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Emerging Women Blog Archive Female Genital Mutilation

Emerging Women May 9, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Julie Clawson is disturbed by a recent recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics that U.S. pediatricians be allowed to perform "ritual genital cutting" of young females.

Va. minister launching portable housing for aging relatives

The Washington Post May 6, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: The Rev. Kenneth Dupin, who leads a small Methodist church here, has a vision: As America grows older, its aging adults could avoid a jarring move to the nursing home by living in small, specially equipped, temporary shelters close to relatives.

Bloggers Target Seminary President

Christianity Today May 5, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Liberty University's board of directors has declined to take public action against Ergun Caner, president of the university seminary, as bloggers raise doubts about Caner's account of his childhood as a Muslim.

Lifestyle, ergun caner, Liberty University, bloggers, Muslims, ethics

Free Small Church Webinar Thurs, May 6, 11 AM

Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor May 5, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Free small church video webinar, The Strengths of a Small Church, Thursday, May 6, 11 am.

Lifestyle, small church, webinar, brandon o'brien, Chuck Warnock, strategically small churches

The U.S. Youth Sex Trade

Fuller Youth Institute May 3, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Despite the general rise in awareness of the global slave trade the past few years, trafficking of teenagers within the U.S. is also getting worse, according to a report in Christianity Today.

Churches respond as storms pummel Southeast

UMC.org May 3, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Churches in Nashville provide care and shelter to those affected by the flooding in Tennessee this past week.

Lifestyle, Nashville, floods, Disaster Relief, church relief

Bishop of Durham will be 'greatly missed'

Christian Today Apr 28, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: N. T. Wright will retire as the Anglican Bishop of Durham to take a teaching and research post at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Noah's Ark remains 'discovered' up a mountain in Turkey

Mail Online Apr 28, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it,' said Yeung Wing-cheung, a filmmaker working with the 15-strong team of fundamentalist Christians exploring the Turkish mountain.

Lifestyle, religion, noah's ark, archaeology, Bible, great flood

Survey: Obama support down among Christians

Christian Today Feb 23, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: US President Obama’s support among born-again Christians has decreased after a year in office, a new survey shows.

Lifestyle, religion, Politics, Obama, evangelicals, barna, survey

Churches attacked as trouble brews over Jesus picture row

Christian Today Feb 23, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Two churches have been burnt to the ground and Christians attacked after tension erupted on Saturday over the publication of an offensive poster of Jesus Christ in an in Batala, Punjab, in India.

Lifestyle, pluralism, religion, india, multiculturalism, Christianity, hindu, Muslim