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This is news: Summit Ministries has relocated a summer program from Biola University to another state. Why? From the press release: For more than 55 years, Summit Ministries has held conferences at its headquarters in Manitou Springs, Colo., and across the nation, training nearly a half-million young Christians to become leaders in their schools, communities, churches, families, and country. But the group has had to cancel its June 10-23 and June 24-July 7 sessions at Biola University near Los Angeles due to concerns that California will forbid some of what it teaches.At issue is AB2943, a bill recently passed by...

A speaker at an evangelical Christian college urged students to accept the views of Black Lives Matter and consider themselves as having benefited from white privilege while looking to the Palestinians for inspiration in how to get along with one’s adversaries. The Rev. Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist who teaches at Duke University School of Divinity and authored the book "Disunity in Christ," brought a message of reconciliation and "love without exception" to Biola University in Los Angeles last week. At a conference titled "Love No Matter What: Politics, Sex, Race and the Way of the Cross," Cleveland touted the...

Many Religion forum readers may be interested in hearing what is going on at the GobBlog conference 2006 which opened today in La Mirada, California. Some of the speakers include radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt (broadcasting live from there later today), bloggers La Shawn Barber, Mark D. Roberts among many others. The conference goes through this Sunday October 28th. You can follow it via the main website and at the blogs by many of the speakers. GodBlog Conference 2006 - http://www.godblogcon.com/ La Shawn Barber - (live blogging)http://lashawnbarber.com/ Hugh Hewitt -http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/ Mark D. Roberts -http://www.markdroberts.com/