from the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators | Special to Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE â During its 2021 annual event, âAnything but Ordinary Time,â held online last week, the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators honored the following four educators.
ENRICH Educator of the Year
Jeannie Ford Andrews, church educator at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas
Jeannie Ford Andrews
Marian Wright Edelman has said, âEducation is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.â These words exemplify how Certified Christian Educator Jeannie Ford Andrews lives out her ministry in the church, community and world.
Shaila Dewan, The New York Times
Published: 03 Feb 2021 02:21 PM BdST
Updated: 03 Feb 2021 02:21 PM BdST Rioters surrounded and then breach the US Capitol after listening to a speech by former President Donald Trump at a rally on Jan 6, 2021. The New York Times
Since news of the first death during the Capitol riot Jan 6 broke which is to say, before the riot was even over lawmakers, television personalities and countless regular people on social media have been saying that the rioters have blood on their hands. );
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The law does, in fact, provide a way to hold people accountable for deaths they did not directly cause, like that of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while attempting to enter a restricted area.
Mitch McConnell Sparks Backlash Over Scorched-Earth Senate Warning
On 1/27/21 at 7:19 AM EST
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been criticized after suggesting ditching the filibuster could create a scorched-earth Senate, with adversaries taking issue with his past actions in the upper chamber.
McConnell has called for the legislative filibuster to be protected, welcoming some Democratic senators having voiced support for it suggesting this will allow discussions for a power-sharing agreement to move forward.
Commenting on floor remarks he made on Tuesday, McConnell said: I made clear that if Democrats ever attack the key Senate rules, it would drain the consent and comity out of the institution.
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Experts say a South Dakota criminal no longer has to pay his victims nearly $3 million in restitution after President Trump pardoned him and labeled his crimes “minor.”
That criminal, Paul Erickson, of Sioux Falls, is best known as the boyfriend of Russian operative Maria Butina. She was deported in 2019 after illegally working as a foreign agent in the United States.
Erickson was not prosecuted for the assistance he allegedly provided to Butina. Instead, in a separate case, authorities accused him of defrauding dozens of people in numerous business schemes. His pattern – which he repeated multiple times over many years – was to pitch an investment opportunity to friends and acquaintances, convince them to invest, and then pocket the money rather than putting it into the investment.
As shocking as the Paul Erickson pardon was, at South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Seth Tupper tonight has noted that Erickson doesn't just get an early release, he has $3 million of court-ordered restitution to victims wiped away: Experts say there’s likely no obligation for Erickson to even attempt to pay that money now. Neil Fulton,…