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(UNDATED) What do the Good Samaritan and “Green Eggs and Ham” have in common? They’re both parables that explain divine truth, according to Robert Short, a retired Presbyterian minister in Little Rock, Ark., and author of “The Parables of Dr. Seuss.” “In this book I tend to argue that Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was a first-class Christian thinker and that this thinking was intentionally made part of the literary and artistic work he has given us,” Short says in the introduction. Read more of this story.
COMMENTARYI recently become a fan of Twitter. It’s an easy-to-use social networking device to let friends, family, fans or whoever know what you are doing in real time. And here’s the trick to it, you can only post up to 140 characters, so you have to be short and sweet (hard for a preacher like me!)Do you think Jesus would have been on Twitter if it was available while He was on earth? Interesting question with an unknowable answer. But if had been on Twitter I would love to read His “tweets.”Read more of this commentary.
Religious environmentalists and social justice advocates in Wisconsin are echoing the concerns of a faith-based initiative announced in Washington on Tuesday aimed at addressing global climate change and its effects on the world’s poor.A coalition of Catholic organizations, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, launched what they described as an unprecedented campaign to educate the faithful about the moral implications of climate change and of legislative proposals to remedy it.Read more of this story.
The Rev. Richard Cizik, the National Association of Evangelicals lobbyist who was forced to resign after expressing support for same-sex unions, is forming a new organization that will embrace a far broader agenda than the issues long claimed by the conservative Christian movement.Read more of this story.
USA (MNN) ― Both free speech and religious freedom could be curtailed if legislation prohibiting so called "hate speech" is approved in the U. S. Congress. According to reports, the House Judiciary Committee is considering hate crimes legislation. The bill, known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, would amend present hate crimes laws to include violence motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender or disability. Read more of this story. Miss California Unfairly Judged? – The Washington PostUPDATE – LEGISLATION APPROVED IN COMMITTEECQ POLITICS.COM
WASHINGTON—Every year between 2001 and 2008, former President Bush’s calendar was cleared on the first Thursday in May to mark the National Day of Prayer in the White House East Room with prominent evangelicals. Now the Obama White House is facing questions of inside-the-Beltway etiquette: Should Obama maintain the open door to conservative critics like James and Shirley Dobson, and if so, should they accept? Or, will the White House have an official observance at all? Read more of this story.
Dalton – Here, the economic news travels slowly, by word of mouth and horse and buggy.It filters through Mishler’s Country Store, where bills are totaled on battered manual adding machines and kerosene lamps light the aisles when the sun goes down. It circulates through the Salemville Cheese Cooperative, where families cart in fresh milk, straight from the farm.And it spreads to Raymond Bontrager’s Maple Lane Woodshop, where a wood fire warms craftsmen who turn planks of oak, maple, cherry and pine into exquisite pieces of furniture. "We hear about it all the time from the customers," Bontrager says.The Old Order…
HONG KONG — This city’s three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world’s first life-size replica of Noah’s ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center.The message in its 450-foot-long hull, its rooftop luxury hotel and 67 pairs of fiberglass animals: "The financial tsunami will be over," says Spencer Lu, the Kwoks’ project director at Noah’s Ark, which is opening soon.Read more of this story.
COMMENTARYAre we witnessing this Easter season the decline of Christianity in America, or is this a moment of reform and renewal, a time when the deterioration that has been underway is arrested? Read more of this commentary.
It was early in the morning on Oct. 15, 1988 that people driving along Lacy Road saw an unusual sight. A crane was lifting a steeple to the top of the frame structure that was emerging as a new church building at the edge of the developed area of the city. It was rising on a terminal moraine of rocky land formed by the last glacier to push its way into Wisconsin.Read more of this story.