arms control as the solvent for all strategic threats.
Religious “Truth” Commission to Examine U.S. War “Atrocities” In a 40 year flashback to the glories of 1960’s anti-war outrage, infamously left-wing Riverside Church in New York City is hosting a “Truth Commission on Conscience in War” next month.
Archbishop of Canterbury Opens Trinity Wall Street Economics Conference “Building An Ethical Economy: Theology and the Marketplace” was the 40th annual event hosted by Trinity Wall Street’s Trinity Institute.
Please pray for Shouwang House Church, BeijingWeek two of Ten Thursdays of Prayer for China’s Church. Beijing’s Shouwang House Church is part of the new house church movement in China that has reached intellectuals, artists, and democracy activists.
"You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right"
- Rev. Carlton Veazy of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Speaking at a pro-abortion event on Capitol Hill that opposed restrictions on government-funded abortions in the House of Representatives-passed health care legislation.