by | Aug 10, 2018 | Our World
Willow Creek church’s board also apologized to the women who accused founder Bill Hybels of harassment The leadership of a massive Chicago-area evangelical church is stepping down and has apologized to women who accused the megachurch’s founder of sexual harassment.... by | Aug 10, 2018 | Our World
According to yesterday’s News-Gazette, a Champaign, Illinois state trial court has dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds a lawsuit by a former church deacon of the Jericho Missionary Baptist Church. As described in the news report:Formerly the chairman... by | Aug 8, 2018 | Our World
Golf is trying to appeal to a younger market with an online experiment beginning at Bellerive in Missouri on ThursdayHow golf can appeal to a broader and younger market has been the subject of much discussion. This week, the biggest departure yet from traditional... by | Aug 8, 2018 | Our World
In Sterlinski v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, (ND IL, July 23, 2018), An Illinois federal district court held that the ministerial exception doctrine applies to an organist at a Catholic parish. Plaintiff claims he was demoted from Director of Music to Organist... by | Aug 6, 2018 | Our World
Street performers and contactless payments – two of my least favourite things – are now in unholy alliance at Edinburgh fringeThe fact that buskers and street performers at this year’s Edinburgh fringe are accepting contactless payments will have raised a few smiles.... by | Aug 6, 2018 | Our World
In Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, (9th Cir., July 30, 2018), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a lengthy opinion applied the Act of State Doctrine to reject the attempt by plaintiff to recover two oil paintings of Biblical characters taken by...
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