The court declared any university policies that restrict student free speech are open to constitutional examination. OSU administrators' actions violated the First Amendment and strongly suggested "viewpoint discrimination" because their policy was unwritten, unannounced, and had no history of enforcement... "It materialized like a bolt out of the blue to smite The Liberty's, but not The Daily Barometer's, newsbins onto the trash heap," the opinion states.

Young pastors are often turned down for positions because a retirement age minister wants the job. When a church is struggling to pay for a pastor, they can hire a pastor who is already retired, so they don’t have all the financial obligations that they would with a full-time, installed minister.

Although the policy requires session to call a congregational meeting, Detroit Presbytery asserts that a congregation does not have the right to take a non-binding advisory vote on this subject because it is not enumerated in the Book of Order as business for a congregational meeting and since the congregation, according to the Detroit Presbytery, cannot take this vote, the presbytery then as the right to override both the Book of Order and Michigan state law, which detail that congregation’s bylaws determine quorum for congregational meetings.

Imagine if I said, "Don't like slavery? Then don't own a slave." Or, "Don't like spousal abuse? Then don't beat your wife!" If I said such things, you would immediately realize I don't grasp why slavery and spousal abuse are wrong. They are not wrong because I personally dislike them. They are wrong because slaves and spouses are intrinsically valuable human beings who have a natural right not to be treated as property

Caribbean people could resonate with the horror of zombies because they knew what it was like to be enslaved by evil people, with no hope of escape. And maybe our culture pays attention to zombies because we know what it is like to be dead inside, but unable to find peace, unable to stop walking.... Continue Reading

In this case, the sharpest point of disagreement may well be with the one aspect of Judge Bellows' ruling in which the Virginia Attorney General joined in requesting review: the order that The Falls Church hand over to the Diocese all of the pledge money it had collected from and after February of 2008, regardless of the intent expressed by the Church's donors that none of their gifts should go to the entity that was suing them for their property

Grace Wong, a senior at the University of Southern California, agrees with Kim’s vision. She thought about joining Epic as a freshman but chose the more multicultural InterVarsity for two simple reasons: “I wanted a small fellowship, and not an Asian fellowship.” She grew up in an Asian church, but said joining a more diverse fellowship opened up her perception of God and her whole world of understanding: “In Asian communities, it’s great that you’re comfortable and you understand your own culture, but you block off a huge part of the world.”

All of these efforts (in Geneva) were grounded in an expectation that those seeking help would also seek work. Calvin taught that begging without honest work (for those who were able) was incompatible with a biblical work ethic—a break from Roman Catholic almsgiving that had distributed charity more indiscriminately. And diaconal assistance in Geneva came with biblical counseling from the deacons, and an expectation that recipients attend the local church.

News item: LifeWay Christian Stores has opted not to carry Rachel Held Evans's new book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. While she has publicly stated that she has not been told the reason the retail chain won't stock the book, she has also said in several recent interviews that it is because she used the word vagina.

Are church members still Episcopal or something else? Even the new name of the new diocese could be confusing. “We’re trying not to focus on names here. But more than anything else, I think people are looking around the pews at the people around them and realizing that this is the church, no matter what we call ourselves.”