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What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

A new report reveals that private schools, especially religious schools, are more effective at turning students into engaged citizens than public schools amid concerns about civic literacy among American pupils.?

By Tara García Mathewson Welcome to The Markup, where we use investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public...Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

By Tara García Mathewson Welcome to The Markup, where we use investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public...Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

A group of Christian clergy, theologians and scholars who took part in the inaugural conference of the Yale Divinity School's Center for Public Theology & Policy this week signed a declaration denouncing so-called "religious nationalism."

“We're not being political. We're just trying to get you what you need.”Palm Sunday looked different this year for a small majority-immigrant church in Fort Worth. For part of the service, the pastors invited an immigration lawyer to speak about what to expect if Texas enacts a new law that authorizes the state to arrest and deport migrants.“There is a lot of fear in our church in regard to this law and a lot of uncertainty. … What does it mean? How does it affect their cases?” asked Anyra Cano, one of the pastors.The congregation, mostly first-generation immigrants from Latin America, “knows they can come to us when they have those kinds of questions,” she added.Texas’ Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) comes as the latest salvo amid long-standing tensions between Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over the nation’s immigration enforcement.Last year, over 2.4 million people sought to cross the US-Mexico border. Texas (like other Republican-governed states) has tried to respond by taking matters into its own hands. Abbott signed SB 4 into law in December, making illegal border-crossing not just a federal offense but a state crime.Currently, the bill is tied up in court—a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that SB 4 will remain on hold.The law would allow Texas police to question and detain anyone they suspect of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border. Though SB 4 doesn’t allow arrests in schools, places of worship, or health care facilities, even the possibility of brushes with police officers with deportation power has raised concerns for immigrant communities in Texas—and for the Christian leaders who serve them.Many of the attendees at Cano’s church do have some kind of status, albeit perhaps not a more permanent ...Continue reading...