Bear safely removed from downtown Missoula tree
You can read the article here, but it was this photo from missoulian.com that really caught my attention.
Quran-burning Threat Prompts Alternate Witness by Texas Church
MESQUITE, TX – A United Methodist congregation in this Dallas-area suburb has chosen to respond to a Florida church’s threat to burn Qurans with a positive witness of its own.
While world media focused on Dove World Outreach Center’s threat to burn Qurans on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, leaders of 300-member St. Stephen United Methodist Church collaborated on an alternative: a positive statement about loving enemies.
Members of St. Stephen’s Council on Ministries and Administrative Board came up with an outdoor banner that reads: “We Support Our Troops, Even As We Love Our Enemies. – Matthew 5:44.” The red-white-and-blue banner erected Sept. 10 also includes the cross-and-flame logo that is the official service mark of the congregation’s denomination, The United Methodist Church.
Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results
In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.
Shea Houdmann runs SeekFind, a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible. He says SeekFind is designed “to promote what we believe to be biblical truth” and excludes sites that don’t meet that standard.
Houdmann says a search on his site would not turn up pornography. If you search “gay marriage,” you would get results that argue against gay marriage. And if you type in “Democratic Party,” your first search result is a site on Marxism.