Tag Archives: values

Young celebrity is spiritually smart

Who’d that be, you ask? Turns out it’s Miley Cyrus: “My faith is very important to me,” said Miley, a Southern Baptist. “But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday. Because now when I go … Continue reading

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Book censorship from a library P.O.V

Does any one person have the right to impose a personal set of values on the rest of society? Ex-library employee Sharon Cook thinks so and stands by her morals, even though her actions also got another woman fired. The … Continue reading

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Quotable Credo

I’ll pull a few things out worth noting about this column in the Times, Religions tell us who we are and what we need to be by Jonathan Sacks. Atheists tend to think that religion is about God. Of course … Continue reading

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The trouble with bedrock beliefs…

..would be their inability to change without applying great force. I can’t say I see that as a good thing, unlike columnist Rebecca Hagelin at the Washington Post in a recent piece. “Of course I dislike the Nazis. But who … Continue reading

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A rethinking of “clothes make the man”

While poking around the interwebs for an idea, I came across this guest opinion piece by a pastor, Dr. Timothy Paul Jones. He’s writing about the challenge of dressing one’s kids appropriately in an age of low slung jeans and … Continue reading

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