Imagine forty days without social networking.

Fasting can take a toll on a person, but it allows reflection and self-examination and how we depend on material things.

A new poll by the Southern Baptist Convention’s LifeWay Research shows that just over a third of Americans view homosexuality as a sin, down from 44 percent a year earlier.

LifeWay’s survey in November found 37 percent said they believe homosexual behavior is a sin, down from 44 percent in September 2011.

President Barack Obama chose the Rev. Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Conferences, to deliver the benediction at his Jan. 21 inauguration ceremony, but the Atlanta pastor withdrew Jan. 10, following a furor over a sermon from the mid-1990s in which he denounced the gay rights movement and advocated efforts to turn gays straight.

Hobby Lobby Stores, owned by the family of ORU Board of Trustees Chairman Mart Green, could not find a Christian college able to take over a 217-acre historic campus it purchased in Massachusetts, so the property has been donated to the National Christian Foundation in Georgia.

NCF now plans to do what Hobby Lobby has tried in vain to do since acquiring the property in 2009: give it to a Christian institution that will honor the legacy of its founder, evangelist D.L. Moody.