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Hugs From Libyans... 'Kinetic Military action' or 'war'?... Daydream Believers... Islamist Group Is Rising Force in a New Egypt... More U.S. colleges adding Muslim chaplains... Once Rare in Rural America, Divorce Is Changing the Face of Its Families. ...
Is marriage a requirement for pastoral ministry? That question is not new, having been a major focus of debates at crucial points in church history, but it is being asked once again. Erik Eckholm of The New York Times asked the question in a news st ...
Fight of the Valkyries... Detroit loses a staggering 25% of its population in a decade... Women Seeking Abortions in South Dakota to Get Anti-Abortion Advice... New wave of abortion laws limits women's right to choose... Self-Control at High and Low ...
Some theological disputes amount to very little and serve mostly as exercises in missing the point, if indeed there is a point. Other doctrinal exchanges are quite different and deal with matters of central and essential concern to the Christian fait ...
Leaders Struggle to Define Next Moves... A Very Liberal Intervention... Japan damage could reach $235 billion, World Bank estimates... Quake Is New Blow for Japanese Towns... We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal The ...
Rev. Steve Lawler has attracted the attention of the national media because this Episcopal priest chose a very odd way to observe Lent. He decided to "adopt the rituals of Islam" for the forty day season observed by many liturgical denominations, inc ...
The novelist Saul Bellow once remarked that being a prophet is nice work if you can get it. The only problem, he suggested, is that sooner or later a prophet has to speak of God, and at that point the prophet has to speak clearly. In other words, the ...
There can be few more frightening experiences than an earthquake, and last Friday's quake that has devastated Japan will rank among the strongest ever recorded. Ranking 9.0 on the scale of magnitude, the Sendai, Japan quake ranks fifth among earthqua ...
Huge Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Off Japan's Coast... 13 killed in clashes between Copts and Muslims in Egypt... Wisconsin Assembly passes bill to curb collective bargaining... Illinois Governor Signs Capital Punishment Ban... Cuomo Vows Personal Pus ...