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Randy Alcorn's Blog: civil rights

School Officials Face Possible Jail Time for Public Prayer

Praying handsTo be honest, I sometimes tire of all the emailed and website warnings I receive about how the civil rights of Christians are being eroded. Yes, there is usually some truth in them, but overstatement as well. So I’m sometimes skeptical.

In this case, however, posting this article from the
Washington Times seems appropriate. I don’t know the details of the case, but the possibility of jail time for a principal and athletic director, for reasons of public prayer, definitely gets my attention. If someone believes some of the content of this article to be incorrect, please provide ...

Lincoln's logic on slavery extends to all human rights

Abraham LincolnHappy birthday to my favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. While he still held to some racist stereotypes, he managed to rise above the worldview of his era and affirm the wrongness of slavery and the rights of all people.

What Lincoln wrote below applies not only to slavery and racism, but to other human rights issues such as sexism and abortion:

You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a ...

Volition: a Terrific 15-minute Film

VolitionFour days ago I watched a short film called "Volition" that is extremely powerful and well done. It's a great investment of fifteen minutes. I watched it twice. I highly recommend that you grab a cup of coffee and view this, undistracted. Maybe have your family watch it together after dinner. I really like this one!

It was filmed mainly in three days in August on a small budget, to be entered in a short film contest. There's not much info on it on the web yet, so likely you haven't heard of it. But when you ...

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