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17
Dec
2009
Danforth gives $30M for Religion in Politics Center

10 hours ago by Peter Carey

Former United States Senator (and retired Episcopal priest) John C. Danforth's foundation gives $30 million dollars to establish a center which will explore the role of religion in politics: Danforth gives $30M for Washington University religion center St. Louis Business Journal Washington Universit ...

Episcopal Cafe - episcopalcafe.com · Rank: 7,841 · 232 references

16
Dec
2009
The mad testing the sane…

1 day ago by james mary evans

”The cross”: let him carry it, for nothing is so necessary, so beneficial, so agreeable, or so glorious as to suffer something for Jesus Christ. – St. Louis de Montfort This drawing, released by Chester Johnson, of Taunton, shows a sketch of Jesus on the cross created by his son as part of school wo ...

Untitled blog - fratres.wordpress.com · Rank: 20,826 · 94 references

Religious Right Takes a Deep Philosophical Breath

1 day ago by James Hipps

I found this great post on Politics without God and felt it worth sharing. Please support the separation of church and state as it is not ethical or fair to allow personal religious ideologies dictate the rights and laws administered to tax-paying citizens. For two decades, the Religious Right has r ...

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50% of UK Christian? That would be nice. Or would it?

1 day ago by dmk

A trailer for some research being published in January was released this morning by the National Centre for Social Research. It's a comparison of religious attitudes in the UK and US, and leads with the finding that people defining themselves as Christian has declined from 66% to 50% since 1983. Tel ...

St. Aidan to Abbey Manor - davidkeen.blogspot.com · Rank: 6,842 · 94 references

Update on School Boy With Jesus Drawing

1 day ago by Bob Ellis

There is an update to the story yesterday about the boy who drew a picture of Christ on a cross as a Christmas theme, only to be sent home and told undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Now the school is claiming the boy wasn't actually suspended and that the drawing in question wasn't the one the boy d ...

Dakota Voice - dakotavoice.com · Rank: 5,211 · 405 references

Question: What do you think of this Census poster?

1 day ago by Thomas Peters

This census poster is generating a lot of controversy - some are calling it blasphemous: Someone against the poster (all quotes via USA Today): The Rev. Miguel Rivera, chairman of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, says invoking the name of Jesus to promote the 2010 Censu ...

American Papist: Not Your ... - americanpapist.com · Rank: 30,202 · 185 references

Church and State Trouble Remembering Jesus in Christmas

1 day ago by Rob

(Taunton, MA) A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Check it out here from the Taunton Gazette)Rob's Note: Having grown up in Massachusetts ...

The Real Issue - rob-lundberg.blogspot.com · Rank: 43,025 · 5 references

Should Individual Christians Be Involved in the Coercive State?

1 day ago by creedorchaos

David VanDrunen argues persuasively that they should in a recently published article, Bearing Sword in State, Turning Cheek in the Church: A Reformed Two-Kingdoms Interpretation of Matthew 5:38-42. He effectively and clearly shows how classical Reformed, two-kingdom theology explains the proper rela ...

Creed:or:Chaos - creedorchaos.wordpress.com · Rank: 127,185 · 32 references

15
Dec
2009
Call me a crazy athiest but…

1 day ago by rediculectomy

there is no way my high school should be playing “Oh Night Divine” or “Joy to the Word” over the morning announcements. I understand that everyone is extremely happy about winter break coming at the end of the week, but there is no reason for a public school to start getting all religious on us just ...

A Removal of Rediculousnes - rediculectomy.wordpress.com

Boy Ordered into Psych Evaluation for Drawing Christ on Cross at Christmas

2 days ago by Bob Ellis

An 8-year-old boy drew a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross when his teacher asked the class to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas. So the school sent him home and required him to undergo a psychological evaluation. What's wrong with this picture? Dakota Voice: Exposing the perniciou ...

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