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“We are open to radically inclusive love, and we’ll take our changes with God on that.”
November 3, 2006: V...
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"Not only are we pointing to these different saints and celebrating all of the good things during their lives, but we're hopefully encouraging one another to becom...
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"Not only are we pointing to these different saints and celebrating all of the good things during their lives, but we're hopefully encouraging one another to become the saints of this age," says Brother James Cuddy, who explains the celebration of All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween.
October 26, 2012: J...
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When we interviewed Joni Eareckson Tada in 2010, the popular evangelical author and speaker had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, two years later, we sp...
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When we interviewed Joni Eareckson Tada in 2010, the popular evangelical author and speaker had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, two years later, we speak with Tada, a quadriplegic, about her battle with the disease and how it has affected her marriage and her faith.
October 26, 2012: J...
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"I think I'm doing everything I can. I'm being as a good a steward of my body as I possibly can to ensure that I'll come out the other end cancer free. That would ...
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"I think I'm doing everything I can. I'm being as a good a steward of my body as I possibly can to ensure that I'll come out the other end cancer free. That would be a blessing."
October 26, 2012: C...
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At Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, Muslim children sit in tents, pray, throw stones, and make seven circuits around a replica of the Ka'ba ...
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At Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, Muslim children sit in tents, pray, throw stones, and make seven circuits around a replica of the Ka'ba as part of a mock Hajj, the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca.
October 19, 2012: F...
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He arrived in the Philippines in 1972, inspired by the Second Vatican Council to “get out of the rectory and into the streets” to fight human trafficking.
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He arrived in the Philippines in 1972, inspired by the Second Vatican Council to “get out of the rectory and into the streets” to fight human trafficking.
October 12, 2012: M...
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“Many campaigns have run away from religion in the past, trying to say there’s a separation of religion and state, whereas in Minnesota we have embraced the idea t...
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“Many campaigns have run away from religion in the past, trying to say there’s a separation of religion and state, whereas in Minnesota we have embraced the idea that a person of faith can and should opposed the amendment,” says University of Minnesota Law School professor Dale Carpenter.
October 5, 2012: Ju...
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“We have a movement afoot to politicize our courts,” says political science professor Rachel Caufield, “and that undermines the quality of justice in America.”
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“We have a movement afoot to politicize our courts,” says political science professor Rachel Caufield, “and that undermines the quality of justice in America.”
October 5, 2012: Fo...
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More and more churches and faith-based groups are creating small farms to feed the urban poor, especially children, in places like the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
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More and more churches and faith-based groups are creating small farms to feed the urban poor, especially children, in places like the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
October 14, 2011: S...
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“It’s an expression of the love for our Torah, our teachings. It’s also a great way to begin the New Year,” says Rabbi David Shneyer, spiritual leader of Kehila Ch...
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“It’s an expression of the love for our Torah, our teachings. It’s also a great way to begin the New Year,” says Rabbi David Shneyer, spiritual leader of Kehila Chadasha and the Am Kolel Jewish Renewal Center of Greater Washington.
September 28, 2012:...
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“We’re trying to convince fellow Muslims of the fact that the idea of free speech is a foundational part of the Quran itself,” says the director of the Muslim Publ...
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“We’re trying to convince fellow Muslims of the fact that the idea of free speech is a foundational part of the Quran itself,” says the director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Washington office.
September 28, 2012:...
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The militarized island of Mindanao is the only area of the Philippines with a significant Muslim presence. It is also the place where international civilians are w...
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The militarized island of Mindanao is the only area of the Philippines with a significant Muslim presence. It is also the place where international civilians are working with local civic groups to monitor a ceasefire and advance the peace process.
September 28, 2012:...
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This important Jewish festival celebrates “an indulging of the senses.”
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This important Jewish festival celebrates “an indulging of the senses.”
September 21, 2012:...
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Managing editor Kim Lawton discusses what the latest polls say about which candidates religious voters are supporting in the close race between President Barack Ob...
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Managing editor Kim Lawton discusses what the latest polls say about which candidates religious voters are supporting in the close race between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.
September 21, 2012:...
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Some pastors say their job is not to endorse political candidates. It is to make sure that their church members vote and "that they understand what's at stake," sa...
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Some pastors say their job is not to endorse political candidates. It is to make sure that their church members vote and "that they understand what's at stake," says Pastor Jeffery Daniel.
September 21, 2012:...
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Many Vietnamese priests came to the US to escape war and persecution and to help struggling Catholic parishes in small rural communities that don't have enough pri...
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Many Vietnamese priests came to the US to escape war and persecution and to help struggling Catholic parishes in small rural communities that don't have enough priests.
All the great religious creeds, said writer Reynolds Price, "have known forever that if we're ever to arrive at the state of anything called wisdom, pain seems to be the way we get there."