Oy vey.
“Students and their families should not have to choose between attending graduation and being subjected to proselytizing religious messages,” said Alex Luchenitser, senior litigation counsel for Americans United, in a statement Wednesday. “Yet that is exactly the choice that the Enfield Schools impose on students and their families.”
From Connecticut House of Prayer:
This is a morning of prophetic and/or “harp & bowl” style of worship and intercession. As described in Tommy Tenney’s book, we spend one day each month “chasing after God”…..chasing the One Who chases after us! A New Song is being released in the land [...]
Covenant Church of Easton will host an interdenominational Bible study presented in four, 15-week segments covering a range of topics, including: Discipleship Defined, Created and Called by God, The Disintegration of Relationships, The Grace of God Provides a Way of Escape, and others.
Courses are held Thursdays beginning January 14 through [...]
Will a tax revolt this be the ultimate trickle-down economic effect? Revenue is drying up not only at the Federal level but is now doing so, as was inevitable, at the State and local levels. I’ll go out on a [...]
Help support Bethel Temple Church Of God on Frank Street, in need of about $6,000 to replace stolen equipment.
Pastor Larry Pinkard will invoke the prophet Nehemiah from the pulpit Sunday — and tell a tale about how walls will be rebuilt on Frank Street.
The sermon will touch on the tale [...]
There will be a Middlesex County Prayer Watch on Saturday, December 5, 2009, from 6 p.m. – 12 a.m. at WIHS Radio Station, 1933 South Main Street, Middletown, CT.
This will be 6 hours of intercession for radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and all who report the news. Can you spare an [...]
IN his column today, The Courant’s Rick Green says farewell to the old economy, complete with a scary graphic showing that Connecticut has lost over 15,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year. And then Mr. Green wonders if anyone is listening.
Actually, considering his appearance on the panel with Peter [...]
We apologize for the late notice on this one, but Moms in Touch International will be holding a concert of prayer for our youth on November 14th. Christian women worldwide will fast and pray for 4 hrs (9 AM – 1 PM) for children and schools in the strong name [...]
Maybe you or someone you know is carrying a prodigal child or sibling or friend or parent in their heart. The Father’s heart is for the prodigals. You are invited to attend and bring a friend on Saturday, November 21, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for Bringing Home the Prodigals, [...]
After being turned down in 2005, Fairfield’s Black Rock Congregational Church has received permission for a major expansion from the Town of Fairfield’s Inland Wetlands Commission. At 85,000 square feet, the new church will be two and a half times as large as the present 34,000 square foot facility. Black [...]
Although, as Tom Blumer points out in the NewsBusters blog, the media may be oddly reluctant to remember that there was a U. S. Supreme Court case – and a person – named Kelo.
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Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens has ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must release thousands of pages of documents relating to allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ended nearly a decade of appeals by the diocese in its [...]
She will be remembered well. Lt. Gov. Fedele will definitely be a candidate, as he states in this Channel 8 video.
Whoever wins will need our prayers for the thankless task that awaits – dealing with Connecticut’s seemingly intractable budgetary and revenue problems.
[...]The income tax raised nearly $1.3 billion less than budgeted in the last fiscal year, which ended in a record $925.6 million deficit. The state government is covering that shortfall with borrowed money.
The current year is showing no signs of improvement.
Are we on our way to being the next California? [...]
The popular Revolve Tour returns to Hartford on December 4th and 5th. The 2009 event from The Revolve Tour, 4Real combines amazing music, relevant real-life stories, drama, excitement and fun for a one-of-a-kind inspirational weekend for teen girls. Bring your teens—they’ll love it! (Source: RevolveTour.com)
Republican candidates prevailed in most major races yesterday and, as Vincent at Connecticut Local Politics points out, Connecticut exemplified the trend better than anywhere.
Like New Jersey, we are a deeply blue state, so to see the GOP win in places like Stamford and Norwich and Stratford shows that something major [...]
The fight to see every unborn child protected in law and welcomed in life heats up in a major way this week with the expected vote on Obamacare, which will mandate public financing of abortion. How fortunate for us, then, to have a new Connecticut ally in the pro-life [...]
“Evangelical churches target New England” is the scary-sounding headline of an AP story that appeared in yesterday’s papers. Readers of FIC Blog are by now familiar with the decline in religious faith nationally as well as in New England. How did our region go from the cradle of Christianity in the [...]
Connecticut Christian Academy will be holding their annual Fall Festival on November 21st, complete with a craft fair, food, and activities for children. The fair will run from 10am – 3pm at 30 Brooks Road in Middletown. This is a free event and there [...]
The final Fifth Friday for 2009 is October 30. The Fifth Friday meetings are part of a New England-wide prayer movement in which the New England Alliance promotes quarterly prayer meetings every fifth Friday (which is four times a year). Churches and prayer [...]
Yesterday’s Waterbury Republican-American had a front page story (subscriber only) quoting the “Connecticut six” on why state Anglicans will likely remain Anglican and not become Catholic, despite Rome’s recent outreach to them. Given the coalition of like-minded Christians of various denominations that FIC has assembled over the years, it was this quote [...]
Even though we are supposedly one of the States with the lowest incidence of swine flu, we’re still affected as Guilford High will remain closed until at least Wednesday, with 42% of students having been absent on Thursday.
Dr. Thomas Forcella, Guilford Superintendent said, “It was becoming very difficult to run [...]
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Just a quick reminder to the readership that although I try to be responsible about what ads show on the site, occasionally something may show that I wouldn’t have personally chosen myself. When this happens we do try to deal with it but it can take [...]
The Courant’s Rick Green opines that incumbents like Mr. Dodd and Mrs. Rell are in trouble as unemployment here will hit 10% in 2010. Quoting Mrs. Rell’s top economic advisor:
Delinquency rates on single-family mortgages have risen four-fold since 2006, and consumers are spending less and saving more given overall economic [...]
A report from The Warren Group paints a bleak picture of 2009 Connecticut:
Personal bankruptcy filings in Connecticut skyrocketed 44 percent in the third quarter compared with a year earlier as job losses and salary cuts squeezed household budgets burdened by high credit [...]
