Pat Robertson appeared yet again on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," and yet again his remarks were unabashedly forthcoming. When a viewer asked if it was OK that her Christian friend had a Buddha statue, Robertson advised her to "break it." The Buddha wasn't h …
Maybe she sensed our weariness; whether by plan or coincidence, Susan chose the perfect opportunity to attempt an escape. She suddenly leapt up and ran for the door, despite the many hands holding her down. This burst of action served to revive the tired group of students and t …
Officials at Beaverton Grace Bible Church weren't too thrilled to learn that a former member had written negative online reviews of the service and congregation, so they filed a lawsuit against an Oregon mother and her family. Julie Anne Smith, her daughter and three other com …
Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic school in Ohio, made news today for dropping its student health-care plan in protest of the Obama administration's decision that health insurers must cover contraception. (Via the Huffington Post.)The school announced online tha …
How Rational is America? Neil Denny: There is a familiar cliché in the UK media of an overtly religious, backward-looking, anti-intellectual and anti-science America, an America under sustained attack from the forces of irrationality. ...Yet it remains a fact that …
INTERNET: The internet blew up today after President Obama officially announced his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the first president in history to do so. Naturally, both sides of the argument were vocal and passionate about the sudden turn of events today. A fantastic …
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"Everything he says is based on the word of God," Long pledged to the members of his megachurch. But Taylor wasn't a visiting minister. He was a financial adviser, one who claimed to have made his first million before he turned 18. And he promised he could do the same for his f …
Freedom From Religion Foundation has several suits going through the courts, some dating back to November 2008 and others filed recently against cities in Florida, Texas and Arkansas. Brett Harvey, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, told The Christian Post that his …
Religious people often disown their gay or lesbian children on the basis that the bible calls homosexuality an abomination. However, I believe that their reasoning is flawed and that this is an exceptionally hypocritical stance. Very few paren …
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Pastor Sean Harris has given a halfhearted apology for calling on parents to discipline their children to conform to gender stereotypes during a sermon in support of Amendment One on Sunday. “If I had to say it again, I would say it differently, no doubt,” Harris t …
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