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Religion and Values

  • Published
    February 11, 2012

    Judge who banned graduation prayer fires back at critics

    The unusually personal comments in a federal court order overshadowed the actual settlement.

  • Published
    February 11, 2012
    Compassion International gives kids a hand up

    Couple make compassion international

    From their Kansas home, they have changed the lives of three children in Mexico and Uganda.

  • Published
    February 4, 2012

    Reflections: Slowing down to sing the song of the seasons, places and people

    Like so many people today, I have lived a transient life. I was born in Northern California amid the Giant Sequoias, from age 11 through my adolescence raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with its fog, sunshine and bridges, into adulthood up against the mountains that contain the greater Los Angeles basin with its […]

  • Published
    February 4, 2012

    School board says ‘Bible Man’ can continue monthly school assemblies

    SCOTTSBORO, Ala. – School board members in Jackson County have decided not to ban a man known as the “Bible Man” from holding monthly meetings with elementary school children. The board took up the matter this week in response to complaints that religious assemblies were being held during the school day. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from […]

  • Published
    February 4, 2012

    Religion Calendar

    Today Cabin Fever Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m., with board games, cards and free potluck supper. Bring food to share or games to play. Children are welcome. Snow date is Feb. 11, St. Stephen the Martyr Church, 424 Sokokis Trail, Route 5, Waterboro. Call 247-6458 or 727-3228 with the number of people attending. Today and […]

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  • Published
    February 4, 2012

    Obama uses his religious convictions to defend policies

    His administration under fire from religious groups, he says some of his policies stem from a 'biblical call.'

  • Published
    February 4, 2012
    MItt Romney

    Mormons have a lot riding on Romney

    That is why, paradoxically, they have steered clear of anything that smacks of support for the candidate.

  • Published
    January 28, 2012

    Reflections: Would that we all could sow with the inner light of Isabel Baker

    Have you ever wondered what your holiday seasons might be like as you age — or even what they might be like if you get to be what the pundits call “old-old” (over 85)? I got a look at what they actually are like for one of my very favorite people in the whole world […]

  • Published
    January 28, 2012

    ACLU attacks bill to allow creationism in public schools

    INDIANAPOLIS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana’s top lawyer says that a pending bill that would allow schools to teach creationism in science classes clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and invites legal challenges. U.S. Supreme Court precedents “going back many years” have established the unconstitutionality of teaching creationism in public schools, Ken Falk […]

  • Published
    January 28, 2012
    Tulku Jalue Dorjee, the future spiritual leader for the Tibetan people.

    Boy believed to be reincarnated lama

    In five years, the 5-year-old will leave his parents' Minnesota home for a monastery in India.