(1) Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry agrees to drop Common Core lawsuit
Edwards has never been a fan of Common Core, but decided Jindal’s lawsuit was expensive and unnecessary when he took office last month. Jindal’s former executive counsel in the governor’s office, Jimmy Faircloth, was paid at least $475,000 to work on the Common Core lawsuit. And the former governor had already lost an initial round of the federal Common Core lawsuit in court, though Faircloth was preparing an appeal.
Edwards, a Democrat, may also not have been as keen to make President Barack Obama’s administration look bad through a Common Core legal challenge as Jindal was.
(2) United Methodist Church: Married lesbian recommended as Provisional Deacon
(3) Scandal of the Day: Christian Heidi Cruz Says Christian Things, by David French (National Review)
In reality, Heidi Cruz’s comment represents a standard (and accurate) expression not just of Evangelical beliefs, but also of American history. Christians aspire to “show the face of God” in all that we do — by imitating as much as we can our Savior, Jesus Christ. We fail often, but we’re better for the effort. As for Cruz’s statement that our nation was built on “Judeo-Christian values,” only sheer ahistorical revisionism would downplay the role of the Christian faith and Judeo-Christian values not just with the Founders, but in the founding generation, and the generations that followed. Though there have been (and are) many notable and patriotic atheists who’ve made immense contributions to American life, atheism did not build the United States of America.
(4) Jesus Banned From NASA Newsletter for Spece Centre Christian Group (The Tablet)
The group of Christian employees, Johnson Space Center Praise & Worship club, included the phrase “Jesus is our life” in an advert for their weekly meeting in a newsletter that was emailed to all employees at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston.
NASA lawyers informed the Christian club leaders at the space centre in Houston, Texas, that using Jesus’ name made the announcement sectarian and denominational and including it in an agency newsletter was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
(5) Does the Faith of a Presidential Candidate Matter? by Drew Griffin (Relevant)
As Christians, we know that true wisdom is not found in an appreciation of history or an application of political talent. Wisdom begins with a fear of the Lord, an appreciation of His power and our place beneath it. Our founding fathers designed a government to check and balance power, which mirrored the reality all leaders must recognize; that earthly power is temporary and limited.
Christian faith teaches that, according to Romans 13, leaders rise and fall only due to God’s permission. Presidents that fail to see their limited influence in relation to God’s power often abuse what little power they truly possess. It’s telling that regardless of a president’s faith going into the oval office, almost inevitably, he emerges oddly humbled and more deferential to the presence of God than when he started.
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