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4:36 pm

Wed April 10, 2013

6 classic Brother Jed rants

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Brother Jed in Speaker's Circle.

By Scott Pham

For about 10 years now, "Brother Jed" Smock has been spreading a hellfire-and-damnation style Christian message in college campuses all around the country.

Politics

9:33 am

Tue March 12, 2013

'Medical Conscience' Bill Receives 1st-Round Approval From Mo. House

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By Marshall Griffin

Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 9:55 pm

Updated 12:02 p.m. Edited formatting 12:44 p.m.

Health care workers could refuse to participate in procedures or research that violates their religious, moral or ethical principles under a measure passed by the Missouri House.

The House sent the measure to the Senate Tuesday with a 116-41 vote.

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Faith/Religion

3:21 pm

Fri February 8, 2013

Westminster College launches lecture series on religion and C.S. Lewis

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Cliff Cain is the first to hold the Harrod-C.S. Lewis Professorship in Religious Studies at Westminster College in Fulton.

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Sharon Harrod, Cliff Cain and Jim Harrod share excitement before a Westminster College lecture. The Harrods initiated the Harrod-C.S. Lewis Professorship in Religious Studies as a way to give back to the college; Cain is the first to hold the position.

By Kellie Kotraba

For some, there's a clear separation of religion from reason, reason from religion.

But that's not the way author C.S. Lewis saw it.

To him, religion and reason went together. That idea was the foundation of a talk on Thursday at Westminster College in Fulton.

Agriculture

5:37 pm

Thu September 27, 2012

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

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"It is pure sand dunes," Atchison County Sheriff Dennis Martin said, of Corning, Mo. land still covered with sand a year after surging Missouri River waters receded. "Before the weeds started growing up, it looked like the moon."

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Down the road, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the flood's casualties. It closed after waters rose three feet high. Then the water sat there for months.

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A mud line marks how high the waters went on the 1893 Gothic Revival building.

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A toilet graveyard sits behind the church.

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The one-room 1912 schoolhouse behind the church is still caked with dried-up mud the river left behind. It also sustained water damage in 1952 and 1993.

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The waters put this schoolhouse stove under water. Church elders don't know if and how they will re-open the church.

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But Sheriff Martin says Corning is resilient. "We're going to see crop ground ... that has been renovated and the expense they are going to try to get this back in production has got to be phenomenal. But it is their life … it’s their home."

By Abbie Fentress Swanson

Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

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