Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[Houston Chronicle]   Local school districts got a green light Friday to offer high school students an elective Bible course without the specific state standards that some contend are necessary to guide well-intentioned teachers from straying into religious proselytizing. State Board of Education members argued about whether they were obligated to establish specific state standards for the new course approved by state lawmakers last year or allow the 1,039 independent school districts to set up their own course, using existing general guidelines from English and ... Read More

[Yahoo] For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or something," Berger says. It's time that attitude changed, he says. "That was probably never correct, but it's totally false now and I think the image should be corrected," Berger said in a recent interview. Now, his university's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs is leading a two-year project that explores ... Read More

I'm a well educated man.  I'm pretty technical and creative.  I just spent a week developing a new website for our church and I couldn't get it to work.  You know what I did?  I misspelled the city I live in in the domain name!  Oh my, what an idiot!   Read More

 [Tampa Bay.com]   Before a Davidsen Middle School teacher started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, she told the boy she could help him overcome his shyness, according to a new court filing.  Read about it here.   [From me]  This has to be the worst excuse yet.  "She was helping him with his shyness!"  Oh, what a line!  What is in the water in the Tampa area?  What do you think?  Read More

[CBC News] Faith-based schools that teach creationism in science class won't receive the public funding Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have proposed, a party spokeswoman said. “If there are schools that teach creationism in science class, they would not be eligible to be funded as part of this proposal,” Ingrid Thompson said Wednesday afternoon, clarifying controversial remarks made by PC Leader John Tory earlier in the day. Read about it here. [From me] I guess tolerance only applies to those who are opposed to Judeo-Christian values.  Nothing like teaching a balanced ... Read More