Archive for August, 2011

Guy Penrod Concert

By Clayton Heeren • Aug 12th, 2011 • Category: As Heard on Faith Radio

GUNN PRODUCTIONS and Tim Mikkels presents an encore performance of Gospel Music favorite Guy Penrod at the Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls on September 26.



Air Force Suspends “Just War Theory”

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) _ The Air Force has suspended a course that nuclear missile launch officers were required to take called “Christian Just War Theory.” David Smith, spokesman for the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command, says the course will be revised after complaints about its use of Bible passages to show that [...]



Rembrant’s Jesus to Display in Philadelphia

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art takes a fresh look at religious paintings, drawings and prints by one of history’s most revered artists. “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” contains works from museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. The exhibition of more than 50 works by [...]



Prayer Ban Upheld

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

UNDATED (Religious Liberties) – The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ban on praying in Jesus’ name before public meetings. The ACLU and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the Board of Commissioners in Forsyth, North Carolina in 2007, because opening prayers mentioned Jesus. Judge Paul [...]



Senate Chaplain Prays for Impasse

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

WASHINGTON (AP) _ During frantic efforts to resolve the debt impasse, Senate Chaplain Barry Black has compared Congress to a sinking ship and a burning building. In the invocation before Sunday’s Senate session, Black prayed, “Save us, O God, for the waters are coming in upon us.” In Monday’s invocation, Black said he believes in [...]



New York Mayor Defends 9/11 Cross

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

NEW YORK (ChristianPost) The Mayor of New York City is defending the 9/11 cross at the World Trade Center. Michael Bloomberg has been named in a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists seeking to remove the World Trade Center Cross from a memorial commemorating those who died in the September 11 attacks. The New [...]



Texas governor says prayer rally won’t be political

By admin • Aug 2nd, 2011 • Category: Uncategorized

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Gov. Rick Perry says this coming Saturday’s prayer rally in Houston is “about lifting up the name of Jesus” and asking God to give America hope and direction. Perry told FRC Radio’s Washington Watch Weekly that he and a group of friends were talking about how to solve America’s problems [...]