Dial-A-Porn Stopped

Telephone executives at AT&T began “promotion compensation” services – otherwise known as “900 numbers” – several years ago as a marketing ploy to allow companies to run pre-recorded messages for customers. Stock market reports, sports information, and even r…

President Reagan Pushes Anti-pornography package

WASHINGTON, D.C. (FR) – President Ronald Reagan recently introduced a package of anti-pornography legislation to Congress called the “Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1987.” The bill’s two-fold purpose is to update the federal law to take into ac…

Report from Russia's Churches

James Stark, an Orthodox Christian of Russian descent who speaks fluent Russian, visited churches in several cities in the Soviet Union recently. He talked with a large cross-section of the Orthodox Christian community on how they viewed the present situation…

Mikhail Gorbachev - TIME Magazine's Man of the Year

Man of the Year. The title seems to ring with dignity, courage, and nobility of purpose … the most outstanding man of 1987. One who has not only done great things for mankind, but also for God and country. A…

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World

What is new about “Perestroika?” The 254-page internationally distributed book is the first widely publicized “manifesto” that a Soviet leader has ever written. Although it contains hard-line communist ideas dressed in Western jargon, and is riddled with justification for pa…

1988 - A New Biblical Generation

A biblical generation is defined as a forty year time period. If we look at recent American history, it is easy to see where these generations are delineated. Around 1908, the high point of the Azusa Street Revival, God began…

The Conquering Power of Christianity - Part I

When the prophet Isaiah foretold the advent of the Messiah centuries before His birth, he proclaimed, “of the increase of His government and of peace there will be no end.” Historic Christianity, the kind practiced by the early Church and…

Bill Bennet says Bible should be taught in schools

WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) – Knowledge of the Bible needs to be stressed in schools, Education Secretary William Bennett said November 30, while addressing a conference of the American Enterprise Institute, which sponsored a day long panel “The Spirit of the…

Communist Party opts out of 1988 presidential race

The Communist Party of the U.S.A. (CPUSA), which has participated in every presidential election since 1968, has announced that it will not field a candidate in the 1988 race because “a very undemocratic electoral system” is “closed to minority party…

The Great Escaping Scoop - or - How to Evade the Story of the Century

News Service 2000 Commentary by David Aikman When an obscure peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, offered himself as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976, the only surprising part of his Renaissance-style resume (farmer, businessman, nuclear…