The bored young man stood behind the counter, head in his hands. It was Monday on Balboa Island in Newport Beach and business was really slow at the frozen banana stand. I popped my head in the service window and dangled a Million-dollar bill Gospel tract tantalizingly in front of him. “Did you get one
When police officers in Grand Rapids, Mich., shut down a group of street preachers outside a pagan festival last fall, they infringed upon those preachers’ constitutionally protected free-speech rights. That is the argument behind a lawsuit filed by the Allied Defense Fund against the city on behalf of one of the preachers. Members of a
Speaking of street preaching… I don’t know if Mr. Whitefield was ever arrested at a pagan festival, but he was able to preach to upwards of 20,000 people at a time in the open air. He helped to bring about The Great Awakening in the 18th century. This is his preaching stool! If I lost
Bakersfield–A man doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself afire, apparently to protest a school district’s decision to change the names of winter and summer breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation. The man suffered first and third degree burns on his shoulders and arms, Fire Department Capt. Garth Milam said. He had a sign
CODA: Lionel Herrera
His last words before being executed by lethal injection in Texas were: “I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.”. –He died May 12, 1993