Keep your kids away from patriotic events – celebrating America’s heritage will turn them into Republicans. That’s the finding from Harvard University. Furthermore, Democratic candidates need not bother attending Independence Day, say the researchers, since the events only energize right-wingers. “Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend’s July 4th parades” writes Paul Bedard in the June…

She’s just one woman working alone — driven by the horror she has seen first hand. She’s Sister Hatune, a nun in a Syrian Orthodox convent in Germany. She is trying to get the word out of the growing number of attacks on Christian little girls in Iraq — children as young as 9 being ruthlessly raped and…

Here’s the story of Jonah and the Whale as told by a very articulate little cutie.  From this second grader’s perspective, Ninevah’s sin was they didn’t care about each other. Or that Jonah didn’t want to go because everybody would laugh at him. And you probably didn’t realize that one of the problem with being inside…

The Arizona junior high schoolers weren’t trying to cause any problems. They just had a great idea: hey, let’s pray for the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. They were taking a walking tour of Capitol Hill with their teacher Maureen Rigo when they paused and bowed their steps. Standing on the Oval Plaza of…

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