By Blogger Dr. Karin Heller Karin, I’ve got a couple of questions for you. If Noah took two of every kind of animal on the ark, what happened to the dinosaurs? Were they alive before Noah’s time or did Noah decide not to take them? Is the week that God …
Read More »Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Christmas wars; Jesus as Occupier?; Obama on LGBT rights
At the urging of a local radio host (always the best counselors), a troop ofRhode Islanders burst into the Statehouseand interrupted a children’s choir by loudly singing “O Christmas Tree” during a tree-lighting ceremony. Gov. Lincoln Chafeehad said he wanted to honor religious diversity by calling the Statehouse Spruce a …
Read More »Tuesday’s Religion Roundup: The real St. Nick, defending Newt, awkward Bachmann
Happy Feast ofSaint Nicholas! Or that “jolly old elf,” as we’ve come to know him. Though in fact – asthis recent facial reconstructionfrom his 1,600-year-old-skull shows – he was a tough, olive-skinned battler for Christian orthodoxy back in Asia Minor, or what we know today as Turkey. And, yes, he …
Read More »Nibbling on Life’s Moments
There’s this strange season in one’s life where the constant stretching forward to reach something, begins to spin around and you find yourself fumbling to hold on to something you don’t want to let pass. Every step forward feels like one step away from a life you didn’t realize you …
Read More »Meet Diane Kipp, our LDS blogger
Diane Kipp is a life long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). She graduated from Brigham Young University,“Long ago in the previous century,” she said. Kipp currently lives in Spokane Valley with two of her four adult children, her mom, one dog, three cats, and …
Read More »Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Obama’s sermon; Eddie Long’s divorce; Saudi virgins
POTUS got a little preachy at last night's lighting of theNational Christmas Treenear the White House: “Christ's birth made the angels rejoice and attracted shepherds and kings from afar. He was a manifestation of God's love for us.” Full texthere. More troubles for Atlanta megachurch pastorBishop Eddie Long: His wife has …
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