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Using New Media technology for missions is catching on!

YWAM founder's talk about the use of Internet Evangelism as God's gift to reach the world today (see Episode 19!) Click here to get your own player. Please do pray God would continue to meet our needs, make our work effective and send other laborers to help us!

"Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed" (Movie Review)

Here's a review of the movie "Expelled" which I submitted for the Orlando Sentinel last month. (It was rejected) I was trying to be as single-minded as I was capable of, focusing tightly on the concept to which the film also tries adhere, that true academic freedom would demand that students be able to evaluate honest portrayals of each idea. Currently, the way the law is being interpreted, that is not possible. Scopes and Darwin, it appears, lived in an era of more academic freedom than is possible today. In 1925, the famous " Scopes Monkey Trial ," in Dayton, TN, was about whether a teacher violated what was then accepted law in Tennessee--that no theory should be taught by a state-supported school which denied Biblical Creationism and substituted instead that man descended from a lower order of animals. At the time, the American Civil Liberties Union advertised in the local newspapers for a willing teacher to violate and challenge this law in court. John Scop