Author Archives: Curtis

Biblical Marriage

The past couple weeks there’s been an image floating around The Facebooks which questions that the Bible consistently maintains “traditional marriage.” Interesting (to me, anyway) is that the biblical references are exclusively from the the first five books written Hebrew Scriptures, referred to as the Torah (or Pentateuch, by non-Jews). This is fine, of course!

Backyard Plants

“You have backyard plants in your frontyard” he exclaims, from his Razor scooter riding toward Radford on the sidewalk across the street. Wearing his school’s uniform with his backpack on social studies book inside he’s just being nice. We both know they are weeds. “Maybe the weeds at his house are only in the backyard?”

Religious Americans in a Secular World

GOOD, in collaboration with Column Five Media, created what they call a “Transparency”, “a graphical exploration of the data that surrounds us”, based on findings of the Pew Research Center. They note: Sociologists have generally concluded that people who are very religiously active tend to be less engaged with the secular world, opting to stay

WJMS

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that surveyed Christians recognize their political views don’t match Jesus’. In an article entitled “What Jesus Might Say Is Debated in Survey of Christian Politics”, Nicole Ostrow of Bloomberg News, writes Christians in the U.S. who labeled themselves politically liberal or conservative told researchers Jesus wouldn’t necessarily agree with their