April 2022

First United Church of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, “will not be using any music or liturgy written or composed by white people,” according to their website. They are “fasting from whiteness.” Instead, they will use the “voices of Black people, indigenous people, and people of color.” The church, which is pastored by a […]

“Spider silk begins as a liquid protein made by silk glands on the spider’s abdomen. Spiders make many kinds of silk for different uses. As the liquid silk is forced through the spider’s spinnerets, it begins to dry. The spinnerets pull and stretch the silk, creating just the right kind of silk for the spider’s

“If there’s one thing we’ve learned during the pandemic it’s that many parents had no idea what was going on in their kids’ schools. Oh, parents knew there was crazy stuff going on in other schools, but by and large, there was a sense of NIMBY –it’s not happening in my backyard. Sadly, we’ve become increasingly aware of the

“Insanity over pronouns has hit the Midwest. Children and teachers are being pressured to declare their pronouns, and parents are livid. In the Olentangy school district near Columbus, a middle school language teacher required all the students to stand up and declare his or her pronouns. A high school teacher in that same district told the

According to a new poll by Public Opinion Strategies, 26 percent of registered voters oppose a new Florida law that forbids transsexualism to be taught in kindergarten through grade 3 of public schools. While 61 percent support the law, a margin of two to one, it is still frightful that more than a quarter of

“After a week of saying that he would launch a new social media platform, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has become Twitter’s largest shareholder. As reported by Fox Business, a Monday filing from the SEC showed that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought 73.5 million shares of Twitter, giving him a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter Inc.

“A Finnish court has dismissed all charges against a Christian member of Parliament and a bishop charged under Finland’s ‘hate speech’ and ‘ethnic agitation’ law for supporting traditional marriage. The court ordered the government to reimburse the two. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, the Helsinki District Court determined that it isn’t its job ‘to interpret biblical concepts’

“Do your eyes ever play tricks on you? Our eyes regularly play tricks on us with the help of our brains. Repeated research has shown that the images we see are not exactly what our eyes see. Our eyes and brains work together to construct the images we call sight. It’s not that our eyes

“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal” (Matthew 25:46). “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).

“Poll,” Israel365 News, Mar. 23, 2022: “According to a new Gallup poll from February, the favorability of the Jewish state itself remains high, with 71% of U.S. adults saying they have a favorable view of Israel while 27% have a favorable opinion of the Palestinian Authority. That percentage of Americans who side with the Palestinians represents

“Negotiations have begun to establish a globally binding agreement to combat future pandemics, raising concerns that such an accord would undermine national sovereignty and centralize too much power in the hands of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ health agency. In a recent open letter, the World Council for Health, a coalition of

“More than half of U.S. abortions are now done with pills rather than surgery, an upward trend that spiked during the pandemic with the increase in telemedicine, a report released Thursday shows. In 2020, pills accounted for 54% of all U.S. abortions, up from roughly 44% in 2019. The preliminary numbers come from the Guttmacher