Religion & Ethics – Page 15 – Cornwall Alliance

Apr 26 2017

Christianity and the End of Ritualized Murder and Sexual Exploitation in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 26, 2017

Today we hear a lot about sex trafficking and the horrors that victims experience. The Christian church is today fighting this evil practice, but fighting sexual abuse is not a new thing for the body of Christ. Here with us today is Vijay Jayaraj, Research Associate for Developing Countries for the Cornwall Alliance for the […]

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Apr 20 2017

The Apostle Thomas and the Beginning of the Christian Church in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 20, 2017

Tradition holds that Christianity was brought to India by one of Jesus’ Apostles. It has a long and interesting history within that country.

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Apr 13 2017

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Abortion and Forced Sterilization in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 13, 2017

Over 35 million children have been aborted worldwide so far this year. Abortion numbers for India are hard to gauge because many don’t get reported, but it’s more than half-a-million babies, and could be as many as seven million. The preference for male children is strong in India, leading to sex selective abortions and significantly fewer female children. This has

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Feb 10 2017

Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science

By Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. / February 10, 2017

As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human health and the natural environment. We should explore new alternative energy sources, always seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms. We should prioritize providing electricity for the 1.2 billion people who don’t

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Feb 7 2017

Where does “Follow the Money” Lead?

By E. Calvin Beisner / February 7, 2017

From time to time people attack the Cornwall Alliance’s credibility by claiming we’re “in the pocket of Big Oil” or of the fossil fuel industry in general—the old “follow the money” attack. What’s our answer? We’ve never received a penny, so far as we can identify, from any large oil, gas, coal, or other corporation

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Feb 6 2017

Has NOAA’s “Pausebuster” Been Busted?

By E. Calvin Beisner / February 6, 2017

“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.”—Proverbs 18:17 Major news outlets and the climate change-focused blogosphere erupted over the last few days with the The Daily Mail’s publication February 4 of David Rose’s “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming

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Feb 6 2017

Sierra Club pushing abortion as population control to ‘save the environment’

By Mary Kay Barton / February 6, 2017

FOX News host Tucker Carlson interviewed the Sierra Club’s Executive Director, Michael Brune, on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Feb 2, 2017. Carlson, a former Sierra Club member himself, dove right into asking Brune the tough questions. Puzzled by some of the Sierra Club’s recent position statements on such varied topics as President Trump’s border wall, the

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Feb 2 2017

Can the Religious Right—and Left—Be Saved?

By E. Calvin Beisner / February 2, 2017

The 2016 Presidential election left lots of people on lots of sides (not just two!) bruised and, sad to say, many friendships torn, some perhaps beyond repair but by the grace of God. For both religious political conservatives and religious political liberals—whether evangelicals or mainline Protestants or Roman Catholics or Mormons or Jews—the two leading

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Jan 26 2017

Climate Change, Caring for Creation, and Evangelicals

By E. Calvin Beisner / January 26, 2017

Last year Mitchell Hescox, CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, teamed up with television meteorologist Paul Douglas to write Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment (Bethany House). Their hearts are in the right place, but their understanding of global climate-change science is seriously deficient, and the result could

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Jan 2 2017

Global Warming Reduces Human Death Rates

By E. Calvin Beisner / January 2, 2017

No contest on this one. Cold weather leads directly or indirectly to 17 times as many excess human deaths as hot weather. What’s surprising is that even the New York Times reported this, and prominently. In the December 19, 2016, issue, Jane Brody wrote: Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of

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