UK: Woman struck off list of foster carers after Muslim girl in her care converts to Christianity

February 9, 2009

Daniel Blake, Christian Today

Cranmer: ‘It is telling that council officers attempted to persuade the girl to reconsider her decision, and to re-embrace Islam.’

‘Always check your child’s homework’

February 7, 2009

Carlos Whittakermommy

New film Coraline ‘acknowledges that real life can be creepy, spooky and full of darkness’

February 6, 2009

Brandon Fibbs, Christianity Today Movies


VeggieTales Bible will help ‘get your kids to make the leap from books of Bible stories or children’s Bibles to the real thing’

February 5, 2009

Paul O’Donnell, Idol Chatter

Amazon: VeggieTales Bible (Big Idea Books® / VeggieTales®)

San Damiano Foundation: ‘Sam and Esther’

February 3, 2009

WARNING – This video will disturb some viewers:


(HT: Anne Jackson)

New VeggieTales video ‘requires more patience than it teaches’

January 28, 2009

abeandamazingpromisePaul O’Donnell (Idol Chatter) finds Abe and the Amazing Promise ‘inspiring’ but not ‘inspired’

Mothers concerned over Mattel doll that whispers, ‘Islam is the light’

January 28, 2009

Hussein Rashid, Religion Dispatches (HT: Idol Chatter)

Veggie Tales’ Abe and the Amazing Promise, out Feb. 10

January 15, 2009

(HT: Dena Ross, Idol Chatter)

Post Christmas Playtime Car Track Looping Awesomeness

January 1, 2009

Courtesy of Tony Steward

Car Track Loop Post Christmas Awesomeness from Tony Steward on Vimeo.

Desperaux ‘noticeably different from a lot of other recent family flicks’

December 30, 2008

Josh Hurst, Christianity Today Movies

‘Mutilated Christian girl, 10, forgives attackers’

December 22, 2008

A story from WorldNet Daily (HT: Gene Veith):

“Hindu extremists may have burned a 10-year-old Christian girl’s face, inflicted shrapnel wounds on 40 percent of her body and forced her family to hide in a forest and flee to a refugee camp in Orissa, India, but her plight hasn’t shaken her faith and thankfulness to God this season …”

Read the entire story.

‘In Defense of Santa Claus’

December 22, 2008

At Boundless, Candice Watters reflects on a Wall Street Journal article by Tony Woodlief about the benefits that come from preserving a mystical, fictional concept like Santa Claus in our homes:

“You may be thinking the links between Santa, Darwin and Jesus a bit flimsy or hokey, but trust me, they’re there …”

Santa delivers …

December 10, 2008

Awesome!:

“Reading is for Boys”

December 5, 2008

The first in a series of posts on encouraging boys to read, by Jeff Robinson, is up at the Gender Blog:

“I am thankful for a father who told me at a young age: ‘Son, you’re not much of a man if you don’t read good books and learn from them …’”

Adopting HIV-positive children

December 3, 2008

A video about families that have adopted children with HIV–and how you can do the same (HT: Zach Nielsen >> ABBA Fund blog).

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