Religion Dispatches
…the police on the side of the road with traffic, or being on punishment at high school. You don’t want to draw more attention to yourself from the rubbernecks. For me, I just watch the security intake process. for example, the next man through was not so self conscious or prepared. The alarm went off, twice. the guard sees him pull up his shirt and tells him to take off the belt. He steps back then, but can’t beat the alarm and the guard tells him…
Read More…ather said. • Billy (William) Lucas, 15, a student at Greensburg Community High School in Greensburg, IN, was found dead in a barn at his grandmother’s home Thursday evening — he had hanged himself. Friends say that he had been tormented for years. “He was threatened to get beat up every day,” friend and classmate Nick Hughes said. “Sometimes in classes, kids would act like they were going to punch him and stuff and push him. Some people at school…
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…unity. Why? Because, according to the Committee’s staff memo, there was a “high level of distrust” of the government by the churches under investigation and the religious advocacy groups that supported them. Translation: they didn’t want the government engaging in any oversight of their financial activities. Religious freedom and all. The committee staff report on Copeland’s ministry revealed the lengths to which Copeland’s Eagle Mountain Internat…
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…te the ‘no’ case,” he said. Davies told the gathering that “the stakes are high and the cost is high”. “Yet the cause is just and it is a consequence of our discipleship to uphold the gift of marriage as God has designed it — a creation ordinance for all people. By so doing, the wisdom of God is made manifest.” … “I believe that a change in the definition of marriage is unwarranted, not just because it is in opposition to the teaching of scripture…
Read More…you know that the abstinence educator spoke last week at George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, where she reportedly told students, “If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you,” and “I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you’re going to be promiscuous.” Covering that same visit for the Charleston Gazette, Mackenzie Mays observes: In her YouTube videos, Stenzel says birth control makes…
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…Nixon grew up with Narcotic Education Week. Nixon went to grade school and high school in Whittier and Fullerton, both of which are in the Los Angeles metro area. He graduated high school in spring of 1930. Los Angeles was the heart of Narcotic Education Week and home to its earliest iteration; it would be shocking if Nixon never encountered it as a child. As president, Nixon amplified existing antidrug structures and reshaped national narratives,…
Read More…o she explained it was the hemoglobin count. As it turns out, I am in the (high) normal range and it is like an early warning system: if I get pro-active, I can avoid type-II diabetes (which is common in my family. In fact, I lost my eldest brother to it just last year). When I got the news, during the fast, a number of my friends told me just go ahead and stop fasting to address it. But, I thought if I do not get on top of it, this may be my last…
Read More…Trump tapes: sure, the comments were “inappropriate,” but they don’t rank high on the “hierarchy of concerns” of evangelicals. And anyway, that was 11 years ago, when he wasn’t a Christian and was a young man of 59, and now that he’s a baby Christian and fully matured at 70, obviously he’s a better man. And we’re electing someone to stand for our values, not to be our Sunday School teacher. And besides, Bill Clinton. Supreme Court. Bill Clinton….
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…lly did on this particular “Decision Day.” Bolstering speculation that the high court may not be done considering marriage equality, the court also announced today that it will hear a controversial case out of Colorado, where a baker refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, claiming that his religious views exempted him from longstanding statewide nondiscrimination law. The plaintiff, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo…
Read More…cal construct, I had already come upon in the Qur’an—although by using the phonetics alone. About the only thing that slowed down this rabid pace was becoming a mother. So I had two children (including one born in Libya, where the knots in my ear and my tongue were loosened) before I had a chance to pick up my love again. After one year in graduate school I spent a year in Cairo specifically for an intensive immersion study of the Arabic language….
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