{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"UK Drops Threat of Charges for Silent Prayer","description":" Local authorities in a coastal English town are dropping the threat of legal charges against Adam Smith-Connor for praying silently outside of an abortion clinic.  In a video of the incident, a police officer, obviously uncomfortable, asked Smith-Connor to describe the \u201cnature of [his] prayer,\u201d adding that she doesn\u2019t \u201cwant to probe.\u201d She suggested Smith-Connor might be violating the town\u2019s \u201cbuffer zone\u201d rule, which outlaws \u201cacts of disapproval\u201d outside of the clinic. Ultimately, the officers say they believe he is allowed to pray silently, but they still fined him. Smith-Connor refused to pay it.  People have to stand up to government overreach. It\u2019s much easier to be a council member and pass an ordinance like this from safely inside City Hall than to be the police officer charged with enforcing it while their gut says, \u201cNo, this isn\u2019t right.\u201d   And Christians, who are called to \u201clive not by lies,\u201d as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it, may have to make tough choices about what or Whom they must serve. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, visit Colsoncenter.org ","author_name":"Breakpoint","author_url":"https:\/\/breakpoint.org","html":"