Alex Murashko

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  • Doctors File Legal Brief; 20-Week-Old Babies Feel Pain During Abortion

    Doctors File Legal Brief; 20-Week-Old Babies Feel Pain During Abortion

    A doctors group that supports an Arizona law restricting non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks filed a legal brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit showing that babies feel pain during an abortion as early as the same amount of weeks into a pregnancy.

  • 'Sacred-Secular Divide' Hinders Christians From Impacting Culture, Says Lecrae

    'Sacred-Secular Divide' Hinders Christians From Impacting Culture, Says Lecrae

    Christian hip-hop star Lecrae (Lecrae Moore) set his musical artist persona aside during a leadership conference recently to talk about the subject of engaging American culture in a non-typical, yet Christian way in order to further the Gospel.

  • Mark Driscoll: What Does It Mean to Have an Identity 'in Christ?'

    Mark Driscoll: What Does It Mean to Have an Identity 'in Christ?'

    Author and pastor Mark Driscoll gave a glimpse into the subject of his next book by discussing what it means for a Christian to have an identity "in Christ" while speaking during the closing session of a two-day leadership conference.

  • Greg Laurie: 'Main Event' at Every Church Should Be Preaching God's Word

    Greg Laurie: 'Main Event' at Every Church Should Be Preaching God's Word

    Speaking on the subject of preaching about Jesus at a leadership conference in Southern California, evangelist and pastor Greg Laurie said he is concerned that churches that are moving away from making sermons the focal point of a worship service are not presenting the full Gospel.

  • What's the Message in Tim Tebow's '666' Tweet?

    What's the Message in Tim Tebow's '666' Tweet?

    Like it has been for much of Tim Tebow's career, it was all about the numbers heading into the N.Y. Jets game against the Houston Texans on the 666th edition of Monday Night Football.

  • R12 Conference: Mark Driscoll on Why He Chose Rick Warren, Other Speakers

    R12 Conference: Mark Driscoll on Why He Chose Rick Warren, Other Speakers

    In promoting a two-day conference featuring an all-star lineup of some of the most influential Christian leaders in the U.S., Resurgence ministry founder Mark Driscoll explains why he chose renowned author and pastor Rick Warren as one of the eight speakers scheduled.

  • TD Jakes to Women: Belief in God and Oneself Are Critical

    TD Jakes to Women: Belief in God and Oneself Are Critical

    Before a crowd of 25,000 women at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Bishop T.D. Jakes opened up the first day of his annual "Woman, Thou Art Loosed!" conference by saying that it is important that a faith in God be coupled with a belief in oneself.

  • Giving Out Drinking Water in Phoenix Now OK After Christian's Act of Kindness

    Phoenix city council members struck down an ordinance on Wednesday that prohibited people from handing out free drinking water in public. The issue arose in the wake of a religious freedom law group's defense of Dana Crow-Smith, a Phoenix resident who was told she could not hand out the bottles of cold water on a city sidewalk during a "First Friday" festival.

  • Atheists Ask Military to Drop 'Religious Expressions' in Suicide Prevention Briefings

    Atheists Ask Military to Drop 'Religious Expressions' in Suicide Prevention Briefings

    The leader of a chaplains alliance group says he hopes the U.S. military will dismiss an atheist group's request to eliminate "personal religious expressions" during a long-standing suicide prevention program that includes chaplains counseling service members.

  • What Christians Tweeted During Presidential Debate

    What Christians Tweeted During Presidential Debate

    While an estimated 60 million people turned to the TV to watch the presidential debate Wednesday night, millions more joined the live water cooler conversation on Twitter. In the Christian community, the best known Christian leaders appeared to mostly stay away from tweeting their thoughts on the debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.