By Wendy Fawthrop | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: June 19, 2018 at 1:07 am | UPDATED: June 19, 2018 at 1:07 am When Flor Edwards entered high school, she had never owned a toy, heard a fairy tale, seen a movie or TV show, or read a book other than the Bible. She grew up thinking the world would end when she was 12. She was never allowed to be alone. Only when Edwards picked up a copy of Seventeen magazine and took a quiz did she discover why she felt like an outsider. She answered yes to all five questions and finally realized the truth. “Oh, my God, I grew up in a cult.” Now the Cal State Fullerton alum has written “Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times.” Published by Turner Publishing Co., the book describes Edwards’ life as part of the Children of God, a cult started in Huntington Beach. Edwards recently returned to the CSUF campus to talk with journalism students of retired communications professor Jeff Brody. She told them her … [Read more...] about A kid in a cult: Cal State Fullerton alum writes book about growing up among the Children of God
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5 facts about dinosaurs in Colorado: From a beast in Garden of the Gods to a T. rex discovery
0 View Gallery View Comments While Dinosaur National Monument is perhaps the West's most striking hub of prehistoric remains, you don't have to go as far as state lines to appreciate Colorado's first dominant inhabitants. Near La Junta, walk with fossilized footsteps during the U.S. Forest Service's Picket Wire Canyonlands tour. Follow other tracks at Morrison's Dinosaur Ridge. The Garden Park Fossil Area near Cañon City is another site of discovery. If those places aren't enough to suggest Colorado's dinosaur cred, consider these five facts: 1. From 1886 to 1994, Colorado Springs in no way honored the mighty creature unearthed in its backyard. Only as the Garden of the Gods Nature and Visitor Center was set to open did organizers become aware of the Camptosaurus skull pulled from the park and identified by famed dinosaur expert Othniel Marsh. It turned out Marsh was incorrect. Researchers in 2006 found the fossil belonging to a different animal. The visitor center … [Read more...] about 5 facts about dinosaurs in Colorado: From a beast in Garden of the Gods to a T. rex discovery
River Rouge’s Ruke Orhorhoro picks Clemson over Michigan: ‘God’s plan’
Perry A. Farrell Detroit Free Press Published 10:16 p.m. UTC Jun 18, 2018 Nigerian born Ruke Orhorhoro started playing football last year at River Rouge High School. It took him one year to be recruited by the nation's college football powers. Orhorhoro, a 6-foot-4, 271-pound defensive lineman, committed to Clemson for the class of 2019 on Saturday, choosing the Tigers over Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. Clemson won the national championship in 2016 and advanced to the College Football Playoff each of the past three years. "The Michigan coaches were pretty upset, losing a kid from their own backyard,'' Orhorhoro said Monday morning. "Wherever I felt was home was where I was going. I'm a committed person. I believe in commitment. A commitment is like a marriage. Once I went to Clemson it was a dream school and when I got there I knew it was the place.'' U-M's defensive coaching staff had a chance to work with Orhorhoro two … [Read more...] about River Rouge’s Ruke Orhorhoro picks Clemson over Michigan: ‘God’s plan’
Opinion: What if God were one of us?
opinion Leonard Pitts Jr. Tribune Content Agency Published 11:15 p.m. UTC Jun 18, 2018 Singer Joan Osborne famously asked that question in 1995. In her Grammy-nominated hit, “One Of Us,” she envisions the author of all creation as “a slob like one of us, just a stranger on a bus trying to make his way home.” The idea of eternity contained in mortality was controversial. But it turns out that envisioning God as “one of us” is not at all uncommon. Indeed, our conceptions of God tend to be colored, perhaps inevitably, by our social affiliations. So says a new study in which University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers tested 511 American Christians to see how they envision God. The one thing respondents agreed on was that God does not resemble Michelangelo’s stern old white man with a flowing beard. Other than that, there was no consensus. African Americans saw a God with African-American features. Young people saw a younger … [Read more...] about Opinion: What if God were one of us?
A beast in Garden of the Gods, a T. rex discovery, a Rockies connection and other Colorado dinosaur facts
0 View Comments While Dinosaur National Monument is perhaps the West's most striking hub of prehistoric remains, you don't have to go as far as state lines to appreciate Colorado's first dominant inhabitants. Near La Junta, walk with fossilized footsteps during the U.S. Forest Service's Picket Wire Canyonlands tour. Follow other tracks at Morrison's Dinosaur Ridge. The Garden Park Fossil Area near Cañon City is another site of discovery.If those places aren't enough to suggest Colorado's dinosaur cred, consider these five facts: 1. From 1886 to 1994, Colorado Springs in no way honored the mighty creature unearthed in its backyard. Only as the Garden of the Gods Nature and Visitor Center was set to open did organizers become aware of the Camptosaurus skull pulled from the park and identified by famed dinosaur expert Othniel Marsh. It turned out Marsh was incorrect. Researchers in 2006 found the fossil belonging to a different animal. The visitor center today displays a cast … [Read more...] about A beast in Garden of the Gods, a T. rex discovery, a Rockies connection and other Colorado dinosaur facts