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by Patricia Mish, GR Press. May 2006
Audience members Phil and Jane Goodspeed, who attend Fountain Street Church, said they agreed many of the stories in the Bible are “myths” written after Jesus’ lifetime.
GRAND RAPIDS—The Jesus Seminar, a group of liberal Scripture scholars, set off a controversy in the 1990s by concluding that fewer than one in five of the sayings and actions attributed to Jesus Christ in the Bible actually happened. “I…
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by Paul R. Kopenkoskey, GR Press. May 2006
GRAND RAPIDS—The fissures are growing wider in the wall separating church and state, an ACLU official says. In some privacy and civil-rights cases, the bulwark that blocks religion from entangling itself in government has had sections carted off, enabling the…
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by Ron Corby. March 2006
My family comes from a long and strong military tradition. My grandfather fought in Europe during WWI (USA), my father served in Korea and fought in Vietnam (USA). I served twenty years (USAF) and served in Saudi Arabia during the…
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by Charles Honey, Grand Rapids Press Religion Editor. March 2006
Some conservative Christians call evolution “just a theory.” But to Gregory Forbes, it is a scientific principle under attack. He considers it his mission to defend it. “In science, there has never been a more well‑founded theory than evolutionary theory,”…
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by Bob Collins, Spring Lake. December 2005
Grand Haven Tribune I used to think of myself as tolerant and open-minded in the days before Christian Fundamentalists seized power in our country. Now they are busily consolidating that power with attacks against any and all imagined slights, e.g.,…
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