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Sandra Rawline, a 52-year-old branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, has been fired from her job because of her gray hair, according to the Houston Chronicle. When her boss informed her that the company’s headquarters would be moving to a more upscale neighborhood, Rawline was told she’d need to start wearing “younger fancy suits”…

In case you haven’t been paying attention, now it’s not fashionable to support Focus on the Family.  That’s the message from TOMS Shoes founder Black Mycoskie. Following criticism from liberal fashionistas, he has assured the politically correct that he certainly isn’t tolerant of Dr. James Dodson. Apparently the cultural diversity he envisions for America does not include the millions of…

In today’s culture, preaching will not be effective if Christians are not also highly effective, writes Dr. Timothy Keller on the website Redeemer City to City. “In our times, people will be indifferent or hostile to the idea of attending church services without positive contact with Christians living out their lives in love and service,”…

Ronald Reagan’s First Lady Nancy has turned 90. She observed the occasion quietly at home with family. An iron-willed woman, she has been credited with pushing Reagan to seek the presidency. Outspoken, she was one of the first modern conservative women to reap the constant ridicule of the news media — which aimed unending, weathering…

Shi Enhao, a leader in China’s growing underground church movement, disappeared last month — and it turns out he’s been in police custody, held on “suspicion of using superstition to undermine national law enforcement.” Shi is one of as many as 150 million Chinese Christians who refuse to join the Communist Party’s Three-Self Patriotic Movement…

With the national debt taking up most of Congress’s summer efforts, Congressman Charlie Rangel made a special plea to his colleagues that made all the Sunday morning news shows — telling fellow Congressman that in voting on whether to raise the debt ceiling, they should consider: “What would Jesus do this weekend?” Former presidential hopeful, Arkansas…

Julie Bass got the idea from First Lady Michelle Obama — why not plant what during World War II was called a “Victory Garden” — a small veggie garden in her yard? After all, “The price of organic food is kind of through the roof,” says the Detroit-area mom. “We thought it’d be really cool…

Vladimir Putin was sent to Russia by God, the Kremlin’s top political adviser says. Meanwhile, a Moscow sect reportedly is convinced Putin is the reincarnation of the Apostle Paul.  “To be honest, I think of Putin as a person who was sent to Russia by fate and the Almighty at a difficult hour,” Vladislav Surkov, the…

Her boss, Florida State Attorney Robert “Skip” Jarvis, didn’t like the speeches KrisAnne Hall was making. He gave her a choice — quit accepting speaking engagements or lose her job as an assistant state attorney in Jarvis’ office. She refused and was fired. So, she filed a federal discrimination lawsuit. Last week, she settled out…

The last time a 1933 gold “double eagle” sold, it went for $7.6 million. That was nine years ago. Now the heirs of late coin dealer Israel Switt want to sell ten of the coins they found in a Wanamakers department store bag after Switt died. The U.S. government, asked by the family to verify the coins’…
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