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Clotheslines with billowing linens and long dresses are a common sight on the off-grid farms of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, home to the nation’s largest Amish settlement. For many tourists they’re as iconic a part of Amish Country’s bucolic scenery as the rural lanes and wooden bridges. But for two days in late April, a clothesline with a different purpose was strung in a small indoor exhibit here. Hanging from it were 13 outfits representing the trauma of sexual assault suffered by members of the Amish, Mennonite and similar groups, a reminder that the modest attire they require, particularly of women...

Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, All are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.

It's a sad, sad reality that most Christians simply don't care about the suffering of preborn babies. See it for yourself in this footage that was captured at the Church of the Brethren 2015 Conference. When will you start being a voice for your preborn neighbors? www.AbolishHumanAbortion.com www.TampaAHA.com VIDEO ONLY ON LINK

Human warriors have long spoken of the bonds forged in combat and of becoming a "band of brothers." The fact that some of those fellow soldiers are made of metal has not discouraged human feelings toward them. Thousands of robots now fight with humans on modern battlefields that resemble scenes from science fiction movies such as "Terminator Salvation." But the real world poses a more complex situation than humans versus robots, and has added new twists to the psychology of war. "One of the psychologically interesting things is that these systems aren't designed to promote intimacy, and yet we're seeing...

Cyrus Scofield thought that "Jesus' brethren" were not Mary the Virgin's children, but her nieces and nephews. That's exactly what the Catholic Church teaches. Folks, this Scofield note has always caught my attention:Six Marys are to be distinguished in the N.T.: (1) the mother of Jesus; by the context. (2) Mary Magdaalways clearly identified lene, a woman of Magdala, " out of whom went seven demons" Luke 8:2 She is never mentioned apart from the identifying word "Magdalene." (3) The mother of James (called "the less," Mark 15:40) and Joses, the apostles. A comparison of ; John 19:25; Matthew 27:56;...

Who is David Cloud, one may ask? He is the visible leader of Way of Life Ministries, a literature and (ostensibly) preaching ministry for Independent, Fundamental, KJV-only Baptists. OK, so that's not very important, but my relationship with David Cloud is long and complex. The reason I'm bothering to address him at all might not be readily apparent to any thinking individual, since he's mostly irrelevant to almost everybody on the face of the earth, but it will become apparent as I continue. Allow me to recount my history with David Cloud. When I first became a Christian, way back...

STEPHEN THORNE Canadian Press Sunday, April 20, 2003 CREDIT: (CP /Stephen Thorne)   Canadian soldiers listen to a safety briefing prior to embarking on a live-fire exercise. The soldiers have watched developments in Iraq with longing, bitterness and disappointment. (CP /Stephen Thorne)   ADVERTISEMENT WAINWRIGHT, Alta. (CP) - Canadian soldiers have watched with longing, bitterness and disappointment as their American and British bretheren fought the Iraq war on television. More than 4,000 troops from across Canada are in the midst of a six-week, $35-million exercise in the rolling, barren prairie of eastern Alberta - their biggest in more than a...

Brethren to vote on gay minister ousterCopyright 2002 Houston Chronicle News Services Officials in the Church of the Brethren will meet next month to review the case of a gay minister who could be in danger of being removed from the clergy. Matthew Smucker, 34, was ordained in June in Kalamazoo, Mich. But delegates at the denomination's annual conference voted by a two-thirds margin to reaffirm a 1983 policy against actively homosexual clergy. Smucker told the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette he is saddened but "I plan to keep walking on this journey as far as I can." Officials in the denomination's...