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How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…documents. For anyone who values freedom to worship according to one’s conscience, this is scary stuff. If you haven’t read the article yet, I encourage you to read all of it. Those who have read the Wedge Document will recognize the sound of it in Shorto’s account of the Texas battle. The Christian “truth” about America’s founding has long been taught in Christian schools, but not beyond. Recently, however—perhaps out of ire at what they see as…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…you get the obvious—frequent landslides, especially after heavy rain. But, science isn’t quite as fun as supernatural speculation on why or why not we humans may or may not have pissed God off. No one grabs headlines if they simply state that a place where natural disasters routinely happen has encountered one once again. No, it’s much more exciting to bring God into the picture—and flog ourselves for some slight against the Deity. When will relig…