Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia—the world’s largest Christian university–announced recently that they have formed a committee to investigate the background of their seminary president Ergun Caner, the Washington Post reported.

Liberty University is investigating its seminary president, Ergun Caner over allegations that he's not the ex-Muslim he passed himself off to be.

The investigating committee will be headed by Liberty university administrator Ron Godwin.

Findings will be released by June 30.  Ergun Caner distinguished himself as a Muslim expert and is a popular speaker in the university lecture circuit.  Read more... (646 words, 2 images, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Renee Griffith was forbidden to speak as a 2008 high school valedictorian because she was going to mention God and Jesus.

Griffith was asked, along with other students at Butte High School in Montana, to speak about what had gotten her through high school.

Renee Griffith was forbidden to speak as a 2008 high school valedictorian because she was going to mention God and Jesus. This year, a judge ruled that the school had not volated her freedom of speech.

The students were required to turn in their speeches for approval prior to graduation.  Read more... (544 words, 2 images, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Montana Supreme Court has decided that nothing in the state’s laws would prevent a resident from seeking physician-assisted suicide.

In 2008, a lower court judge ruled that Montana’s constitutional right to privacy law guarantees the right for terminally ill patients to ask their doctors for death drugs.

A “Montana Death with Dignity Act” has been proposed.

Although the Montana Supreme Court declared that there is no such guarantee in the Constitution (case of Baxter v Montana, Dec. 2009); the Court also stated that public debate should continue, and the final move toward physician assisted suicide would be made through the democratic voting process.  Read more... (561 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Check out the interview here: http://theundergroundsite.com/index.php/2009/05/tracing-the-daystracing-the-days/

James Wait, the Underground staff writer interviews Lonnie Boss, the lead singer for Tracing Days

JW: What age did you start playing music?
LB: I was forced to take piano at 6. I quit until I was 17.
I also tried and quit the following: drums/violin/saxophone (although I played Sax through high school).
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I found the wide variety of instruments helpful in hearing various parts of composition later.  The lack of discipline was less helpful.  It wasn’t until I realized you could play by ear that I enjoyed playing any of those.  It was more like practicing math tables, until I learned that I could create.  Read more... (936 words, 2 images, estimated 3:45 mins reading time)