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the new black theologians, the sources of racism (and the
resources for its repudiation) lie in Christianity's failure
to live into its Jewishness. The problem is not simply that
Jewish Christians did not easily accept gentiles into the
church. Rather, the problem is that after the gentiles were
accepted, the question became: What now becomes of the Jews?
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What kind of Christianity is
this? >>
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The face of Catholicism is changing
in the most populous country of Latin America. The Charismatics
are flourishing by the millions. And they have a star in a
priest who fills stadiums by preaching the love of God >>
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Defying a history of anti-Catholicism,
evangelical leaders recently endorsed GOP presidential candidate
Rick Santorum (a Catholic), and South Carolina Evangelicals
voted Catholic Newt Gingrich to victory in their primary.
Will Mormon Mitt Romney be next to win them over? >>
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Christian Science Monitor |
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Today we approach same-sex attraction
with views grounded in social and biological scientific perspectives
that are only partially supported by empirical findings >>
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Things |
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The courts are endangering religious
freedom because the judiciary are giving it a lower priority
than equality, a leading philosopher has claimed >>
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Telegraph |
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9 religion themed films at Sundance Film Festival 2012 >>
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Huffington Post |
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Oscar nominee Brad Pitt on the
unmentionables: marriage, politics and religion >>
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Hollywood Reporter |
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Queen's University researchers
found religion gives people greater self-control, including
patience, and the ability to better handle discomfort >>
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Sun |
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Why church planting may no longer
be the best vehicle for evangelism >>
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of UR |
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Christians and churches in Sudan
are facing increased restrictions and hostility, since the
secession of the southern part of the country six months ago,
according to some church leaders >>
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At the heart of the American
experience is a profound contradiction: How are we so incredibly
religious and yet so seemingly decadent? >>
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Jerusalem Post |
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The
most boring question one can ask of any religion is
whether or not it is true. Manifestly, none are. Yet this
should not stop us cherry-picking the bits we like and repackaging
them as self-help aphorisms for a liberal middle-class >>
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Guardian |
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Respecting religious exemptions
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Washington Post |
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Franciscans, Muslims working
for peace in Nigeria >>
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Catholic News |
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Which one has the religion problem,
Gingrich or Romney? >>
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Dispatches |
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Discipling the dragon: Christian
publishing finds success in China >>
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Today |
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Religion
may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world
but we still crave its emotional satisfactions >>
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Financial Times |
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Most church-affiliated organizations
will be required to offer their workers coverage of birth
control as part of their health plans, the Obama administration
announced Friday, but they can get more time than other employers
to comply >>
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Washington Post |
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Religious Israeli soldiers have
found a new form of disobedience >>
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The Pope says the Church has
her part to play in the public square and that while the separation
of Church and State is legitimate “it cannot be taken
to mean that the Church must be silent on certain issues,
nor that the State may choose not to engage, or be engaged
by, the voices of committed believers in determining the values
which will shape the future of the nation” >>
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Radio |
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In Libya, a fundamentalist war
against moderate Islam takes shape >>
more Time |
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More than half (53%) of white
evangelical Protestants -- a key element of the GOP base --
say that the Mormon religion is not a Christian faith >>
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Research Center |
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‘Why I Hate Religion, But
Love Jesus’ goes viral >>
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Washington Post |
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Ministerial and religious exemptions
in the USA >>
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Time for the Catholic Church
to open its secret archives >>
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Huffington Post |
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Max Weber explained that Europe’s
original modern capitalists, the Calvinists, pursued profits
in the search for proof of salvation. They saved ascetically
to accumulate wealth to prove God’s grace, not to
sate their consumer appetites >>
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Finacial Times |
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The tyranny of modern freedom
versus the freedom of Jesus >>
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Ontological proof and the critique
of religious experience >>
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for the Study of Religions & Ideologies |
