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• Judge Strikes Down California’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Law on a Technicality

  16-05-2018 22:46
  Photo Credit: Alex Borland NAPA, Calif. — A county judge in California has struck down the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, ruling that lawmakers wrongfully glided the bill through during a special legislative session that was to have focused on Medicaid funding, services for the disabled and in-home healthcare services. While he did not base his decision on the merits of the law, Judge Daniel Ottolia of the Riverside County Superior Court agreed with the plaintiffs, repr
  
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• God’s Peace Is Not Always God’s

  16-05-2018 19:23
  How to know when our feelings are truly from the Spirit.
  Our deeply reported March cover story examined multiple perspectives on the role of evangelicals in America’s growing commercial surrogacy industry. One supporter of the practice was quoted as saying, “God called me to seek out what seemed like unconventional ways to serve others.” Another said, “I’m so glad I have a peace about this being God’s plan” (emphasis added).
  Pulling these quotes is not a
  
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• Rwanda Is 95 Percent Christian. So Why Is It Shutting Down Thousands of Churches?

  16-05-2018 16:31
  The state of faith in the East African country nearly 25 years after its brutal genocide.
  Over the past two months, authorities have closed more than 7,000 churches across Rwanda for failing to comply with health, safety, and noise regulations. As CT has previously reported: President Paul Kagame welcomed the shutdowns but was stunned at the scale: “700 churches in Kigali?” he said during a government dialogue in March. “Are these boreholes that give people water? I don’t
  
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• Your Best Years Are Not Behind You

  16-05-2018 16:25 via feeds.christianitytoday.com
  God needs willing workers, not necessarily young ones.
  I am not 25 anymore, or 45, or even 65. But God doesn’t care. It’s Monday and my phone is ringing. My email inbox is full. My workload is steady. The harvest is ripe, as the Good Book says, and God has work for me to do. That’s the biggest surprise to me about getting older: God doesn’t worry about age. He needs willing workers. My biggest life questions aren’t about whether I will dye my hair, buff my thighs, o
  
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• Why Is Our Church Stagnating, and What Do We Do?

  16-05-2018 16:00 via feeds.christianitytoday.com
  Making sure your church is a loving, welcoming environment that genuinely seeks to share the gospel is a great way to address stagnation and to actively pursue growth.
  When we hear the term “stagnating,” it likely elicits a response from us of something unhealthy and functioning poorly. Although it is sometimes the case that something stagnates for bad reasons, it is also true that stagnation is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what we are talking about. When it comes to chu
  
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• ‘I Kissed a Girl’ Katy Perry Speaks About Transcendental Meditation at Vatican Conference

  16-05-2018 02:46
  Pop singer Katheryn Hudson, who goes by the stage name Katy Perry and is known for her lesbian experimentation song “I Kissed a Girl,” recently spoke on transcendental meditation alongside her mentor at the Vatican’s “Unite to Cure” conference. Her appearance, along with others, such as Deepak Chopra and Dr. Mehmet Oz, have raised concern about ongoing ecumenism at the Vatican in joining together all kinds of beliefs and practices under one banner. “Bobby
  
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