Enid pastor Wade Burleson has released a book detailing his three-year conflict with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Burleson, who pastors Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, made national news in January 2006 when he challenged an IMB decision that disqualified Baptist missionary candidates who spoke in tongues. COOPERATING CONSERVATIVES CLOSED-DOOR MEETINGS […]
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Initiative links farmers, businesses to help reduce carbon footprint
The Oklahoma Carbon Initiative, a program of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, is helping state farmers earn money when they practice sustainable agriculture and reduce greenhouse gases. The initiative brokers contracts between the farmers ” whose sustainable practices create carbon credits ” and the individual or organization that needs to purchase those credits, allowing […]
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Sister has been constant OKC presence since 1973
When the subject is Midtown, the City Council can expect to have a habit-wearing nun sitting in the gallery. Even when she doesn’t speak up, which is often, Sister Veronica Higgins attends the meetings to support new businesses in Midtown and to petition the council for safety measures for the area and for Villa Teresa […]
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Traveling exhibit from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum stops in Oklahoma City
An exhibit featuring the Nazi obsession with creating a master race is on display at Science Museum Oklahoma through July 5. “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” is a traveling exhibit compiled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. PRACTICE OF EUGENICS SERIOUS QUESTIONS SEEK HUMAN PERFECTION Edie Roodman, executive director of the Jewish Federation […]
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What’s legal, what’s not when it comes to transporting alcohol?
As two of the biggest drinking occasions of the year occur next week ” St. Patrick’s Day and spring break ” both are opportunities to overindulge. Consequently, area police increase their presence in the hope of reducing alcohol-related traffic accidents. Knowing a little about Oklahoma’s labyrinthine drinking laws can help save you some serious legal […]
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Group offers introduction to nonviolent communication
Compassionate Communication Oklahoma (CCO) is offering a free introduction to nonviolent communication from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday on the campus of Oklahoma City University. Nonviolent communication, or NVC, is a movement and process started by Marshall Rosenberg, a Jewish man who experienced firsthand the effects of anti-Semitism, as well as witnessed the violence directed […]
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Religious youth movements push concept of saving oneself for marriage
Dani Brunet was in college the first time she had sex. She was 20, a sophomore at Southern Nazarene University, and one of the few female religion majors in her class. She grew up in a Nazarene family, and, like many Nazarene kids, she was taught that Christians save sex until marriage. ‘GIFT’ GIVINGPRIVATE PLEDGE […]
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Book examines the difference between historical Christ, modern incarnation
The cover of former Oklahoma Gazette commentary writer Robin Meyers’ new book, “Saving Jesus from the Church,” features a piece of tape over the mouth of Jesus Christ. The imagery and title are intentionally provocative. Meyers, pastor of Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, said he hopes the book provokes a conversation between various factions […]
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Oklahoma health-care workers split on ‘right of conscience’ rule
Oklahoma health care workers are divided along familiar lines with respect to a new federal rule. The “right of conscience” rule, signed by President George W. Bush on Dec. 18, extends federal protection to health care workers who have a “reasonable” connection to the delivery of health care services, including pharmacists, nurses and, conceivably, custodians, […]
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Vietnamese refugees have made a home in Oklahoma City
Hoa Tran left Vietnam on a U.S. Navy ship the day Saigon fell, April 30, 1975. He would not see his family again for four years. Tran was one of more than 700,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled in the days, weeks and even years after Gen. Van Tien Dung’s North Vietnamese army occupied Saigon, bringing […]