Roy Adams reports in the Adventist Review on a couple of Congressional hearings last month. He was there to hear James Standish and others testify on behalf of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act. He got there a little early, and managed to hear testimony before a different committee: Jamie Leigh Jones telling of her experience…
In Georgia, the Catholic bishops have come out in opposition to a Human Life Amendment promoted by Georgia Right to Life. Deal Hudson has the details. The Catholic bishops and National Right to Life are against it; Georgia Right to Life and the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are in favor of…
Julia Duin of the Washington Times reports on a freelance spying group that has been trying to infiltrate mosques. I’m more worried about the actions of these vigilantes than I am about the folks they are spying on.
AP has a profile of some chaplains serving in Iraq.
From the Dallas Morning News blog: As more states turn to casinos, lotteries and other forms of gambling to fill their coffers, religious opponents of legalized wagering say their words are increasingly falling on deaf ears, reports Greg Trotter of Religion News Service. Indeed, he says, “moral opposition to gambling might be gasping its last…
Rod Dreher sees Magdi Allam and thinks of Ronald Reagan, especially his approach to the Soviet Union. He cites “Spengler” in Asia Times. A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict XVI baptized during the Easter…
Do you think your church has “contemporary worship”? Are the songs your church sings controversial? Check this out.
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