As Senator Obama said during the 2008 campaign, words matter. Modern “liberalism” is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of “tolerance” are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to “celebrate diversity” coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity. Thus, the Obama administration’s insistence that Catholic institutions must be compelled to provide…
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Eddie Long, pastor of a Georgia megachurch and no stranger to controversy, is learning the hard way that, as popular wisdom holds, it is indeed good to be king — but it may not be all it’s cracked up to be. In a video that has gone viral, Long is named king by Ralph Messer,…
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The New York Giants and the New England Patriots face off February 5 in the NFL championship. The game, known as the Super Bowl, will be played in Indianapolis, Indiana and ends a season in which expressions of faith on the field by a player from another team ignited controversy. Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow…
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The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation is challenging prayers in the North Carolina General Assembly that it says favor Christianity. On Thursday, the ACLU said it sent a letter to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper outlining concerns about the use of sectarian prayers to open meetings at the Legislature. The…
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When it comes to religion in public education, Americans struggle between aspects of the First Amendment forbidding establishment of religion (government sanctioning religion) and prohibiting government from hindering the free exercise of religion (government rules of worship or non-worship). What is important in education is making the study of religion a part of education. And…
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Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his success and achievement were evidence of something unethical and immoral? President Obama and other redistributionists must be rejoicing that their assumptions about rugged capitalism and the…
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In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways they never had to…
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Opening Friday, Universal’s new film “Big Miracle,” starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski, is the fictionalized retelling of the 1988 rescue of three California gray whales trapped off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, and the media circus that sprung up around the efforts to cut a path through the arctic ice to set them free.…
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Once upon a time, Nevada was Utah. Territorial Gov. Brigham Young presided over the Utah Territory, lands stretching west from Salt Lake City, across the Great Basin to Carson Valley. The largest Mormon settlement was in Franktown, just west of Washoe Lake. More than 100 families journeyed there in the summer of 1856 at Young’s…
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A new historical feature film is being prepared to mark next year’s 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Christian missionaries SS Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia and the beginnings of Christianity in Bohemia and Moravia, the film authors and church dignitaries told journalists yesterday. The film will be made by Petr Nikolaev. It is…
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