COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — A shocking viral video that has been making its rounds on social media shows a self-identified street preacher lambasting a county police officer as he walks away, tongue-lashing him with the proclamation, “You deserve a sniper bullet in your head.”

Jim Gilles of Indiana had been holding signs and calling out to passersby outside of Creflo Dollar’s World Changers Church International on the morning of Oct. 9, 2016 as members were arriving for services. Dollar has been a cont..

Democrats strategizing over how to overcome their recent defeats now have a plan: go left.
They are reasoning that they can get back those working class voters who chose Trump. After all, Trump’s populist economics promises–including protectionism, job protection, and more jobs–goes along with what Democrats used to stand for, before the party embraced globalism and Wall Street.
The Democrats believe that the cultural issues are still to their advantage, so they are going to emphasize their soci..

Christians must understand the new politics not only to give moral guidance but to make sense of Gospel preaching. We must counter not only traditional atheism, materialism and rationalism, but spiritually pagan Oneist thinking. The Gospel begins with God the Creator, Maker of all things, who is distinct from what he makes. The good news of the Gospel is that in his incredible love the Creator condescends to take on flesh and become the Savior of fallen human beings. The paganization of politics..

The Chicago Cubs didn’t really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians. Actually, both teams scored 27 points. So the series was really a tie.
That’s the same kind of reasoning that insists Donald Trump didn’t really win the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. So says Mollie Hemingway in a column about how liberals can learn from conservatives in accepting disappointing outcomes.
From Mollie Hemingway, 10 Things The Right Can Teach The Left About Accepting The Reality ..

I wade into some murky political waters here because some things need to be said. Progressives, who are not afraid to use the argument about the “right side of history” found themselves on the wrong side in this election but this time they are absolutely sure they are on the right side in spite of history. Perhaps so, but such arguments come and go like those they vote for. This whole “right side of history” argument is worth a good trashing.
It’s a good time for progressives, and I have in mind..

In keeping with the journalistic tradition of looking back at the recent past, we present the top 50 stories of the year that were read on The Aquila Report site based on the number of hits. We will present the 50 stories in groups of 10 to run on five lists on consecutive days. Here are numbers 21-30.

In 2016 The Aquila Report (TAR) posted over 3,000 stories. At the end of each year we feature the top 50 stories that were read. The top story this year had over 26,900 hits.

TAR posts about 8 n..

But as he took stock of the rest of his life, Campolo decided that there was no reason an atheist couldn’t still be a minister too. Instead of comforting people with the good news of Jesus, he’d preach secular humanism, a kinder cousin of atheism. He’d help them accept that we’re all going to die, that this life is all there is and that therefore we have to make the most of our brief, glorious time on earth. And he would spread this message using the best evangelical techniques — the same ones h..

With the new year coming it’s that time of the year where we typically look back and see what happened over the past 12 months.

For the pro-life movement it was definitely one of the most interesting years ever. There were incredible highs and overwhelming defeats.

But no matter what happened in our fight to protect unborn children from the evil of abortion, the pro-life movement had one thing you could count on for the truth each and every day. That’s LifeNews.

Whether it was taking on Hilla..

Last week, The New York Times released its “Year in Pictures.” The collection is the Times’ annual attempt to survey the noteworthy moments of the year, and 2016’s month-by-month arrangement of images is, as always, evocative.

A Zika-infected mother and baby smile nose-to-nose. Black cloth drapes Justice Scalia’s Supreme Court chair. Rubble mounts in Syria. Rubble in Brussels. Rubble in Iraq. Union Jack flags wave for Brexit. Beyoncé dances. Prince dances. A swirl of dancers at the New York Cit..

It's that time of year.

(10) Marriage, Divorce, and the Church: What do the stats say, and can marriage be happy?

This post from Valentine’s Day 2014 asked Are Christian divorce rates the same, or even higher, than the rest of the population? Is a happy marriage possible?

(9) What Do White Evangelicals Owe People of Color in Trump’s America They Helped Create? (November 11, 2016)

(8) Evangelical Views of the 2016 Election: Ethics and Theology Professor on Why Trump is the Best Candidate..