Beth, a Christian, and her atheist friend Traci liked what Jim and Casper did so much that they’re going to do it too. Except, they’re going to Christian women’s ministry meetings.
They’ve already posted their pre-visit thoughts and plans over on our ChurchRater blog, here:
Their first meeting was last night and the second is this morning - I expect they’ll be posting about those soon, so check back. The link Beth and Traci go to Church (series) will retrieve everything posted in the series so far.
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By Siamang
Over the weekend, my wife and I were listening to the excellent Public Radio Show This American Life. The episode from 2006 included a troubling story about a young muslim girl attending fourth-grade in a public school in Delaware being singled out for threats by other students and proselytizing by her Christian schoolteacher, who told her she was going to hell. When they complained, the school officials did nothing. Which is pretty much exactly what happened to Matthew LaClair, an atheist. Which reminded me of yet another particularly horrifying story about these tactics against a family of Jews in Indian River Delaware.
A homemaker active in her children’s schools, Mrs. Dobrich said she had asked the board to develop policies that would leave no one feeling excluded because of faith. People booed and rattled signs that read “Jesus Saves,” she recalled. Her son had written a short statement, but he felt so intimidated that his sister read it for him. In his statement, Alex, who was 11 then, said: “I feel bad when kids in my class call me ‘Jew boy.’ I do not want to move away from the house I have lived in forever.”
Later, another speaker turned to Mrs. Dobrich and said, according to several witnesses, “If you want people to stop calling him ‘Jew boy,’ you tell him to give his heart to Jesus.”
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The headline in Today’s Minneapolis newspaper reads, “Huckabee, Obama Lead The Way.” Here’s a link to the online stories. Frankly, I’m not that surprised about Obama - he and Hillary both seem to be leading democratic candidates - but it is surprising to me to see Huckabee bubbling to the top.
I’m not sure where I ran across this link to OnTheIssues.com - probably here on this blog. But I’ve been looking at it and it seems like a pretty good source for seeing how the politicians compare to one another.
I especially like the graph at the bottom of each candidate’s page that plots them as a whole. For example, Obama is classified as a “hard core liberal” and Huckabee comes up as a “hard core conservative.”
I wonder if we’re seeing a polarization of views where whoever wins will be a “hard core” whatever.
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