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When the board met earlier this week, neither item was on the agenda. The reason, according to board chairman Robert Queen, is because the board is not yet ready to tackle those issues. "I expect the attorney selection committee to have a recommendation for the board at the meeting on the 25th," said Queen in an email to The Shelby Star. "Display of the Ten Commandments is still with the Policy Committee that has not had time to meet yet.  There is no deadline for them to report." The latter issue has become a hot-button one of late, even drawing attention from national organizations focuse...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States reminds us that we each have a role in healing every last vestige of racial inequality, and starting from a spiritual standpoint empowers each of us to do our part.

The administration building for Cleveland County Schools, Shelby, N.C. | Google Maps A North Carolina school board is exploring the possibility of putting Ten Commandments displays near the entrances at each of its school buildings, a possibility that has upset a secular legal group. The Cleveland County School Board first discussed the idea at its Dec. 14 board meeting, drawing support and criticism in the last week from opposing national First Amendment legal groups.  During the December meeting, board member Ron Humphries "made a motion to prepare, or have prepared, a policy requiring...

Why ‘Amen And A-Woman’ Is Far Worse Than It Might Seem; The prayer's true scandal was largely ignored -- and is indicative of a widespread societal shift toward a serious and dangerous misunderstanding of both Christianity and tolerance. Posted on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver caused a social media storm Monday, closing a public prayer with “Amen and a woman,” as if the Hebrew word meaning “let it be” was somehow gendered. Cleaver, of course, later claimed the embarrassing episode was actually “a lighthearted pun” in recognition of women, a description that might draw water on paper,...

January 6, 2021 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver caused a social media storm Monday, closing a public prayer with “Amen and a woman,” as if the Hebrew word meaning “let it be” was somehow gendered. Cleaver, of course, later claimed the embarrassing episode was actually “a lighthearted pun” in recognition of women, a description that might draw water on paper, but which the video clearly shows is not the case. But there’s far more than simple ignorance on display in the Democrat and Methodist pastor’s blessing of the new year’s legislative session. The prayer’s true scandal was largely...