Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Sicinski at Fort Bragg said the hosting of “Rock the Fort” was a non-issue. “We don’t treat soldiers who are atheists as atheists, we treat them as soldiers,” he said. “They’re soldiers first.” The U.S. military hosted an event meant specifically for atheist and agnostic soldiers for the first time Saturday... Continue Reading

Testifying before the U.S. Senate last year, Mike Rowe—the rugged host of television’s Dirty Jobs—said nearly a half million trade jobs are out there for the taking across the United States. That sets up a huge dichotomy in a struggling economy: People can’t find jobs, and yet, good jobs can’t find qualified people. The conventional... Continue Reading

“Writing checks won’t solve social problems,” Raschke said. “One has to get involved. If we see someone in need, we just don’t throw a dollar at him or her. You get to know them, you offer yourself, and ask what you can do for them.” He was a healer, a provider of universal health care,... Continue Reading

“I once heard an employer say ‘If I can’t see your Facebook profile, I can find someone with a profile I can see,'” he said. “The fact that an employer will go to that trouble says something about the employer’s very real need to identify responsible employees.” Brent Harris thought he had found the perfect... Continue Reading

Looking ahead to the election Donahue said, “Everyone knows that Protestants vote Republican, and Jews vote Democrat. It’s Catholics who are up for grabs.”…in 2008, 78 percent of Jewish voters supported Obama, and 73 percent of evangelical Christians voted for John McCain. Meanwhile, 54 percent of Catholics cast their ballots for Obama. Politicians usually calculate... Continue Reading

But in every pregnancy, at conception the entire DNA text for the child’s story has already been written and 40 days after conception there is a heartbeat and brain wave. There is no avoiding the clear fact that an abortion ends a human life. Since 1973, there have been 53,000,000 abortions in America. Each one... Continue Reading

Al al-Sheikh is not the Arabian equivalent of some backwoods Florida pastor. He is the highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia, where there is no separation of mosque and state, and the state religion is the ultra-orthodox/fundamentalist reading of Islam known as Wahhabism. Imagine if Pat Robertson called for the demolition of all the mosques... Continue Reading

“You have, in some measure, displayed utter contempt for the courts and the rights of others,” he said. “You appear to be governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country. Your determination to break the law is a potential threat to the well-being of society and plants the seeds of lawlessness,... Continue Reading

“Students often have questions about those theories,” Watson said. “Some of those questions come from their own knowledge. Some of those questions come from knowledge that they have gained in their community.” The Tennessee Senate approved a bill Monday that would encourage teachers and students to debate evolution in the classroom, setting aside complaints that... Continue Reading

There can be good days ahead for the American evangelical church, but one thing it depends on is whether our members rightly distinguish the freedom associated with the doctrines of grace from the liberty that leads to licentiousness. Sanctification has rightly been identified as an area needing improvement among American evangelical churches. Given the abundance... Continue Reading