Bob CollinsA divided Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday settled the question of whether the state’s courts have any business settling claims of defamation made by church officials while excommunicating parishioners.
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Tag: Religion
The Tennessee Senate is moving along a bill that would make the Bible the official book of Tennessee.
It now needs only the signature of the state’s governor to become law. Read more →
Nothing can kill church like its own history and relativity. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve seen the Oscar-winning Spotlight by now, the story of how the Boston Globe and a culture of investigative reporting uncovered the pedophiles of the Catholic Church and the deferential attitude of other media that allowed it to flourish.
Today, the Boston Globe provided a little spotlight on the actual reporters and editors that did the work. Read more →
Want a little bit of inspiration? Then you want to watch today’s Google on this International Women’s Day. Read more →
As the dust-up between Donald Trump and the pope begins to fade, a new front in the definitions of Christianity and the Church has opened up with a St. Louis archbishop’s letter to his clergy to consider evicting the Girl Scouts from parishes that sponsor them. Read more →
You’re going to want to sit down for this, Internet. The Prescott, Wis., police department is removing ‘In God We Trust’ from its police cars and they’re not happy about it.
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It’s not this picture that has gotten Larycia Alaine Hawkins in trouble with her employer, Wheaton College in Illinois. The private liberal arts school insists it has no opinion on the hijab she’s wearing to show her solidarity with people of other faiths.
Rather, it’s these words she wrote on Facebook that the evangelical Christian school has a problem with. Read more →
In the debate that has seared the nation in the last few weeks, I suspect we use the word ‘Muslim’ without a clear idea of what it means to be Muslim in America. Read more →
If you haven’t seen this video in your Facebook feed, you will.
‘In the Now,’ the Russia Today weekly program, says it doesn’t know who the man was who stood in the middle of Paris with a sign that asked, ‘Do you trust me?’ Read more →
Woman allowed to wear colander on head for driver’s license photo
Dunkin’ Donuts has parted the coffee and unveiled its Christmas-themed coffee cup, which some say is a rebuke to Starbucks, whose non-religious cup has prevented people from feeding the poor, housing the homeless, and loving their neighbor.
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You’ve probably heard about the ‘controversy’ surrounding Starbucks’ choice of red coffee cups for its holiday season. No mention of Christmas, or Jesus, or whatever else has never been on a Starbucks paper cup at Christmas.
It’s the kind of controversy that plays right into the hands of what fuels the Internet: outrage. Read more →
Shanley High School, a Catholic school in Fargo, has advanced to the North Dakota high school playoffs, and that’s a problem for some people because the team wants to hold a prayer. Read more →
‘Where is the most dangerous place for free speech in America? It’s not Iran, it’s not North Korea. We’re not going there,’ Grand Forks City Council member Terry Bjerke told a crowd this week. ‘The college campuses and the University of North Dakota are the most dangerous places for free speech.’ Read more →