Weblog: Patrick Henry College Gains Pre-Accreditation
The faith-based initiative is dead, 700-year-old Mickey Mouse found, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Todd Hertz and Ted Olsen | posted 11/01/2002 12:00AM
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Other stories of interest:
Pastor sees West Nile ordeal as test of faith' | The "blessings" Benjamin Boerkoel experienced though his ordeal included the absence of spinal meningitis and encephalitis, which can accompany the virus (Advance Newspapers, Michigan)
Logocentrism | "Let's roll!" is itself taking on an increasingly curious afterlife as the specifics of 9/11 recede from public memory (Reason)
Modern horrors on a fundamentalist fright night | Each Halloween, the parishioners of the Trinity Assembly of God Church near Dallas put on an unusual kind of haunted house (The New York Times)
Disgraced Ablett told to grow up | Evangelical football star's nickname is "God." Yesterday he was convicted on drug charges (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Praise be for the new heretics of all faiths | Without controversy institutions die and without institutions there is no democracy, just the vote (Simon Jenkins, The Times, London)
Usury: The biblical ban is mostly ignored in modern times | The biblical prohibition against the charging of usury, or interest on loans, is an interesting example of how many modern Christians have dismissed a biblical commandment to suit the needs of modern times (Gregory Elder, The Redlands Daily Facts, San Bernardino, California)
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