Posts Tagged ‘christianity’
Fort Worth Teen Suspended For Anti-Gay Comments Makes Video
Andrew McLemoreRemember Dakota Ary? He was the teenager disciplined by Western Hills High School last year after a teacher overheard him telling another student that “homosexuality is wrong.” He and his mom filed a lawsuit against...
T-Rex Lived On Noah’s Ark: Film Recaps Texas Textbook Battle
Andrew McLemoreOkay, today we’ll start class with a pop quiz: What do hip-hop, evolution and Thomas Jefferson all have in common? Answer: They were all stricken from Texas textbooks by the group of evangelicals that sit on the Texas Sta...
Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit For Atheists? Not So Much
Andrew McLemoreI got very excited when I heard about the Dead Sea Scrolls coming to Fort Worth. I’d heard and read about the world-famous discovery many times. For many reasons, not least of which is a love of the written word in all it...
Anne Rice Ditches Church, Not God
Jimmy FowlerThe latest bit of non-news burning up the blogosphere – author Anne Rice declared on her Facebook page that she has “quit Christianity in the name of Christ.” Here’s an interesting piece on the Politics Daily website ab...
Old Believers
Big TicketIn the centuries immediately following Jesus’ death, European civilization was fairly nonexistent and Christianity was just one of a number of religions vying for followers with the likes of Mithraism, Baalism, and Gnosticism...