Our family had no trouble with the avoiding killing and stealing and worshiping idols and getting divorces. Those things were not happening in German evangelical settings. Keeping the Sabbath seems simple enough, but what consists of keeping it holy and avoiding all work?

On December 15, SCOTUS issued a ruling that says, “A police officer’s reasonable mistake of law gives rise to reasonable suspicion that justifies a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment.”

Prior to dawn on December 8, on the occasion of the climate conference in Lima, Greenpeace activists from several countries placed the words, “Time for Change! The Future is Renewable/ Greenpeace” at the historic landmark of Nazca in Peru. The message, since it was visible from the sky, was intended to gain the attention of conference attendees.

Today when we think of living structures, we tend to think of houses that people live in. To farmers, some of the other buildings, namely the barn, were more important because they housed the animals.

Last week, the House passed the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and attached a rider on page 1105 that would give 2400 acres of National Forest that is cherished ancestral Native American land in southeast Arizona to a subsidiary of a large international mining conglomerate.

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) recited a one-minute poem on the House floor a few days ago. His heartfelt call for justice is simple and truthful. The refrain, “I can’t breathe” is repeated eleven times, the same number of times Eric Garner said the same words, his final words. The poem speaks for

Letty Owings, age 89, recalls events of the day, on December 7, 1941, as the “day that changed everything.”

Barring a last-minute stay, Texas will execute Scott Panetti today at 6 PM. Scott Panetti is a severely mentally ill,  “floridly psychotic” individual whose trial was a farce that took place before a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole was an option. A Texas trial court

In the United States, a person cannot be prosecuted for a felony unless there is probable cause to believe that a person has committed a felony. Pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, all federal felony prosecutions must be by grand jury indictment, unless the defendant waives his right to be prosecuted

Open enrollment for obtaining affordable health insurance to take effect in 2015 begins today. Even though I have an undergraduate degree in Biology and an associates degree in a medical field, as well as a reasonable grasp of reading and writing, my attempts to navigate previous versions of ACA enrollment