This is a very important discussion for us at Westminster for at the core is our religious teachings and practices. Our President on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 delivered a foreign policy address at the nation's West Point Military Academy in which he stressed American exceptional-ism and spoke repeatedly about "American leadership" and "American strength." Are these the values of our religion or of the moral teachings passed on from generation to generation and which emanate from culture to culture?

On Sunday, June 8th at 10:00am we will welcome the Rev. Dr. Deborah Meinke to Westminster for The College of Wooster Alumni Sunday.  The Rev. Dr. Deborah Meinke graduated from Wooster in 1974 with a BA in Geology, studied trace fossils with Dr. Richard Osgood, and among other activities sang with Dr. Gore and in Westminster church choir. With husband Dave, she moved to Yale University to study evolutionary biology and vertebrate paleontology, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1980. Deb and Dave have lived in Stillwater, OK since 1982, where Dave is on the Botany faculty, while Deb taught biology and advised numerous students at Oklahoma State University. Children Laura and Scott were born and raised in Stillwater, and now are successfully launched into adulthood.  Deb earned her M.Div. from Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK in 2004. She served Grace Presbyterian Church in Grove, OK, then successive interim pastorates in Claremore and Norman, OK. Deb is now the Stated Clerk of Cimarron Presbytery, allowing her to live at home in Stillwater, and still make it to all the relevant meetings. Deb likes herb gardening, reading, traveling, yoga, and cooking, not necessarily in that order .  Deb remains fascinated by science and is thoroughly committed to evolutionary biology and theology.  

Woman Screamed at and Harrassed At Border Patrol Checkpoint

Arivaca is a warm and vibrant community on the Arizona side of the U.S./ Mexico border. Unfortunately for residents, it is also a highly militarized and surveilled zone. In order to go to work, school, or the store, residents must pass through the Arivaca Rd. checkpoint, 25 miles north of the border, where they are subject to abuse and interrogation by Border Patrol agents. Racial profiling and civil rights violations have become the norm. In this video, a white women is screamed at by an agent and forced to exit her car. Community members know that this kind of abuse is typical and often much worse for residents of color. The checkpoint is also responsible for forcing migrants to walk through remote and dangerous desert in order to enter the country, resulting in many deaths. For these and many other reasons community members are fighting to have the checkpoint removed. You can learn more about their campaign at: http://phparivaca.org/ 

by End BP Checkpoints / 1 month ago 

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