Here's a very disturbing example of taking the Lord's name in vain.:

Kony has blended and twisted elements of Christianity, Islam, and African witchcraft into a demonic cult of savagery. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda has enlisted (read abducted) as many as 50,000 children.

This article is NOT for children.

The Bush administration has placed the LRA on tier two of its Terrorist Exclusion List, which means the LRA is judged not to be a threat to U.S. interests.

Rory Anderson, senior Africa policy adviser for World Vision says there is "...no significant leadership to move the issue to the point where there are congressional hearings..."

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Michael Oruni, director of Uganda's Children of War Rehabilitation Center, told CT he was urging Christians to get involved: "Imagine your own child taken away, being raped as your family is killed in front of your eyes. If it were you, what would you feel like?

"Kids in Uganda—kids just like yours—are taken every night and enslaved, raped, mutilated, murdered. You can make a difference. Talk to your government. Help us."

Nigel Cameron is President of the Institute on Biotechnology and Human Future. In his commentary this week on Christianity Today's website, he addresses the question of the bioethics of Bethlehem. What happened nine months before the manger?

Here's a couple clips:

God took human form; and he took it not simply as a baby, but as the tiniest of all human beings, a mere biological speck, so small and so undeveloped that it could be mistaken for a laboratory artifact, a research specimen, an object for human experimentation. But this speck was God; this complete genetic human organism, in its primitive and undeveloped form, was so much "one of us" as to bear the existence of the Creator. He dignified humanity by taking the form of this creature he had made in his image; and he did it at the most inauspicious and feeble point in the human life story. At the heart of the Christmas celebration lies the fact of all facts, that God became a zygote...

It is important to realize that there are several powerful arguments against using human embryos for research... We believe that all human beings are made in the image of God. We believe that Jesus Christ was God taking human form for himself. And we believe that we started right at the beginning—that incarnation took place in embryo.

Yesterday, ABC News reported on "hard-core" Christian teens. From "Fear Factor" youth ministries to skateboarding, rock festivals, and tattoes and piercings, is Jesus just another fad?

Is Jesus "way cool"? Here's a clip:

Chanon Ross is a youth minister in Naperville, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, who recently wrote an article called "Jesus Is Not Cool." He says that all the focus on fun and games waters down the real message — and hard work — of following a faith.

While many youth ministries organize trips to Christian music festivals to attract more kids, Ross does not.

"It confuses what it means to follow Jesus. Are you passionate about loving your enemies, or are you really passionate about what you felt at the rock concert?" he said.

Ross also complains that "cool" youth ministries based on going to rock concerts and mission trips is making religion a "commodity-driven thing" with youth as their consumers.

"These concerts are moneymaking events," Ross said. "There's a drive to market Jesus as cool, make Jesus a rock star … then you can get the kids interested."

Are we missing something?