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Crosses on the River. I live in a wonderful town - Evansville, Indiana.
Sure, we're a little provincial - a little behind the curve - a little afraid of anything that even smells new. Find me a town in the Midwest where that isn't true. Our fair city sits on the banks of the Ohio River. We have a wonderful levy and greenway that offers residents a place to walk, talk, and enjoy the beauty of the river. It is becoming a "go-to" place in Evansville, after years of despising the river. A few churches in town have an idea to place 30 crosses on the public walkway.
Here's the problem: the crosses will be placed on the public walkway. Now, I'm one of those weird Christians who believes in the separation of church and state. For one thing, Christians can't agree on what the cross means. The churches that are pursuing this project are not at fault. The fault - such as it is - must be placed with the city authority that permitted this display to proceed. Jeremy Affeldt, Giants Pitcher, On Baseball, Christianity And The City That Made Him A Better Man. Who: Jeremy Affeldt Current Gig: Relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants Years in the Bay Area: Four Neighborhood: East Bay When Jeremy Affeldt started playing baseball, he hated San Francisco.
As a conservative Christian, he bristled at the city's liberal ways -- especially its embrace of homosexuality. "I didn't leave my hotel room when we came to play the Giants or A's. As luck (or fate) would have it, he signed with none other than the San Francisco Giants in 2009. But his bigger transformation may have happened off the field. He became an ambassador for anti-human trafficking organization Not For Sale, and has inspired other athletes (including Giants pitcher Matt Cain) to do the same. "I'll probably get a lot of flak from the church for it, but I believe I'm right," he said. Now he's detailed his life experiences in a new memoir To Stir A Movement: Life, Justice, and Major League Baseball .
Jeremy, you are a two-time World Series-winning pitcher. Loading Slideshow. Chris Stedman: The Prophet. Chris Stedman is a gay atheist on a mission to find a common cause between the devout and the faithless.
His compatriots aren’t buying it. Photography by Alex Dakoulas When the writer Chris Stedman secured a book deal in 2010, his mother was so proud that she wanted to gush to the women at the gym she attends in her rural Minnesota town. There was just one problem: the subject matter. “She has no concerns about telling them that my book is about my being gay, or that it talks about my work with Muslims,” says Stedman. In a country that has enshrined in its constitution the concept of God-given or divine rights, that’s perhaps no surprise. That divide between atheists and the religious is where Stedman operates. “The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the history of the world,” Stedman says. Perhaps unsurprisingly, those angry atheists have not taken kindly to Stedman, who has been savaged online.
And, chillingly: “I say we kill Stedman.”