WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case surrounding whether high school graduations may be held in churches, allowing a lower court ruling to stand that declared the practice to be unconstitutional. The court issued its denial on Monday, with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissenting. “It is perhaps the job […]
BRAWLEY, Calif. — The salutatorian at a high school in California recently defied school administrators who disallowed him from speaking about his faith at graduation, presenting a bold Christian speech that urged his classmates to stand for what is right. Brooks Hamby is a senior at Brawley Union High School. In a YouTube video posted […]
FAYETTE, Mo. — A Missouri school district has reached a settlement with a national humanist organization that filed a lawsuit in federal court over alleged practices that it said violated the U.S. Constitution by promoting Christianity on campus. The American Humanist Association (AHA) of Washington had filed suit in November 2013 against the Fayette School District […]
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The head of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offered an emotional apology to Southern Baptists for accepting a Muslim student into his school’s Ph.D. program — an unusual step for an evangelical seminary but one other schools have taken for years. “I made an exception to a rule that I assumed, probably wrongly, […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. — A university in North Carolina has been ordered to pay over $710,000 in attorney’s fees for discriminating against a Christian professor in denying him a promotion because of his beliefs. As previously reported, Mike Adams works as a professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University […]
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A Christian group at a liberal arts college in Maine has lost its recognition for refusing to follow the school’s ‘anti-discrimination’ policy by requiring group leaders to be born again Christians. Bowdoin Christian Fellowship has been recognized on the campus of Bowdoin College for the past forty years. But after this summer, it will […]
EWING, Va. — Members of the senior class at a high school in Virginia defied the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) demand to remove a Christian song from their graduation ceremony this past Friday, which would have ended a 70-plus year tradition at the school. Students at Thomas Walker High School in Ewing lined up after […]
A research study published in the latest Journal of American Medical Association: Psychiatry concludes that the more pornography a person watches, the less gray matter, connectivity and activity they have in their brain. Numerous negative effects of pornography are already well documented. For instance, boys who consume pornography daily show more interest in deviant and […]
SEATTLE — A lone gunman was disarmed and held until police arrived after he killed one student and injured three others yesterday on the campus of a private Christian university in Seattle. Aaron Ybarra, 26, was taken into custody on Thursday following the incident at 3:30 p.m. local time after he walked into the Otto […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House of Representatives has passed a bill protecting students’ rights to religious expression, and allowing teachers and other staff members to voluntary participate in student prayers before or after school. According to reports, SB 370 was presented in response to a recent situation where an elementary school student was prohibited […]