Wednesday, July 15, 2015

• Planned Parenthood defense unfounded, CMP says

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Planned Parenthood is lying in defense of its dispensation of aborted fetal parts through its nearly 70 U.S. clinics, said a nonprofit medical watchdog group that has conducted an undercover investigation of the abortion provider. Read More

• Planned Parenthood tops Twitter trends

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Christians took to social media en masse when news broke Tuesday (July 14) that Planned Parenthood allegedly sold baby parts gained through partial birth abortions.

  The hashtag #PlannedParenthood trended in the top three nationally July 14, social media expert Marty Duren said, with the online analytics site Topsy.com noting more than 57,000 tweets using the hashtag between Tuesday morning and midday Wednesday. That total does not include tweets on the same subject that did not employ the hashtag. Read More

• GuideStone loses on abortion mandate

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- GuideStone Financial Resources and the ministries it serves must abide by the Obama administration's abortion/contraception mandate or pay crushing fines, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday (July 14). Read More

• WORLDVIEW: Mission revolutionary Jim Slack

  by Erich Bridges, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- How can God use one faithful life to change the world?

  Consider Jim Slack, 77.

  He retired from the International Mission Board in June after 50 years as a missionary, missiologist, strategist, researcher, ethnographer, teacher -- and passionate advocate for unreached peoples, especially oral learners who need God's Word in forms they can understand. Read More

• Sturgis volunteers ready for more miracles of faith

  by Victor Lee, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  BP file photo

  STURGIS, S.D. (BP) -- Amid thousands of bikers, often with debauchery nearby, Southern Baptist volunteers will share their redemption in Jesus during the 75th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Aug. 3-8 in South Dakota.

  Sturgis, population 6,000 for 358 days a year, will swell to hundreds of thousands for the milestone, drawing every kind of person, from the unique to the dangerous. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Planned Parenthood & the logic of abortion on demand

  by C. Ben Mitchell, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  C. Ben Mitchell examines the abortion-on-demand "logic" that leads to the sale of body parts of aborted babies. "A living human being is not merely a bundle of tissues," Mitchell, of Union University, notes, "but a person with a right to life, a right not to be harmed, especially not to be killed." Read More