Roberto Rivera

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  Sep 22, 2019

  Religious freedom for wedding invite designers

  Last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued an important decision in Brush & Nib v. City of Phoenix, another case located squarely at the intersection of religious freedom and the new sexual orthodoxy.

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  Sep 19, 2019

  A call to the Church to help those struggling with ideas of suicide

  In the fog of questions and grief, one thing is clear: Neither Christians nor Christian pastors are immune from the suicide epidemic that’s sweeping our country.

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  Sep 4, 2019

  How unthinkable became unquestionable

  Anyone else dizzy by how quickly some things went from being unthinkable to unquestionable?

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  Aug 28, 2019

  The declining respect for clergy

  My pastor recently told me that 25 years ago, the first person that people would contact when they faced a marriage crisis was their pastor. Ten years ago, he continued, it was their counselor or psychiatrist. Today, it’s their lawyers.

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  Aug 27, 2019

  A Jewish doctor says 'no' to assisted suicide

  While it would be far worse for New Jersey to coerce doctors to kill against their conscience, does honoring a patient’s request and making a referral mean one is still complicit in his or her death?

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  Aug 26, 2019

  CNN and 586 BC: More evidence of the Bible’s historicity

  Many scholars have long assumed that the stories of Jerusalem’s rise and subsequent destruction were over-inflated, self-serving myths intended to serve theological and political purposes.

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  Aug 11, 2019

  Asteroid 2019OK’s near miss rocks scientism

  On July 25th, the 100-meter wide piece of rock passed within 73,000 kilometers of Earth. To put that distance in perspective, the moon is 384,000 kilometers from Earth.

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  Aug 6, 2019

  India's invisible girls

  Until recently, Uttarkashi in northern India was noted primarily for its beautiful scenery and Hindu temples.

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  Aug 5, 2019

  Archaeology, genetics confirm Bible story of Philistines' origins

  Between 1997 and 2016, researchers at an excavation near Ashkelon in Israel examined the remains of more than one hundred humans, remains that dated from the 12th to 6th centuries before Christ.

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  Jul 28, 2019

  Transhumanism: Merging men and machines

  One of the most repeated themes of science fiction movies is humans merging with or being replaced by machines. Entire movie franchises are built around these ideas, such as “The Matrix” and “The Terminator.”