A teacher has been found guilty of "unacceptable professional conduct" and branded a "safeguarding risk" for expressing and debating Christian beliefs on gender and marriage in a Church of England school.
Last week Queensland University of Technology announced that it was removing all references to ‘merit’ from its hiring policy. It's symptomatic of a decaying West, says Dr James Allan.
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We were told this would happen. In fact, we were told many times, by the likes of no one less than Jesus Christ himself, but this quote gives a lot of detail since it was later stated, during the fourth century of the Christian era: A monk once asked Abba Pambo, “Is it true, Abba, […]
I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.
― Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas
If a business can be forced to sell something, they don't own it. Coercion violates the inherent right to private property. [...]
Today's political climate is verging dangerously toward using force as a means of silencing opponents. Civil discourse is at a crossroads. We can either accept that violence will rule how we interact with others behind the protection of our computer screens (or openly in the public square) or we can decide to reign in intolerance in the name of tolerance.
During confirmation hearings for Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Senator Bernie Sanders grilled Vought about an article Vought wrote about a faculty firing at Wheaton College. In the article, Vought discussed a range of doctrinal issues, including the theological status of non-Christians.
Iranian Jews pose for photographs holding a painting of Moses with “The Ten Commandments,” after prayers at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Iran is frequently at odds with Israel, despite having the second biggest Jewish community in the Middle East. DW’s Theresa Tropper spoke with the director of Tehran’s Jewish Committee, about why that is the case.
It’s routine. An outside lecturer is invited to speak on campus, to give a different perspective than students might be hearing in the classroom. It seems like the way academia is supposed to work. That is until the lecturer gets shouted down, threatened, and driven from campus.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed the presence of trace amounts of glyphosate in a variety of oat products, including plain and flavored oat cereals for babies. [1]
An FDA chemist compiled data and presented it to other chemists at a meeting in Florida. The evidence revealed that residues of the chemical found in Monsanto’s blockbuster Roundup pesticide was present in several types of infant oat cereal, including banana strawberry- and banana-flavored varieties.
