Engaging the ELCA in Post-Measure 3 Dialogue
Although I think a combination of Planned Parenthood money and typical North Dakotan skepticism is what ultimately did in Measure 3, the resolution presented as a press release by the ELCA diocese of...
View ArticleWhen States Force A Particular Secular Perspective
Recently, in a comment, Andrew raised the choices before Roman Catholic adoption agencies when states have mandated that all adoption agencies must be willing to adopt children to homosexual couples....
View ArticleReligious Circumcision for Males is Physical Abuse
A regional court in Germany has just ruled that circumcision for religious reasons is abuse and that faith communities that practice this on infants must now wait until the boy is old enough to decide...
View ArticleU.S. Supports Christian-Killing Rebels in Syria
According to some sources on the ground, the U.S. is backing rebels in Syria and these same rebels are killing Christians. Christians in Syria have tended to support (at least tacitly) the current...
View ArticleOldest Functioning Monastery in the World may be Closed by Turkey
The oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, dedicated to St. Gabriel, dates to the fifth century and lies in Turkey, near the Syrian border. The area was once heavily populated by...
View ArticleReligious Freedoms and Christianity in the West
Well, religious freedom, a topic I’ve covered elsewhere on the blog, continues to be an item that makes the news. For those who are interested in this larger, ongoing socio-religio discussion, I link...
View ArticleRestricting American Religious Freedom
It might seem odd to have such a title for a blog post in light of the recent flap over the fragment of papyrus that references a “wife” for Jesus. After all, if such a likely forgery made that much...
View ArticleRestricting American Religious Freedom
It might seem odd to have such a title for a blog post in light of the recent flap over the fragment of papyrus that references a “wife” for Jesus. After all, if such a likely forgery made that much...
View ArticleIs Our Foreign Policy Ignorant of Middle Eastern Christianity? A Look at...
Today, I thought I’d draw attention to something I would bet most Americans do not consider. Most Americans likely think of Islam if they happen to connect a religion to Egypt, but Christianity has...
View ArticleWhy Christians Should Defend the Choice to be an Atheist
Since we’re in North Dakota, we might not have heard of this, but in Arizona, some Republicans want to pass legislation stating that one cannot graduate from high school if one is an atheist. Don’t...
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