David Barton's Wallbuilders Live to Interview Kent Hovind
According to Kent Hovind’s handlers, Hovind will be interviewed by someone at Wallbuilders next Monday. That interview will be taped and presumably aired at a later date. Listen: [youtube]https://youtu.be/7RcNFHjkrWY[/youtube] The basketball star interviews Dr. Dino. Kent Hovind’s most recent legal battle is summarized at Forbes. Hovind is serving jail time for tax related crimes (e.g., failing…
Read MoreSutton Turner: Big Churches Like Mars Hill Church Need Big Decision Makers
Former Mars Hill Church executive elder Sutton Turner has posted part two of his reflections (he posted part one yesterday) on the decision to commit church funds to buy Mark Driscoll’s book Real Marriage on to the New York Times best-seller list. In this post, Turner takes credit for changing Mars Hill by-laws to include the…
Read MoreDesire, Faith & Therapy: Sexual Orientation and Orthodox Jews; Rabbinical Council Rejects JONAH
On Sunday, I participated in a conference titled Desire, Faith and Therapy at the Kraft Jewish Student Center at Columbia University on appropriate therapeutic responses to sexual orientation. The conference was designed for therapists, rabbis and other interested members of the Orthodox Jewish community. From the brochure: “Desire, Faith and Psychotherapy” presents a Psychoanalytic…
Read MoreInstitute on the Constitution Posts Spurious Thomas Jefferson Quote
The Institute on the Constitution just can’t seem to get quotes right. On their Facebook page, the neo-Confederate organization periodically features quotes they claim come from the founders. However, the quote are often spurious. The most recent one attributed to Thomas Jefferson was posted earlier this month: How fitting for the times we are…
Read MoreVoted Off the Island: The Case of Professor Tom Oord – UPDATE: Oord's Layoff on Hold
UPDATE (4/21/15): Apparently, the layoffs are now on hold at NNU. Oord will be able to teach in the summer while the school’s actions are under review. ——————————— The subtitle for Karl Giberson’s Daily Beast article on fired Northwest Nazarene professor Tom Oord sums it up: A beloved professor forced from a Nazarene university this month…
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