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COMMENTARY: A heart is a terrible thing to waste
(UNDATED) The hole in Vasco Sylvester's heart isn't there anymore.
In a three-hour operation on June 10, surgeons at Hope Children's Hospital outside Chicago, using a piece of white Gore-Tex, patched the quarter-size hole that had been there since Vasco was born.
The doctors also remo...
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Hockey as religion? Many Canadians think so.
TORONTO (RNS) May the puck be with you. And also with you.
Hockey as religion? Many Canadians wouldn't argue that their hard-core fandom borders on religious fervor. Even when they don't bring home the holy grail of the Stanley Cup, storied teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montr...
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Promise Keepers invites women to 2009 gathering
(RNS) Promise Keepers, the evangelical ministry known for its focus on making men better fathers and husbands, is inviting women for the first time to its main 2009 conference, the ministry announced.
"This year we are calling men to bring the women in their lives," founder and chairm...
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CREW files Brownback complaint
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan good-government group, filed a Senate ethics complaint against Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) over the use of faux Senate letterhead in a fundraising letter on behalf a conservative Catholic group.
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Return to sender?
National Catholic Reporter has received a fundraising letter lambasting liberal Catholics and bearing Kansas Senator Sam Brownback's signature. The letter's from Catholic Advocate, a conservative Washington-based group.
The undated Brownback letter names many prominent Catholic Democr...
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Big game mixes faith and football
This year many players on both teams preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl aren't hesitating to invoke the name of God as they prepare to play a violent game where there will be no mercy shown on either side.
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Tebow 3:16
You may have seen Florida quarterback Tim Tebow with "John" and "3:16" painted in white on the black eye paint during Thursday's night BCS Championship show-down with Oklahoma. (Wow-I *almost* sound like I know what I'm talking about when it comes to football just then. Don't worry; i...
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Beer and baseball (via the AP)
Like Homer Simpson, I have two abiding loves in my life (besides, of course, my family). They are beer and baseball.
The Associated Press was nice enough to oblige me with two fun pieces last week.
In the first, Eric Gorksi finds God at the Great American Beer Festival.
In the second,...
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Are all worthy?
A growing number of mainline Protestant churches -especially liberal dioceses in the Episcopal Church- are offering Communion to anyone who wants it, reports the Boston Globe's Michael Paulson.
Excerpt: "Communion, the central ritual of most Christian worship services and long a membe...
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Jewish author says year with Jesus restored his faith
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Jesus, many Christians might tell you, saved their lives.
Benyamin Cohen, founder and editor of American Jewish Life and Jewsweek, credits the carpenter with helping to save his faith.
At first glance, you might think Cohen's story would be mark...
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