AFA Journal offers an issue-by-issue voter’s guide that can be downloaded and printed. Includes the candidates’ positions on pro-life issues, the homosexual agenda, immigration, the economy and more.

 “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” That’s the famous opening for the long-running NBC show Saturday Night Live (SNL), delivered as the comic punchline to the show’s opening skit.

A few weeks ago I watched a vintage Billy Graham sermon from the 1950s that aired on television. I said to a friend who was with me that I rarely hear the Gospel articulated today as clearly as we did through this amazing evangelist. A few days later, for my birthday, my buddy sent me three recorded Graham sermons on DVD.

 Leaders in the Roman Catholic Church are grappling with the liberal attitudes toward sexuality among today’s teens and college students. For example, a survey among 14- to 24-year-olds in Australia revealed that 77% believe the church is out of touch.

 The state of South Dakota and Planned Parenthood (PP) have been battling in court over the state’s informed consent law. The law requires doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that it will “terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” and they could face serious medical issues.

 Cincinnati area hotels say Christian guests are leaving a positive impression on area hotels. “Creation Museum guests are very different from our other leisure guests,” Karen Bennett told the northern Kentucky museum personnel. Bennett is director of sales at a Country Inn and Suites.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is actively working to foil the campaign to ban same-sex “marriage” in California.

Audio Bibles are reaching remote tribes in the Brazilian rainforest. In fact, Brazil  has 258 tribes, and almost as many different languages – 235.  More than 90 of these tribes are cut off from the outside world, living deep in the rainforest and firmly protected by the Brazilian government.  Out of these 258 tribes, only 20 have strong, indigenous church leadership.

 How do people outside the church view those inside it? If you’re talking about Americans between the ages of 16 and 29, the answer is, “Not favorably.”

 A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling in late July that declared unconstitutional a 1998 law crafted to protect children from pornography on the Internet.

It began to take shape with sticky notes and a blank wall covered by birch paper as brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick started conceptualizing Fireproof, the third film from Sherwood Pictures, the moviemaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia.

 McDonald’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters was the backdrop for a July 16 press conference at which conservative groups led by AFA announced a boycott of the hamburger giant. The press conference included Illinois Family Institute, AFA of Pennsylvania, Liberty Council, Culture Campaign and Americans for Truth.

 Adopt Our Troops in Prayer (AOT), a segment of the Presidential Prayer Team, was born after the start of the War on Terror. The Prayer Team, dedicated to praying for the president, started the initiative to encourage people to pray for the troops.

 A home-schooling advocate said a recent case in which half the students in a big city school district failed a test after being provided the answers is just one example of a public school failing miserably at educating students.

 Apple Computer’s online music store is now offering more than the standard fare of podcasts about cars, music and sports. iTunes now has sexually-oriented audio material, which can be accessed and downloaded by anyone.

 According to pro-family advocates, Christians should get used to legal harassment such as the lawsuit a homosexual activist recently filed against two Bible publishers.

 The recent announcement of a British baby conceived through in vitro fertilization and guaranteed to be free of breast cancer marks a new turn in human reproduction.

 The adventure of Nim’s Island is  available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It’s a fun, yet quirky, story of a young girl, Nim, and her father who live on a secluded island and are befriended by animals.

 Prior to the Olympics August 8 opening in Beijing, Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) and the China Aid Association were asking Christians to wear wristbands that say “Pray for China.” VOM spokesman Todd Nettleton says the communist Chinese government has stepped up efforts to silence Christians and other dissidents.

The Parents Television Council (PTC) has criticized a July 21 ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fine given to CBS for an incident during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.

 Last fall more than 3 million students in all 50 states and 20 nations participated in See You at the Pole (SYATP), an annual prayer event at which students meet to pray for their schools and the new school year.

 The National Institutes of Health reported that teenage pregnancies (15-17-year-olds) are on the rise for the first time since 1991. But federal experts said not enough data were collected to determine if this is a trend.

Last year, the Texas Legislature passed a law allowing Bible courses to be offered as an elective by public school districts. Recently the State Board of Education gave final approval to the course which focuses on the history and literature of the Bible.

 AFA Journal asked four notable Christians to give us their top reasons why believers should get active in the upcoming November elections by being informed about the candidates, the issues, and especially, by voting.

Nearly 14,000 women had abortions in 2007 in Minnesota, and over 5,000, or 40%, cited financial concerns as a reason for their abortion, according to the state’s annual abortion report.

When I heard about Miley Cyrus – pop-princess-turned-nude-model – I wasn’t surprised. Though Cyrus is a professing Christian, something like her Vanity Fair photo shoot fiasco (in which she held a bed sheet to her chest, exposing a bare side and back) seemed somehow inevitable.