One Young Girl. One Powerful Lesson.

A few weeks ago, a 13-year-old girl was dragged into a stadium in Kismayo, Somalia and buried up to her neck in the dirt in front of 1000 spectators.
As she was buried, she was uttering “Don’t Kill Me, Don’t Kill me.”
Frightened and pleading for her life, after she was buried, over 50 men approached her and threw stones at her head until she was dead.
What was her crime?
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Religulous: Worth a Look This Sunday

I don’t really like to use the term “important” when describing a movie. Sure a movie can be important to the industry. Groundbreaking effects like the original Star Wars or groundbreaking narratives like Pulp Fiction certainly qualify. This may be as close as you can come to an “important” movie in terms of our modern culture.
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Branding Your Faith: Students as Christian Cattle

According to Associated Press writer Doug Whiteman on June 20th, 2008, science teacher John Freshwater of Mount Vernon Middle School in Ohio was fired for burning the image of a cross on to a student’s arm during class.

No. Really.
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Win Ben Stein’s Ignorance!

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Perhaps the most ignorant thing ever said in the history of the planet not said by President Bush…
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