May 7 – May 13

Here are your top 5 interesting, must-know news articles from the past week. Enjoy!

"As the saying goes—You win some; you lose some. It’s hard to imagine a world without compromise and a need to find a middle ground. But at what point does the message itself become compromised and watered down? Is it when tolerance is administered in the wrong way? Or when we give up our identity to please the majority? Either way, we must find patience in the process."

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// Trying Patience

In a world where we have instant access to all of our wants and needs, we would think impatience as a modern problem, but this is not so.  Tertullianus, born around AD 160 was a prolific author who thought patience is a characteristic of God. Writer, James Tonkowich encourages Christians that this is something that should be remembered, explaining that Christians should patiently learn from God who is both willing and exceedingly patient to teach His children. Original article.

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// Minister, once gay, aims to heal evangelical rift

Fish On The Other Side (FOTOS) is a ministry that seeks to heal the rift between gays and evangelical Christians. Founder of FOTOS, Bill Henson, was convicted of his homosexuality as sin while in a gay relationship. His hope is to welcome gays into the church community without the condition of changing them. Although met with criticism, supporter Alan Chambers says, “God doesn't want someone's homosexuality, He wants their heart, and when He has their heart, He can do anything with them." Original article.

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// Cross taken, vets offended - reward offered

Two weeks after being saved by a Supreme Court ruling, the cross at the Mojave Desert War Memorial has been stolen.  Late Sunday night, vandals destroyed, ripped down, and carried the cross that had stood since 1934 as a memorial to fallen veterans of foreign wars.  Under a court order, it was to have been torn down, but the Supreme Court recently saved it. There is a $25,000 reward for any information. Original article.

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// Is the U.S. Flag Offensive?

On Cinco de Mayo, two students at a California High School were approached by their vice principal, asking them to take off their American flag bandanas and turn their Stars and Stripes-bearing t-shirts inside out. The reasoning behind this demand was simply that some Mexican-American students felt disrespected by these boys’ gestures. Christian Post’s guest columnist, Chuck Colson, comments how tolerance of one’s right to free speech has been distorted to one’s forced compliance of the other’s beliefs. Original article.

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// Evangelicals Call for Earned Citizenship for Immigrants, Not Amnesty

Evangelical leaders are calling for border control and immigration reform that would allow for undocumented people to receive earned citizenship and “come out of the shadows.”  The three paths they would take are: earned legal citizenship or legal residency, legal guest-worker status, or deportation if found to be a felon.  The leaders explain neither amnesty nor mass deportation is a solution, but rather an earned pathway to citizenship would be just and fair. Original article.

Special thanks to contributing writer, Grace Kwon.

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