The inauguration of Oklahoma’s new governor, Kevin Stitt, was a series of celebratory events around the state. It ended with a prayer service the day after the inauguration that was timed as a way to symbolize how Stitt will put God first in his new administration. As a preacher, I applaud the effort of the […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Amen’s game
A coach-led prayer at a high school football team has a First Amendment group in protest.
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The Non-Prophet Book of Common Prayer offers secular blessings for the hurting
The book from Literati Press opens with a release show and art exhibition Friday at Paseo Plunge.
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Letters to the Editor: Jan. 25, 2017
It takes many incarnations or lives for a soul to make important choices concerning the direction of a community, city or country.
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Chicken-Fried News: Pray day
Mary Fallin made Oct. 13 Oilfield Prayer Day to acknowledge that oil is created by a higher power.
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Read it here: Full Islamic Society of Greater OKC statement on Orlando attack
This heinous act contradicts the Holy Month plus the very teachings and practices of Islam. This is against our beliefs.
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Chicken-Fried News: Sexy science?
A professor at OU found a correlation between prayer and church attendance and increased levels of pornography use.
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Letters to the Editor: March 4, 2014
Shannon has now thrown down the challenge to candidate, congressman and former church-camp worker James Lankford. Which candidate can be the holiest? Lankford will remind us of his godliness, but he will have to fight fire with fire and get out ahead of Shannon’s background cross. So what might work? Lankford could go out to […]
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Most Fabulous donation
That letter was sent to the governor’s office and all members of the state Legislature, among others. They said the play, which is a satirical look at “Adam and Steve” in the Garden of Eden, violates Oklahoma’s obscenity laws. The pastors wanted the play closed and the producers and actors held accountable by law enforcement. […]
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Speak for the trees
Organizers from the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, Oklahoma Conference of Churches and the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma’s Whole Creation Community ministry have planned three prayer services to take place in the next few months. “We really need an opportunity to be alert to the fact that water conservation, stewardship of water resources, is absolutely […]