Jerry Lewis has been abruptly dismissed as the host of the annual Labor Day muscular dystrophy telethon. “Jerry Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association are making a mess of parting ways,” writes Timothy Mangan in the Orange County Register, “but aren’t saying why they are after 45 years and raising more than $1 billion for the nonprofit…

“Soon after he became a columnist for the New York Times,” writes Chuck Colson, “David Brooks wrote that people were ‘misinformed’ about Evangelicals. Part of the reason, Brooks reasoned, lay in whom the media chose to speak for us: choices that made as much sense as having ‘Britney Spears and Larry Flynt discuss D. H. Lawrence.’…

North Carolina’s Forsyth County Board of Commissioners was wrong to allow opening prayers that end “in Jesus’ name,” a federal appeals court has ruled. In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., has ruled in favor of two county residents who complained that they were offended at hearing “in Jesus’…

When workers were cleaning up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, they found a steel girder that had been sheared on both sides to form a cross. As America cheered, workers raised the cross-shaped steel beam in the midst of the rubble as a symbol of hope. Now an atheist…

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