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Syria's religious minorities
wary of upraising >>
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Study says God-connections at
church are "rare". Are churches failing, or are
our expectations too high? >>
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of UR |
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Mating games. Changing rules
for sex and marriage >>
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Christian Century |
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With a Mormon candidate among
the front-runners for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination,
a musical about Mormons playing on Broadway and The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (LDS) running television
ads about ordinary Mormons, America is in the midst of what
some media accounts have dubbed a "Mormon moment"
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Research Center |
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Growing Catholic divide over
Mexico drug war >>
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Christian Science Monitor |
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For Christians in Ghana, the
passing of a loved one is often celebrated with joyful funerals
and so-called "fantasy coffins" representing the
lifetime achievements of the deceased >>
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& Ethics, PBS |
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The poetry of sex. Medieval Christians
were obsessed with the Song of Songs. No book of the Bible
received such intensely devoted attention in commentary and
preaching >>
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Things |
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Tunisians fear Sharia-law state
may be looming >>
more RT |
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Redefining Islam for the 21st
century. Progressive activists in the 'critical Muslim' movement
are growing in strength and number >>
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Guardian |
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Bishops urge world leaders to
address needs of people in Holy Land >>
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Catholic News |
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Religious groups and churches
may hire and fire their leaders without being subject to laws
against discrimination in employment, the US Supreme Court
said this week in a unanimous landmark ruling >>
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Journal |
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What is Nigeria's Boko Haram?
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Christian Science Monitor |
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The
Lost Gospels. Documentary presented by Anglican priest
Pete Owen Jones which explores the huge number of ancient
Christian texts that didn’t make it into the New Testament
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Documentary Films |
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Top
5 books on Christians in politics >>
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Today Library |
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Faith has been central to American
politics for years, but rarely more than it has in 2012 as
a Republican primary field, featuring evangelical, Catholic
and Mormon candidates, vies for voters who put a premium on
religious values >>
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Europe's
Angry Muslims. What lessons can the US learn from the
anger simmering in some of Europe's Muslim communities? >>
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Christian Science Monitor |
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With the Pentagon ramping up
its efforts to root out sexual assault in the military, Army
chaplains are poised to play an important role >>
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Christian Science Monitor |
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Anglicans have good reason to
be grateful to Elizabeth II. But will the church-state link
be quite so strong in the next reign? >>
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Statesman |
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Benedict XVI has remained silent
about China. But the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
is shouting at the top of its lungs. And it has named as "man
of the year" two bishops made to disappear in the prisons,
out of hatred for the faith >>
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What people experience in churches
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Barna Group |
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GOP presidential candidate Santorum's Iran policy appears
to be framed, in no small part, by his extremist views on
Islam and a belief that the Islamic Republic's leadership
is inherently irrational and suicidal >>
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Can I vote for a Mormon? >>
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Washington Post |
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With
“What Your Preacher Didn’t Tell You” Winsor
presents readers with evidence that modern Christian dogma
directly, and strongly, contradicts what Jesus actually believed
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Pentecostal renewal transforms
Rwanda after genocide. Survivors flock to charismatic churches
as a haven for healing >>
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Today |
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Nigeria's descent into holy war
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Telegraph |
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Resources
for clergy peer groups >>
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Christian Century |
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Religion in 2011: revolutionary
and conservative >>
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Heaven on earth? Evangelicals
and biblical interpretation >>
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& Culture |
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An al-Qaeda linked terrorist
group has escalated its threats to foment civil war in Nigeria
by handing out a three day deadline to leave to Christians
before it launches an offensive against government troops
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Telegraph |
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Sports
and religion were where sacrifices were made to gods and the
competitors were proudly smeared in the blood of these sacrifices.
The church had difficulty adjudicating sports in the form
of recreation and in the form of “arena” sports.
