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Humanists find ways to say ‘I do’ without God
WILMINGTON, N.C. (RNS) Amanda Holowaty didn't need God to get married. She just needed her husband Mike.
When the Wilmington atheist couple decided to join their lives a year ago, they knew they wanted a secular wedding celebrant, but their families weren't so sure.
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Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over appeal among evangelicals
(RNS) Growing up Roman Catholic in Newfoundland, Matt Maher never imagined that his childhood interest in music would lead to a career as a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Christian rocker -- let alone a crossover artist featured on Christian radio and in evangelical worship…
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COMMENTARY: A hunger strike to close Guantanamo
CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of C…
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Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success
(RNS) When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit within two days challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and won.…
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Catholics split on proposed gay Boy Scouts change
(RNS) Paul Sefranek is a lifelong Roman Catholic and a long-serving volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America -- two parts of his identity that have always been in harmony.
Until now.
As the BSA decides this month whether to allow openly gay boys into its program, Sef…
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