"'Reading this past week about the allegations of sexual abuse was very difficult,' he said. 'I know it is for anyone. But it is very personal for me because I was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.'"

Read more: Ted Olsen, Gleanings, Christianity Today

"There was absolutely nothing to do. The phones went dead. I sat down in a corner and waited. I knew people were being killed. I had no idea if my house or the houses of my friends were going up. The reports that were coming in over the tv were too confusing to tell. I did know that people I knew, had known all my life, were in grave danger."

Read more: Rebecca Hamilton, Public Catholic, Patheos

"If the site is to be believed, Exodus will be coming to a theatre near you on December 12, 2014 — or about a year and a half from now. And that would make it one of two Bible epics hitting the big screen next year, the other being Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which comes out March 28."

Read more: Peter T. Chattaway, FilmChat, Patheos

"The hell he saw was harrowing, but it’s the sounds at Plaza Towers Elementary that Stuart Earnest Jr. says will haunt him forever."

Read more: Jason Sickles, The Lookout, Yahoo! News

"It was my privilege to collaborate with Chuck on many projects.The two most important ones were the Manhattan Declaration and the 'Doing The Right Thing' video series. Chuck, himself, regarded these initiatives as his 'legacy projects.' Both were his ideas. He leaves both as gifts to the Christian community, to which he dedicated his life in service, and to the Nation he loved. Both initiatives express and concretely embody a principle that was central to Chuck's understanding of the Christian faith and of his personal vocation as a Christian leader, namely, the harmony of faith and reason."

Read more: Robert P. George, CP Opinion, The Christian Post

"A judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse and conspiracy to cover up at a large church in Maryland. . . .

"The pastors and churches charged in the lawsuit could still face criminal charges because there is no statute of limitations on felonies."

Read more: Greta Kreuz, WJLA

"Rauch was not alone, as a young person, in believing that if he acknowledged his sexual orientation, then all hope for a 'normal' life of love would be lost to him. I wonder what other possibilities might have seemed viable to Rauch if he had heard the Church clearly saying—and showing—that friendship, not just marriage and parenthood, is a recognized, honored form of love too."

Read more: Wesley Hill, First Thoughts, First Things

"Today’s hearing on IRS abuses had a lot of 'are you kidding me?' moments, but this one stands out."

Read more: Jim Geraghty, The Campaign Spot, National Review Online

(H/T Glenn Sunshine)

"But for the most part, we’ve assumed that it’s acceptable for men to sacrifice marriage and family for career. Christian men need to stop making that assumption and count the cost of having the mindset of Christ."

Read more: Branson Parler, Think Christian

"In the introduction to her new book, How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization, Eberstadt does not shy away from asking the big questions about life in the west in the first decades of a new millennium."

Read more: Ed Driscoll, PJ Media

"Control is what science seems to have wrangled for us in the area of human fertility. Once considered the mysterious purview of the gods, human conception is now something we (almost) successfully manage. I am not here to defend or accuse our technological achievements in the area of human fertility, only to say that they have the potential for driving deeper our will for sovereignty. We want to decide when to have children. We want to decide how many to have. When pregnancy (or conversely, the inability to have children) comes as a surprise, we respond not only with incredulity, but with anger. It shatters the notion of human control."

Read more: Jen Pollock Michel, Her.meneutics, Christianity Today

"The idea of a book that would lead women closer to Jesus during their expectant journeys, but also provide a space to include memories, prayers, and special love notes to their baby just sort of struck me and then wouldn’t go away until I did something about it."

Read more: Catherine Claire Larson, interviewed by Alisha Michael, HJ Live!, Hollywood Jesus