The social network that you can wear
- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, runs a licensed preschool and day-care program. This program includes religious teaching. There is also a recreation area for students. To quote the opinion of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the state’s Department of Natural Resources “offers Playground Scrap Tire Surface Material Grants, a solid waste-management program. The
READ MOREA heretic is usually known for his opposition to a confession of faith. Only rarely does a man find himself suspected of heresy when his public witness is orthodox. Such a man was the Dutch theologian James Arminius—suspected of heresy because of his demand for personal religious freedom. This man, reputed to have been the
READ MOREIn 1382 John Wycliffe, an Oxford don, was summoned before Archbishop Courtenay to defend himself against charges of heresy. Then an earth tremor shook Lambeth Palace. Each side claimed it was God’s displeasure upon the other. Church leaders were ready to condemn Wycliffe with a list of 10 tenets that were dubbed simply as “heresy.”
READ MORERecently our family purchased some DNA kits. We did the customary swabs, dropped them in the mail, and waited for the lab to process them. Several weeks later our genetic profile arrived in our inbox. For me there weren’t any surprises—I truly come from the part of the world that I thought I was from.
READ MOREWandley Jeune never imagined that a commitment to his faith would result in such life-altering consequences. Wandley is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian who observes a weekly Sabbath rest from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. He was a popular barber in a suburb outside Newark, New Jersey, before the shop he worked in told him they
READ MORECurrent discussions of religious liberty issues echo arguments posed at the League of Nations in Geneva more than 85 years ago. Does religious liberty extend beyond the freedom to choose a particular creed or doctrine? Are believers at liberty to express their faith in their public life? Can we allow the rights of religious minorities
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