Two evangelical organizations that support environmental causes criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 30 that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution. The ruling was in a case titled West Virginia v the EPA. The Evangelical Environmental Network called the ruling “a significant blow to God’s children here in the United States and throughout creation.” The
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury We’ve all heard of the futility of trying to take “country” from rural lads after they’ve moved to town, and the same likely applies to attempts to take “clown” from rodeo entertainers, even when they climb the educational ladder to school superintendencies. This seems to elevate truth to a higher level when a clown
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON One of the beautiful stories to come out of World War II is the story of the North Platte Canteen of North Platte, Nebraska. One day in late 1941, the North Platte Bulletin received a letter from a 26-year-old woman, Rae Wilson. She spoke of how the mothers of the boys in World War I set up
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury My phone pulsated with excitement that could be attributed to my Uncle Mort’s recent spate of news, both good and bad. I asked for the good news first. “You ain’t gonna believe this, nephew, but I went into the swamp last night looking for cases of Monkey Pox, and things got really strange.” Had
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Andrew Kelly, a 2001 graduate of Abilene Christian University, and his wife, Jenny, were in Abilene when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, but their hearts and minds immediately were back in the land they knew well. In 2003, Andrew and Steve Taliaferro, a 1990 ACU graduate, started a ministry called Jeremiah’s Hope that operated a rescue shelter in Ukraine that
Read moreUnited Methodists reacted to the Supreme Court’s overturn of the 1973 landmark abortion ruling in Roe v Wade with varying opinions. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday, June 24, to uphold the decision in a case styled The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Supreme Court ruling gives the power to regulate abortions back to the states. Even
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A Supreme Court ruling on Friday, June 24, overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion. A day before that ruling, the Pew Research Center posted an article by Justin Nortey about the disagreement among adults in the United States over whether more restrictive laws are an effective way to reduce the number of abortions. The story
Read moreOn Friday, June 24, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Michael Curry, said in a statement that he is “deeply grieved” by the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturns Roe v Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The court ruled 6-3 on Friday to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law in a case styled Dobbs
Read moreBy NANCY PATRICK One of the results of Covid has been self-examination in the form of the question “why do I exist?” One way to find the answer is to write a personal statement of faith or mission statement. As an English teacher, I actually assigned my composition students the task of writing their own mission statements. One lesson we
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