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Pastor Harry Thomas, co-founder of Creation Fest, listens to a speaker in this file photo from 2011. Photo courtesy of LNP Media Group
Need to know: Monday, December 11, 2017
Founder of nation’s largest Christian music festival charged with child molestation
Harry Thomas, founder of the Creation Festival, has been “indefinitely suspended” from leadership of the festival and his church.
Congressional Democrats left out of White House Hanukkah party
The move injected a partisan tinge into a normally bipartisan celebration at the White House. (Subscription may be required.)
German law takes initiative in countering hate speech on social media
Germany will impose fines for any major online service that fails to take down illegal content — religious or otherwise — within days of a complaint.
Evangelical Alabamans: Don’t vote for Moore, even if his Christian presuppositions are correct
Kent Van Til writes that his uncle Cornelius van Til, the originator of presuppositional apologetics, would not have endorsed extending them to a voting mandate.
Their family and friends call the media ‘fake news.’ But these students want to be journalists
Journalism students at the prominent conservative evangelical school are on a quest to balance Christian truth with journalistic truth. (Subscription may be required.)
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Trump is losing (some) white evangelicals
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