Is the church dismissing mental health issues with prayer as a solo act? Far too often, the answer is yes. A student recently wrote a letter about his friend’s experience with clinical depression and the church. The friend was told he needed to pray and read the Bible more because he obviously was not doing […]
Public “prayer” was supported by High Court Ruling on Monday, May 5, 2014. The Supreme Court voted in a 5-4 ruling that public piety does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Ceremonial prayers have been practiced in this country from the lowest level of government to the highest […]
Allegedly a five-year-old kindergarten student was told she could not pray over her lunch because “it is not good” to do. Gabriella Perez said she was prevented from praying by a lunch monitor at a school in Oviedo, Florida. Carillon Elementary School has refuted this allegation and insists that this little girl, just as every […]