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Willow Creek cuts ties with ex-gay Exodus International
(RNS) Willow Creek Community Church, a trend-setting megachurch in suburban Chicago, has quietly ended its partnership with Exodus International, an "ex-gay" organization.
Willow Creek decided to sever ties with the Florida-based ministry in 2009, Christianity Today reported, but the...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
Not that we like to trade in gossip, but the word on the street is that Philly Cardinal Justin Rigali (widely blamed for dropping the ball on the abuse scandal) will retire tomorrow and will be replaced by a certain high-profile conservative from the Rocky Mountains. Poor Rocco can ha...
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Corporate giving is newest front in culture wars
(RNS) When you buy a pair of shoes, a spicy chicken sandwich, or a gym membership, does that mean you endorse everything about the company -- including the CEO's religious beliefs?
It's a question that has long plagued socially conscious consumers, but sites like Change.org now mobili...
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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup
(An earlier version contained dead links; our apologies)
Kudos to Ohio state Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, a family values lawmaker who managed to keep his DUI charges out of the news until just days ago. Back in April, police found the Republican with a young woman who was not his wife (...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
The more things change ...
Very religious Americans remain significantly more likely to lean toward the GOP than nonreligious Americans, who often identify as Democrats, according to a new Gallup poll.
This trend dates back to the Reagan era, Gallup notes, and has held steady in every...
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Friday’s Religion News Roundup
POTUS said gay couples deserve "the same legal rights" as everyone else, but stopped noticeably short of using the "M" word. New York lawmakers will be back at it today in a last-ditch attempt to figure out what they're going to do on same-sex marriage.
The trial of the Methodist lesb...
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Lesbian minister suspended for 20 days
(RNS) A United Methodist minister was suspended for 20 days by a church court in Wisconsin on Thursday (June 23) for performing a same-sex union in 2009, a breach of denominational rules.
A 13-member jury of local United Methodist clergy voted 9-4 to suspend the Rev. Amy DeLong, 44, o...
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Lesbian minister to face Methodist church trial
(RNS) United Methodists will begin a trial Tuesday (June 21) against a Wisconsin minister who's accused of breaking church rules by celebrating a same-sex marriage and being in a lesbian relationship.
The Rev. Amy DeLong, 44, of Osceola, Wis., could be defrocked if the 13-member jury...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
There's a Buddhist parable that compares the world and its manifold sensory pleasures to a burning house. We're so preoccupied playing with our toys, the lesson goes, we don't notice the flames blazing around us.
The NYT reports that 39 Buddhists are continuing their three-year-long m...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup
House Homeland Security Chief Peter King held his second hearing on radical Islam yesterday, this time focusing on prisons, and the Detroit News says it ended much like his first hearing: split largely along partisan lines. Or, as the GOP-friendly Washington Times headlined it: "Radic...
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