Death toll rises to 3600 in Nepal earthquake; Hillary Thinks She Is Bigger Than God...more

Abortionist Who Did Over 40,000 Abortions Becomes a Pro-Life Activist   ...As I pull out the mess, thinking it will be bone fragments I lay it on the cloth, I look, and I see a human heart, contracting and expanding and beating, beating, beating. I thought I would go mad. I can see that the heartbeat is slowing, ever more slowly, and more slowly still, until it finally stops completely. Nobody could’ve seen what I had seen with my very own eyes, and be more convinced than I was — I had killed a human being...

Hillary Thinks She Is Bigger Than God ...: “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed"...

Why Multiple Generations of Families Choose to Live Together and Why It’s Not Such a Bad Idea ...A recent University of Oxford study found that teenagers are happier when grandparents are involved in their upbringing. The study, which followed over 1,500 school-age kids in the U.K., reported that teens who spent more quality time with a grandparent had fewer emotional and behavioral problems than their peers. They were also better prepared to handle adversities such as a divorce, a death in the family or a school bullying incident. The same study has been replicated in Israel, Malaysia and South Africa with similar results. A Boston College study found that both adult grandchildren and their grandparents showed fewer symptoms of depression if they maintained an “emotionally close relationship.”...

No, Hanging Out With Your Friends is Not the Church  
Who doesn’t like getting together for a fun dinner with friends and sharing about life? What’s not to love about having deep conversations about spiritual truths with those close to you?

Those things are great and we should do more of them, but—I’m sorry to break this to you—they aren’t church.

Increasingly, I see younger evangelicals (like the one in this Relevant blog post) wondering if they can call their spiritual hang outs with friends a congregation. They are exploring the question: What is church?...

Where the Left and Islam Intersect ...Curious how the godless left and Islam share a critical aim. They both wish to subjugate infidels, though how infidel is defined differs. But who the infidels are isn’t. We are, of course, the infidels. We of western virtues and values. We who hold to Judeo-Christian beliefs. We’re obstacles to glorious futures for both. Both want us consigned to dhimmitude. Yes, dhimmitude. That’s second class status, with tribute being paid for the privilege.

Marked differences and tensions exist between the left and Islam, to be sure. But is the left using Islam for its ends, and Islam -- for the time being -- willingly being used?...

Death toll rises to 3600 in Nepal earthquake 
With international aid beginning to flow but desperation still rising, rescue crews in Nepal expanded helicopter searches Monday into remote villages believed to be the worst hit from a massive earthquake that’s already claimed more than 3,600 lives.

The flights highlighted worries that the death toll could rise from Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude quake that flattened densely populated areas near Kathmandu, toppled historical monuments and buried Everest base camp with a deadly avalanche of snow and jagged ice...

Race against death: Rescuers struggle to reach remote Nepal villages as death toll rises