“Take Back Yoga” is the campaign slogan of a group of Indian-Americans aiming to teach Westerners about the faith that underlies yoga. The Hindu American Foundation, the Minneapolis-based group which started the campaign, aims to raise public awareness of yoga’s foundation in Hinduism. Read more here.
Forde-ism (2)
Forde nixes a third use of the law: “You can’t get flowers to grow by pulling on them.”
Forde-ism (1)
On the advantage of having an office accessible only by climbing up three flights of stairs: “My office is on the top floor of Gullixson so if the rapture comes, I’d be caught in the updraft.”
ELCA clubs farmers; congregation leaves
Anselm Trinity Lutheran Church in Sheldon, North Dakota, has voted to leave the ELCA. The last straw? The proposed ELCA policy document on genetics.[1] It warns that genetic developments in biotech farming could lead to trouble: ● “This church believes that the greatest danger in genetic developments lies in the sinful exercise of radically extended […]
Love your neighbor = support the death penalty
A Connecticut man was sentenced to death Monday for a night of terror inside a suburban home. Read here. Did you know that the ELCA is committed to the abolition of the death penalty?[1] Read the ELCA policy statement here and a critique here. Where do you stand? With the jury? Or the ELCA? A […]