In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre at a gay nightclub, both Gov. Bill Haslam and House Speaker Beth Harwell tweeted to followers encouraging them to pray for Orlando. The gall, the unmitigated gall, of these people who have worked…
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Controversial Imam Moving to Nashville
The imam who helped guide the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro through harsh opposition and a legal fight to build its new mosque soon will serve as the spiritual leader of a congregation in Nashville. The Islamic Center of Nashville has…
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Locals Honor Catholic Schools’ Week
Last week was quite a week for the more than 5,800 students and the hundreds of faculty and staff who make up today’s Catholic school community in Middle Tennessee. But the celebration of this community is really a celebration of…
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South Boasts Many Churches, But Few True Believers
Prayers said and the closing hymn sung, tea-drinking churchgoers fill Marble City Grill for Sunday lunch. But hard on their heels comes the afternoon crowd: craft beer-drinking, NFL-watching football fans. Such a scene would have been impossible just months ago…
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TN Educators Urge Coverup of Islamic Indoctrination in Schools
The Tennessee School Boards Association is telling districts to fight a records request from a conservative legal group that’s trying to get school districts across Tennessee to divulge what they’re teaching middle-schoolers about Islam. The American Center for Law &…
Read MoreAmericans Are Abandoning Christianity
More adults are not identifying with any organized religion while the number of Christians in the U.S. has declined sharply, according to a Religious Landscape Study from the Pew Research Center. The number of people age 18 and older surveyed…
Read MoreState House Passes Bible Bill It Knows Is Unconstitutional
A bill seeking to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee would violate separation of church and state provisions in the federal and state constitutions, state Attorney General Herbert Slatery said in a legal opinion Monday. The opinion was…
Read MoreChristianity, the Religion of Losers
When he was nothing but a suspended carcass, dripping with his own blood and other people’s spit, there were no worshippers around clapping their hands and singing their hymns. They were long gone. At the very end, ironically at the…
Read MoreAmerican Catholics Ask Tough Questions on Good Friday
Over the past decade or so I have witnessed some disturbing trends at church. One would have thought that our Lord Jesus Christ had, himself, worn a government-issued uniform, given how much reverence, gratitude, and appreciation we are led to…
Read MoreLocal Christians Struggle With Cognitive Dissonance
Maybe it’s not cognitive dissonance, but there is something allowing my Christian brethren to accept, without unease, views that hold an internal contradiction. This morning, I had to run a quick errand on my way to work. Before that stop,…
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