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ethical and spiritual issues.
TODAY'S NEWS - June 28, 2002
This page is updated by 2:00 pm (PST)
What
to take? Evacuees must choose from a lifetime of memories
- Arizona
Republic
When the calls come, when the smoke gets too close,
when 1,800-square-foot lives must fit into 5- by 12-foot trailers, it
all comes down to stuff.
Note: The
questions are not numbered so you won't feel obligated to ask them
in order. Read all of the questions first to see how you want this
dialogue to go.
- As quoted by the author; When everything you own could be destroyed,
what do you take? What would you put on your list of stuff to
take?
- What portrait of yourself does your list paint?
- What scriptures come to mind?
Proverbs 1:13; Ecclesiates 2:24-26;
Mark 10:17-22; James 5:1-6; 1 Timothy 6:17-19
The
race to raise a brainier baby - USA
Today
Fueling this frenzy are new parents who find themselves
under both real and imagined pressure to make sure their tots can compete.
Preschools often require references for admission. Kindergartens expect
kids to arrive with solid number and letter skills. Even President Bush
has weighed in, pushing the three R's over simple play by proposing
to retrain 50,000 Head Start instructors in teaching the alphabet and
other old-school basics. Then there's the sad saga of Elizabeth Chapman,
who famously falsified 8-year-old Justin's IQ and other test scores,
hoping to give him a leg up.
- What would you say is the one thing most parents, or even society
for that matter, think they can do to help their kids be successful?
- What do you think is the most important thing parents can do to
help their children turn out right and be successful? What do you
think is the one thing you could know and understand that would make
everything else in life fall into place? (character)
- What scriptures come to mind?
1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Timothy
6:20; Proverbs 1:7; 20:11
Use the Bible tool below and type
in "character" and include study tools. Check out Nave's
Topical Bible to the right of your results.
SIDE ORDERS - other news
from today
Judging
God - Wall Street Journal
This is just what we need. Amid mass murder on U.S. soil,
a difficult war on terror, the fires of hell consuming Colorado and
Arizona, the stock market extinguishing people's wealth, almost ungraspable
fraud alleged at WorldCom, the phenomenon of suicide bombers, the threat
of biowarfare, Martha Stewart hurled into media purgatory--amid this,
the federal appeals court in San Francisco decides now is the moment
to declare that God is dead.
Judge
undoes his own Pledge of Allegiance ruling -
San Jose Mercury News
From the halls of the U.S. Justice Department to a tiny
classroom in a Sacramento suburb, a federal appeals court ruling that
banned the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools was still roiling
the nation Thursday, even as the author of the legal lightning bolt
tried to dampen the furor with a temporary stay on its effect.
Vouchers
Have Overcome - Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday struck the greatest
blow for equal public education since Brown v. Board of Education in
1954. In the process it also stripped away the last Constitutional and
moral figleaf from those who want to keep minority kids trapped in failing
public schools.
Judge
dismisses lawsuit filed by ambulance worker fired for doughnut stop
- ABC Houston
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former
ambulance driver who claimed he was wrongfully fired after stopping
for doughnuts while transporting a patient to a hospital.
Christian
Parents Sue After Students 'Become Muslims' -
CNS News
A public school in Byron, Calif. is being sued after
forcing Christian students to pretend they were Muslims for three weeks.
Muslim
woman to challenge ban on veil in driver's license photo - CNN
A judge ruled Thursday that a Muslim woman can pursue
her legal fight to wear a veil for a driver's license photo, despite
objections from the state that it jeopardizes public safety.
Why
men drag their feet down the aisle - USA Today
Young men won't commit to marriage because they are so
comfortable with their current arrangement — just living with a
woman — that they don't see why they should bother, a new study
from Rutgers University says. A divorce could cost megabucks. And as
great as it would be to have kids, the men are a bit put off by the
expectation that they will share child-care burdens equally with their
wives. The findings are from Rutgers' National Marriage Project, which
released a report Tuesday on the top 10 reasons young men won't marry.
The observations won't startle anyone who follows the travails of the
unmarried young. But still, the report will probably inflame the current
debate on commitment that is taking place from academic campuses to
singles' bars.
LEFTOVERS - previous dialogues
Thursday - June 27, 2002
Flap After Court Rules Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional
Wednesday - June 26, 2002
Spanking May Make Kids Violent, Analysis Finds
Sign Threatens Potential Car Thieves
Tuesday - June 25, 2002
Democracy for Palestinians
For Some, Tag Joins Dodgeball as Playground Pariah
Leveled Playing Field?
Monday - June 24, 2002
Suicide over hair-do
FBI: Major Crime Up 2 Percent
Friday - June 21, 2002
School district bans piercing beyond ears
Nintendo puts out toys for big boys
Thursday - June 20, 2002
Larger passengers pay more on Southwest Air
Wednesday - June 19, 2002
Jumbo-Sized Junk Food
Lure of Millions Fuels 9/11 Families' Feuding
Tuesday - June 18, 2002
Atheists protest Ground Zero cross
Family sues church over new admissions policy
Monday - June 17, 2002
Men challenging laws forcing non-fathers to pay child support
Friday - June 14, 2002
Southern pastor works to deliver his flock from credit-card debt
Father's day, what's to celebrate?
Thursday - June 13, 2002
Parents appeal required use of report cards
Father's day, what's to celebrate?
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