Some sports were even played on church grounds >>
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Journal of Religion & Popular Culture |
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Religion and sex in Israel: Street
clashes over defining a Jewish state >>
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Don't give up on young people,
urge church leaders >>
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Guardian |
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Under arrest in Greece, the abbot
of the most important monastery of the holy mountain. The
patriarch of Moscow calls for his release. The patriarch of
Constantinople is silent. The rivalry between the two rekindled
by the voyage in Russia of a relic of the Virgin Mary >>
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As Islamists emerge from elections as Egypt’s leading
political force – to the alarm of democracy campaigners
and regional autocrats alike – western governments
will have to adapt to a power shift they have long sought
to prevent >>
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Financial Times |
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The Maldives has ordered all
hotels and resorts to close their spas after protests by an
Islamist party which claimed they were a front for prostitution
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The Vatican is set to launch
a structure Monday that will allow Anglican parishes in the
United States — and their married priests — to
join the Catholic Church in a small but symbolically potent
effort to reunite Protestants and Catholics, who split almost
500 years ago >>
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Washington Post |
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Composer Howard Goodall uncovers
the surprising and often secret history of the Christmas carol
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Religion and ethics stories anticipated
for 2012 >>
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& Ethics, PBS |
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Losing my religion: If i'm so
done with faith, why do I still feel its loss? >>
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Huffington Post |
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11 ways religion changed in 2011 >>
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Washington Post |
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The top 10 events, people, and
debates of the past year that have shaped, or will significantly
shape, evangelical life, thought, or mission >>
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Today Library |
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Compared with those who are not
involved with such organizations, religiously active Americans
are more trusting of others, are more optimistic about their
impact on their community, think more highly of their community,
are more involved in more organizations of all kinds, and
devote more time to the groups to which they are active >>
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Research Center |
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The many faces of the Good Samaritan
— most wrong >>
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Archeology Review |
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Has religion made the world less
safe? Savage practices such as human sacrifice, chattel slavery,
blood sports, debtors’ prisons, frivolous executions,
religious persecution, and punitive torture and mutilation
have been eliminated from most of the world. Less obviously,
homicide rates have plummeted over the centuries, and during
the past sixty-five years that the rate of death from war
has fallen to historically unprecedented lows >>
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Washington Post |
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Top 2011 religion stories that
weren’t: Theological weirdness; gay church identity
crisis; upside-down religious liberty... and more >>
more Religion
Dispatches |
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The Muslims
are coming. Muslim American comics’ tour and documentary
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Washington Post |
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A new poll by LifeWay Research shows that about 10 percent
of U.S. Protestant pastors canceled Sunday services this Christmas.
Many others had abbreviated or altered services. Some said
they would use the smaller crowds to give their second-string
clergy a chance to practice >>
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Washington Post |
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Ten church models for a new generation.
What kinds of communities are working well? >>
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Christian Century |
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Unexpected sanctuary. Even mundane places can be filled
with God's beauty and love >>
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Journal |
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While
Earthen Vessels presents itself as an evangelical
theology of the body, Anderson's book is less that and more
a topical exposition of a Christian view of the body regarding
very specific questions such as tattooing, sexuality, and
burial versus cremation >>
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& culture |
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When is self-interest moral?
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Muslim organizations worldwide
have condemned bomb attacks on three Nigerian churches during
a Christmas Mass, saying the attackers do not represent true
Islam >>
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Isalamic News Agency |
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Amazon is guessing your religion
from your gift wrap >>
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U.S. to help Nigeria hunt down terrorists who bombed churches
on Christmas Day >>
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News |
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For many, 'Losing My Religion'
isn't just a song: It's life >>
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Today |
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Church leaders in Nigeria are
sharply divided over how to react to a surge in violent attacks
against Christians and churches in the country's Muslim-majority
north >>
more Christianity
Today |
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As 2011 draws to a close we take
our annual look back at what we think were the most interesting
and important religion and ethics stories of the year >>
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& Ethics, PBS |
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Calling themselves 'Messenger
Angels,' youth members of an evangelical church are protesting
Mexico's drug violence by taking to the streets carrying signs
and wearing angel costumes >>
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Christian Science Monitor |
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Our commercial Christmas supports
a great number people who in good part owe their livelihoods
to Christmas buying, not least the buying done by Christians
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Things |
