(1) Iran Frees Pastor Saeed Abedini after Three Years in Prison (Christianity Today)
(2) Planned Parenthood files suit against anti-abortion videos group (CNN)
The Center for Medical Progress’ David Daleiden called the lawsuit “frivolous” and a “last-ditch move of desperation.”
“Game on,” he said in a statement. “I look forward to deposing all the CEOs, medical directors, and their co-conspirators who participated in Planned Parenthood’s illegal baby body parts racket.”
Beth Parker, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California’s chief legal counsel, said Daleidan was “intent on creating a firestorm designed to discredit and destroy Planned Parenthood and end access to reproductive health care.”
(3) Pastors group behind flip of House seat (St. Charles Herald/Louisiana)
The American Renewal Project, a group that is plotting a new approach to evangelical politics with a network of 100,000 Plpastors nationwide, is taking some of the credit for the upset in House District 51 this fall. That’s where state Rep. Beryl Amedee of Houma beat out former Rep. Joe Harrison of Napoleonville by 318 votes.
(4) David Brooks Ready to Burn Ted and Rafael Cruz at the Stake, by Wallace Henley
Rather than Rafael and Ted Cruz, I find Brooks’ style sinister. I have written here previously of the sequence by which Christians are removed from the public square: caricaturization to marginalization to vilification to villainization to criminalization to elimination. Brooks, sadly, verifies my theory.
(5) Adoption picture of salvation, parents say (Baptist Press)
Nathan and Jennifer Washburn rank parenting among their greatest joys, but a desire to have children was not their main motivation in adopting. Instead, the couple who married in 2004 point to spiritual value as their main motivation for their 2010 adoption from Kazakhstan of Kara Victoria Washburn, now 5, and, in 2014 from China, Owen RenLi Washburn, 3. “It was primarily a theological motivation to adopt,” Nathan Washburn, pastor of First Baptist Church in Greenbrier, Tenn., told Baptist Press. “It’s such a great picture of our spiritual adoption in Christ.”
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