Archive for January, 2009

Christian Schools Can Discriminate, say Courts

The courts have finally decided that religious schools have every right to discriminate if they so choose.  In Riverside County, a Lutheran school has expelled two 16-year old girls for having a “bond of intimacy” that is “characteristic of a lesbian relationship.”  The girls sued, saying the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law, but [...]

It’s a Miracle: Dog Returns from the Dead!

Hey, if Jesus can do it, why not a dog?  In Centennial, Colorado, the Nichalson family doesn’t know what to make of the mysterious image that’s appeared on their backyard barbecue, an image that looks just like their dearly departed pet dog, Fletcher.
“It’s very freaky,” Steve Nichalson said. “It is a little spooky.”
A couple of [...]

Zombies Ahead! Run For Your Lives!

Hackers in Austin Texas have come up with a wonderful new display on roadside signs near a busy intersection at Martin Luther King and Lamar.  The signs, which usually say “Men At Work” or something similar, were changed to “Zombies Ahead, Run For Your Lives”.
I give them credit for creativity.  The changes, which only lasted [...]

The Teflon Cardinal May Lose Teflon Coating

Federal authorities are now investigating the Los Angeles Catholic Diocese to see if top officials are guilty of knowingly covering up child molesting priests.  A federal grand jury started proceedings last year and has now issued supoenas and is calling witnesses in their investigation.
Cardinal Roger Mahoney, called the Teflon Cardinal by many due to his [...]

It’s Religious Quiz Time!

Thanks to a post on Halt & Catch Fire, where he was pointing out political quizzes, I went back and looked at a post that I did more than a year ago on political quizzes and that got me thinking about other kinds of quizzes that I might want to look into.
So here are a [...]

This is how we need to teach science!

Physicist Brian Greene does a phenomenal job of explaining exactly why current science education fails so often and what we, as a society, as a culture, need to do in order to instill a love of science in our children.
Why can’t we have teachers at all levels of the educational scale that are really excited [...]


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