Month: June 2024

The Bible and Education

All Oklahoma schools are now required to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculum, the state’s superintendent announced. See the article HERE Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

“PICK UP YOUR BED & WALK” 😤 FAITH IN DIVINE HEALING & HOW IT HURTS THE DISABLED COMMUNITY

Growing up in the fundamentalist evangelical flock I believed my Pentecostal pastor when he told me God had revealed to him that I, a scrawny little schoolgirl who came to church because I had nothing better to do, possessed the gift of divine healing. I placed my little hands with their nervously bitten nails and “PICK UP YOUR BED & WALK” 😤 FAITH IN DIVINE HEALING & HOW IT HURTS THE DISABLED COMMUNITY

Part B Of My Exploration And Application of Robyn Faith Walsh’s Book Has Been Published

ABSTRACT: This is Part B of a three-part literary application and defense of Robyn Faith Walsh’s recent (2021) hypothesis that the Gospels are not, as is usually thought, the product of literate spokespersons conveying the oral tradition of their community, but rather are birthed out of networks of elite Greco-Roman-Jewish writers in dialogue with one Part B Of My Exploration And Application of Robyn Faith Walsh’s Book Has Been Published

Ruling is a significant setback for the often religious backed anti-abortion movement

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone, allowing drug to stay on the market. CNN—The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to regulating the abortion pill mifepristone with a ruling that will continue to allow the pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor’s Ruling is a significant setback for the often religious backed anti-abortion movement

The Separation of Church and State

MAGA pastor/Trump cultist Mark Burns has advanced to a runoff in South Carolina, putting him one step closer to Congress. Burns has promised that if elected, he’ll work to see that those who promote LGBTQ rights are held “accountable for treason.” See the Right Wing Watch article HERE Your name Your email Subject Your message The Separation of Church and State

Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist

James McGrath published his major trade book on John the Baptist today: The scholarly version comes in October: John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)