Some are saying it’s a new front in the culture wars. Back in August, CNN ran a story about about a group called “Back to School-PA” that is throwing money at anti-mask candidates. In Delaware, a group called “Stand Up […]
COVID-19
Thank you pastor Reverend Keith Marshall!
Marshall is the pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Enumclaw, Washington.
COVID-19 at Christian Colleges–Update for September 22, 2021
Here are some of the latest numbers. Compare with our August 31,  September 8, and September 15 updates. Messiah University (as of September 21): 33 active cases. 72.8% vaccination rate. Cases have nearly doubled since last week. Liberty University (as of September 15): 175 […]
Pastor Kate tells pastor Penny to mask up. Pastor Penny responds by turning her Sunday morning service into a political rally.
Kate Murphy is pastor of The Grove Presbyterian Church, a Presbyterian Church-USA congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. Penny Maxwell is Senior Pastor of Freedom House Church, a non-denominational megachurch with multiple campuses in the Charlotte area. She co-pastors with her […]
Vaccines work
WellSpan Health is a health care system that covers South-Central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. The WellSpan hospitals released this statement yesterday: As of today, at WellSpan Health hospitals we are now treating over 200 patients for COVID-19 once again and […]
1200 Covid-19 cases later, Liberty University returns to in-person classes without an indoor mask requirement
Here is WSLS News: Liberty University resumed in-person classes Monday, following a two-week mitigation period to slow the spread of COVID-19. On September 8, the university reported 463 active cases, with more than 1,800 people instructed to quarantine. “I think it’s too little and late. […]
COVID-19 at Christian Colleges–Update for September 15, 2021
Here are some of the latest numbers. Compare with our August 31 and our September 8 updates. Messiah University (as of September 14): 17 active cases. 72.1% vaccination rate. Cases are up slightly from last week. Liberty University (as of September 8): 463 […]
COVID-19 at Christian colleges: update
COVID-19 at Liberty University is still out of control, but this did not stop the university from having full capacity at their football game last weekend. Cedarville University seems to be getting things under control after a disastrous first week […]
Why there should be no “religious exemptions” to vaccine mandates
We have posted about Curtis Chang before. He is the co-founder of Christians and the Vaccine and a faculty member at Duke Divinity School. Here is a taste of his recent op-ed at The New York Times: First, there is […]
Is there a link between complementarianism and the proper evangelical response to mask wearing?
Some evangelical groups facing mask mandates in their local school districts are sharing sample religious exemption forms that their fellow evangelicals can use. Here is one that came across my feeds today: I, _________, hereby state that I have chosen […]
Tweet of the day
From a Seminole County, Florida school board meeting: Based on what he says here, Michael Beck should be pro-choice on abortion, but something tells me he is not. Here is his entire speech. It picks up at the 1:48:10 mark:
What happens when an Illinois middle-school history teacher wears a pro-vaccine mask to a “meet and greet” with parents?
I have been working with and training K-12 teachers for nearly two decades and Matt Lakemacher is one of the best middle school history teachers I know. His passion for the study of the past is contagious and his creativity […]
In my adult life I have never met so many people “doing research.” Here is one example of where such “research” is leading people.
I tweeted about “research” last night: I am talking to more and more people who will not take the COVID-19 vaccine, but have no problem taking the horse-deworming drug Ivermectin. They are “doing their research” despite the fact that the […]
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COVID-19 continues to sweep through the Liberty University campus
488 cases and over 1000 students in quarantine. Get up to speed here and here. Here is the local ABC affiliate: Even though Liberty University implemented a temporary campus-wide quarantine on Monday, the total number of active coronavirus cases and […]
California settles with John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church
Here is Alejandra Melina at Religion News Service: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Aug. 31) voted to authorize a $400,000 payment to settle a legal battle with Grace Community Church over lead pastor John MacArthur’s defiance […]
John MacArthur had COVID-19 in December 2020 as the virus swept through Grace Community Church
So let’s begin this post with a little history. In late May 2020, John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, announced that the church would return to face-to-face worship for the first time since the […]
COVID-19 at Christian colleges
With the Delta variant moving rapidly through the campus of Liberty University and Cedarville University, we thought we would check-in on some other Christian colleges and universities to see how things are going. (NOTE: Some of these campuses started classes […]
Digby asks, “How many talkers will die for MAGA?
The number of pro-Trump, anti-vaxxer/anti-mandate talk radio hosts who have died of COVID-19 is growing. Over at Hullaballo blog, Heather Parton makes a list: Marc Bernier, the host of the Marc Bernier Show, compared the government’s vaccine strategy to the […]
University of Georgia professor quits mid-class after student refuses to properly wear her mask
His name is Irwin Bernstein. Here is Danie Kalaji atThe Red & Black: A University of Georgia retiree-rehire professor resigned on Tuesday after one of his students refused to properly wear a mask in an upper division psychology seminar class […]