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Published: 12/21/09

Opinion: Zoning Grinches Block Homeless Program

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: Zoning Grinches Block Homeless Program

(Dec. 21) – Pastor Dottie Escobedo-Frank thought she was leading her CrossRoads United Methodist flock down the righteous path by providing food and prayer for the homeless every Saturday morning on the lawn of her downtown Phoenix church. After all, as the pastor points out, providing for those with less is a basic Christian-taught duty rooted in the story of Jesus' own wanderings. "It's our church belief to provide for the homeless," she said. "It's really about their not being able to find any place for the baby Jesus." But in July, six months after the church invited a nonprofit ...

Published: 11/8/09

Zoning the Flock: Are Megachurches the New Walmart?

By  Bridget Macdonald - Politics Daily
Zoning the Flock: Are Megachurches the New Walmart?

Environmental activists and community groups have rallied against a proposed construction project in Maryland's rural Piedmont region, but their opponent is not a typical developer. Silver Spring-based Global Mission Church plans to build a 138,000-square-foot facility in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to provide a new home for its growing congregation. "That's the size of a Target or a Nordstrom's," said Dolores Milmoe of the Audubon Naturalist Society, which has joined the grassroots resistance. The church would occupy a clearing on a hilltop overlooking the Sugarloaf Mountain ...

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