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Olympian Gabby Douglas talks faith, forgiveness and matzo ball soup
(RNS) Gabrielle Douglas, who walked away with the gold at the London Olympics, talks about her prayer life, her love of matzo ball soup and overcoming homesickness to make it to the Olympics. By Adelle M. Banks.
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Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows
(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”
Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to...
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Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe
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(RNS) Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the deat...
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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.
A...
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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, Sefranek is...
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Congregations tend the soil and the soul with vegetable gardens
(RNS) The Rev. Morris G. Henderson wasn't sure what do with a vacant city block of land behind his 31st Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. The church had purchased the plots, but didn't have the funding to build a planned family life center.
Then, he had a vision.
"Why...
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Vatican revives its ancient patronage of the arts
VATICAN CITY (RNS) For centuries, popes sponsored the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Raffaello or Bernini, who went on to create some of their masterpieces within the very walls of the Vatican.
Yet over time, the marriage between art and faith grew stale -- the Vatican's...
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Church-based scouting alternatives attract interest
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(RNS) They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping.
But they're not the Boy Scouts.
Across the country, there are decades-old religious alternatives with names like Pathfinders (S...
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SIDEBAR: Evangelical alternatives to the Boy Scouts
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Adventure Corps
Founded by the Salvation Army in the 1980s, Adventure Corps includes about 1,300 units of boys from grades 1-8. The program focuses on teamwork, leadership and Christian fellowship. They do not h...
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Left behind: Families struggle to navigate life after suicide
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DRAPER, Utah (RNS) As young brothers, Kris and Kourt McGuire often spent hours chasing the shimmering d...
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Jesuits face a shrinking pool of university presidents
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ST. LOUIS (RNS) For 25 years, St. Louis University has been led by the Rev. Lawrence Biondi. And...
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