A northern Mississippi school district has decided not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
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Tensions in Nigeria remain high in the aftermath of the killing of nearly 400 Christians by Muslim gangs armed with machetes. This latest conflict continues ongoing violence between Christians and Muslims in Africa’s most populous and most diverse country. The dead, in a freshly dug mass grave, included a pregnant woman and at least one infant. A few miles away in Jos, a city of a half-million at the crossroads of Nigeria’s Muslim north and predominantly Christian south, troops patrolled the outskirts and set up checkpoints.
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A service model for young Christians
In USA Today last week, Oliver Thomas penned an interesting editorial discussing the challenges for mainline Protestants in the coming decades. I won’t steal the author’s thunder if you would like to read the entire piece, …
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Faith council submits recommendations to White House
The faith council advising the White House on policy prescriptions for a range of social issues submitted its final report Wednesday. Abortion reduction and religious hiring issues, two of the most contentious issues where faith and government intersect, was left off the table. The next council will be named in late spring/early summer, according to Faith Office Director Joshua Dubois. He said he doesn’t expect the next council to address the same issues this one did.
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AFA appoints new chairman, VPs
Several leadership changes are now official at the American Family Association.
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TX education board set to resume votes on curriculum
Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's conservative leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
Political correctness...or historical accuracy?
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Blending young adult ministries within churches presents many obstacles
Ministries for teens and young adults are nothing new. However, incorporating worship experiences and needs of younger generations into the church as a whole is a constant challenge. Communications between different age groups and leaderships groups is important to the long-term growth of churches and membership retention.
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Opinion: God, unlike search engines, forgets histories
The publishing of search engine data a few years ago by America Online created an uproar and also showed the patterns of people’s lives reflected in their Internet habits. Unlike search engines, though, the author describes how God doesn’t remember histories forever for those who seek his guidance in their faith walk.
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Sherwood's next film focuses on fatherhood
The script for the latest movie from Sherwood Baptist Church, the Georgia-based church that produced Fireproof, has been written and is being revised.
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Abortion remains contentious sticking point in health care push
Disagreement over abortion language in the passed House and Senate health care reform bills remains one of the most significant obstacles to reconcile. Timothy Jost, co-author of the casebook “Health Law,” which is widely used throughout the United States in teaching health law at law schools, insists that no tax dollars can go toward funding of abortions under the Senate bill.
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Halt to church services questioned
Questions are being raised about halting church services for a public housing apartment complex in Dallas.
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Gay marriage in D.C. raises questions about faith, funding
In response to the new gay marriage law in Washington, Catholic Charities closed its adoption and foster care programs and cut spousal benefits to future employees—to avoid providing services to homosexual couples. If a church or other religious charity receives government funding, should it follow all government rules, including those against discrimination based on sexual orientation? Or should government exempt such organizations from requirements that violate particular religious beliefs?
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Presumed consent - good intent, bad possibilities
Illinois is considering a bill that provides for organ harvesting without a person's permission.
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Christian professor clarifies stance on 'sexual identity'
A professor at an evangelical Christian college in Pennsylvania says his guidelines for "sexual identity therapy" are being misunderstood by some Christian proponents of traditional marriage.
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Barring new charges, remaining Haiti missonary likely to be freed
Unless new charges are filed against her, the last of 10 Southern Baptist mission volunteers jailed in Haiti on suspicion of child kidnapping will have to be released, according to an expert on Haiti’s legal system. The Haitian judge overseeing the case involving the mission team composed mostly of members from two Idaho Southern Baptist congregations released the ninth team member, 24-year-old Charisa Coulter, on March 8.
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Special delivery gets USPS attention
After settling a small dispute, a Michigan post office is giving religious speech the stamp of approval.
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Baseball a successful ministry in Eastern Europe
Think of baseball hotspots and Eastern Europe does not ordinarily come to mind. However, baseball has been an integral part of the growth experience for some boys in Slovakia, where a sports ministry has helped give a different perspective on friendship and camaraderie in nation still recovering from decades of Communist oppression.
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Providence pro-lifer let off the hook
A pro-life activist arrested during an appearance of Congressman Patrick Kennedy at Brown University will not be prosecuted.
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How to build a church IT presence
Budgeting for information technology resources is a given for many churches. The question becomes how to use computers and the Internet effective and keep its focus on extending the church’s presence and ministries. This may include establishing wireless networks and streamlining operations so everyone from the lead pastor to volunteers is able to use and share information effectively.
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Outcry builds in wake of Nigeria attack on Christian villagers
An Anglican Archbishop in Nigeria lamented Sunday’s attack on Christians near the city of Jos and pleaded for an end to the bloodshed between Christians and Muslims. “Some of these communities may never again be recognized in history because generations have been wiped out,” said the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Josin a statement. “Hundreds of corpses of men, women, children and grandchildren littered the burned houses, roads, bush paths, farm areas and hiding places,” he said.
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