The Secret Epidemic by Karl Tipple
We hear in the mass media every day about the epidemics of AIDS, drug abuse, gang violence, domestic violence, poverty, and the death and human misery that these problems cause. There is one social ill of equally damaging proportions that society has so far refused to acknowledge: The sexual abuse [...]
The Asheville Film Festival has added a second showing of its closing film “Precious” on Sunday night, after tickets to the first screening sold out.
The powerful drama will now show at 10 p.m. Sunday at the Fine Arts Theatre on Biltmore Avenue. Tickets are $9 at the Pack Place box office.
“Precious,” which took top honors [...]
Family members of five men charged in a bizarre child sex abuse case reacted with disbelief and sadness Thursday to the “unspeakable” string of alleged atrocities spanning two decades.
“It’s unspeakable. I can’t think of words that would put this in perspective. I find it repulsive if it’s true,” said Darrel Mohler, a brother of one [...]
By Glenn Sacks, M.A. and Ned Holstein, M.D.
Four Sacramento County Sheriff’s cars pulled up in front of David Woods’s house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: “Yeah, that’s fine. Put your hands behind your back.”
David said, “No, wait, she stabbed me … there’s the knife. See [...]
Oprah Winfrey’s live show about “dating violence” and Chris Brown’s alleged beating of Rihanna was one of those TV moments when Oprah becomes a nationwide town meeting, in which Winfrey uses her extraordinary outreach and influence on America to try and shed light and counsel on a cultural issue. Dedicating the hour to “all [...]
Whenever a plot emerges targeting Senator Barack Obama there is, with good reason, a collective sharp intake of breath in the United States.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 3:54AM GMT 28 Oct 2008
Four US presidents have been assassinated, while Ronald Reagan was extremely lucky to survive being shot in 1980. That unfortunate past, combined [...]
ORU settles with 2 former professors
Published: October 22, 2008
TULSA - Oral Roberts University has reached a settlement with two former professors who brought a lawsuit last year claiming they were forced out after alleging financial and ethical wrongdoing by the school’s former president and family.
The confidential settlement with Tim and Paulita Brooker came late Wednesday [...]
Televangelist’s ex-husband seeks new wife on Web
By JUANITA COUSINS – 10 hours ago
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — The ex-husband of national televangelist Juanita Bynum, who divorced after a parking lot fight between the two landed him in jail, plans to take his search for a new wife to the Internet with videos featuring dating tips and [...]
Let us talk about sex in a way that you will not hear in most churches or some homes. Sex is not dirty when done in a way to give God glory and thanksgiving for a most precious gift. Most churches and ministers are not prepared to share with you straight sex talk and in [...]
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