Robertson and the Reagan Gap

Review of Time magazine article by Garry Wills An editorial columnist for Time magazine said presidential candidate Pat Robertson is striking a chord in the hearts of the American people – and that political analysts are making a serious mistake…

Torch for Gospel

Thousands of young Christians from all over the world will be taking part in a marathon that will carry lighted torches to the far corners of the earth. The event, called “Target 2000: Great Commission Torch Run,” will see relay…

Breaking the Power of the Narcotics Trade

When Panamanian military strongman Manuel Noriega was indicted in February by U.S. officials on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering, we found ourselves once again facing the ugly realities of the illegal narcotics trade in America. It seems…

Reformation of the Nations

By Peter J. Leithart All over the world, governments are busily engaged in various kinds and degrees of reform. South Africa has repealed many of the “petty apartheid” laws that once restricted black advancement and maintained white supremacy. Mikhail Gorbachev’s…

Cocaine use falls

Cocaine use fell by 20 percent in 1987 among high school seniors, and other illicit drugs including marijuana continued a seven year decline among the same age group, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) annual…

Poll: 1960s Generation More Religious than National Average

Gainesville, FL (FR) – Youths during the ’60s anti-establishment period are today more religious than the national average, according to a poll conducted by Better Homes and Gardens. It was the magazine’s first poll on religion which garnered 80,000 respons…

Evangelism on Black History Week

EAST LANSING, MI (FR) – Black History Week on the Michigan State University this year was not the usual rehash of the painful rift of prejudice between the blacks and whites. Instead, several black students heard a different message on…

Parent sued by teacher for calling classes "occultic"

WASHINGTON, D.C. (FR) —The mother of a 6th grade student was sued for slander by a Colorado school teacher for calling curriculum “occultic.” Sandy Montoya was one of three parents who complained to the Adams County, Colorado, School District Number…

Court Upholds Rutherford Institute Case

Reiterating that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech … at the schoolhouse gate,” a U.S. district court on December 4, l987, ordered Pennsylvania school officials to allow three students to distribute a religious newspaper in…

Valedictorian Suing School Officials for Censoring Speech

MOSS BLUFF, LA. (EP) – A Louisiana high school graduate is suing her local school officials for censoring her valedictory speech at commencement. Angela Kay Guidry, who was graduated from Sam Houston High School here in May, says her principal’s…