Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal earlier this month signed into law a measure that allows student athletes to express their personal religious beliefs during sporting events.
The state House of Representatives has passed the Pastor Protection Act, a measure that assures clergy that they will not be required to perform any marriage, such as gay marriage, which violates their faith, proponents say.
The bad news is already dominating media reports: more Americans are religiously unaffiliated than ever before. The ranks of Protestants and Catholics are declining, and the percentage of atheists and agnostics are increasing. This is true across age groups, though it is most pronounced among young people. But not all the data are discouraging.
In This House, We Will Giggle: Making Virtues, Love, and Laughter a Daily Part of Your Family Life offers parents a practical approach to instilling virtues in their children through laughter, rather than lecture.
A century ago, on 28 July 1914, the first shots of World War I were fired. Over the following four years, 16 million lives were lost as 65 million men from 32 countries were drawn into the conflict. The book that was read and cherished by people on both sides of the conflict was the Bible.
More people, especially Millennials, have skeptical views of the Bible, and fewer young people are reading the Good Book, according to the fourth annual State of the Bible survey.
Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, and Heineken, have pulled their sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade; the Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, has withdrawn its sponsorship of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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