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...preach it every day and in every language. We fight every day to get the bad apple out," he said of those who try to take advantage of the company...
...schools accepted the clubs without hesitation, while others--afraid of blurring the line between church and state--refused. When the Milford Central School District in upstate New York barred the local club four years ago, its leader, the Rev. Stephen Fournier, fought back. If the Boy Scouts could preach their moral message in the K-12 school's convenient location, he asked, why couldn't the club? Fournier lost in the lower courts but hopes to win this last appeal in the nation's highest court...
...page tomes into an easy-to-read 93 pages. At $9.99, it can be bought in multiple copies for friends, like a literary W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do) bracelet. Wilkinson's editor David Kopp reports two influential boosters: James Dobson and his wife Shirley, who heard Wilkinson preach Jabez on a tape during a long drive. Dobson then featured the book on his immensely influential Focus on the Family radio show. Mark Tauber, a religion-book veteran now at the Beliefnet.com website, notes that Wilkinson's 30 years of preaching Jabez at rallies assures "a built-in audience...
Jerusalem was central to the spiritual identity of Muslims from the very beginning of their faith. When the Prophet Muhammad first began to preach in Mecca in about 612, according to the earliest biographies, which are our primary source of information about him, he had his converts prostrate themselves in prayer in the direction of Jerusalem. They were symbolically reaching out toward the Jewish and Christian God, whom they were committed to worshipping, and turning their back on the paganism of Arabia. Muhammad never believed that he was founding a new religion that canceled out the previous faiths...
...distressed by the way you edited my letter [March 19] on AIDS in Africa. I wrote that the "greater responsibility lies within Africa itself to teach, preach and practice biblical sexuality." The final phrase was changed to "practice safe sex." Between these two is a great gulf. "Safe sex," in Africa at least, is generally sex with a condom but without moral constraints. In fact, as your AIDS report pointed out, condoms rarely get used. "Biblical sexuality," by contrast, speaks of the Judeo-Christian view of sex as belonging in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship and involving abstinence before marriage...