Tonight my husband and I traveled to UNC-Chapel Hill where our older daughter participated in the 12th annual UNC Dance Marathon – a fundraiser benefitting the children of UNC Hospital. At 7:30 last night around 1,600 college students gathered in Fetzer Gym and committed to standing on their feet for 24 hours straight! To pass the time, they danced, played basketball and other games, ate, etc. At 7:30 tonight they announced how much money had been raised from a year’s worth of fundraising, culminating with this Dance Marathon (each participant was supposed to raise at least $150). The total money raised to benefit the children at UNC Hospital was nearly $422,000! Now that’s what I call “doing a hard thing”! These college students are passionate about giving back to their community.

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Thanks for all your comments. I believe we are having a healthy, productive discussion on some very important “faith” issues.

Then, we can note that some seminaries actually rewrite church state history or omit quite a bit depending on their slant. (Some claiming that all Anabaptists were of the Munster stripe. Not true at all)

What is even more amazing is that one can pick up more truths from secular history about those periods in time (and the leaders) than from the official writings of the church or those who defend the church.

I would have never known what a creep John Knox was except for secular history. The reformed writings made him out to be a big hero when the man was involved in plotting murder and even writing sermons to show why it was ok to do so. Then in his 50′s, he marries a 17 year old. Even his followers had a problem with that.