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Pilot Diverts Plane Over Teen's In-Flight Prayer

by Amy Hatch, Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:34AM

The teen was using tefillin, a set of small black boxes attached to leather straps and containing biblical passages. Credit: chaim zvi, Flickr
A devout teen caused a scare in the air Jan. 17 when, while trying to pray, he pulled out a set of ...
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The conservative bias in textbooks

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 29th 2008 11:01AM

Remember the case of the high school history teacher and part-time Baptist youth pastor who used his classtime to preach to his students? Remember the high schooler who taped him doing so and ended up getting a death threat for his trouble? Well, ...
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Parents choose faith over science

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Mar 27th 2008 8:38PM

In what is perhaps the most heated of debates about our children, our beliefs and our medicine, a girl has died after her parents chose prayer over doctors. The girl suffered from a rare form of diabetes. Madeline Kara Neumann, 11, of Wisconsin, ...
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Illinois school board ignores moment of silence

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 10th 2007 5:03PM

The Illinois state legislature overruled the wisdom of their governor and has changed the law to require teachers to "observe a brief period of silence with the participation of all the pupils therein assembled at the opening of every school day." ...
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Saying grace, even toddlers can do it

by Heather Craven, Posted Jan 26th 2007 4:00PM

We are Catholic in our home. Part of that means that we offer a small prayer of thanks before our evening meals. At least that is what it used to mean before my nearly 2 1/2 year old, Devon, caught on to the concept of gratitude. Now whenever he sits ...
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Is it hypocritical to allow Muslim students to pray in schools?

by J.D. Griffioen, Posted Nov 7th 2006 8:35PM

Most of the important Supreme Court decisions that have established the jurisprudence of "separation of church and state" in the U.S. involved school prayer, namely daily teacher-led group prayers in public classrooms. Since those important mid-20th ...
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New Catholic prayer book for teens

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 21st 2006 2:03PM

Boy, I sure could have used something like this when I was younger. Dominican monk Wojciech Jedrzejewski (gesundheit!) of Poland has created a new prayer book aimed at teenagers. The book has upset the Polish Catholic community, but father ...
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