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After minor turbulence, Alaska Airlines suspends prayer cards
Relatively few customers of Seattle-based Alaska Airlines -- the nation's seventh largest carrier in terms of passenger traffic -- have received the cards since 2006, when the airline stopped serving meals in coach.
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As missionary movement turns 200, questions for the future
"It's part of the American character to go out and help people," said Clifford Putney, assistant professor of American religious history at Bentley University. "We go (out) saying we have all these great ideas and (people abroad) would be better off following them."
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Are Mormons Christian? It’s complicated
(RNS) Ask Mormons if they are Christian, and their answer often starts with a sigh.
Look at our name, they'll say, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read The Book of Mormon's subtitle, "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." Examine our Articles of Faith, "We believ...
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At 27, new imam represents a homegrown American Islam
ST. LOUIS (RNS) At just 27 years old, Asif Umar is the new imam of Daar-ul-Islam mosque, the largest mosque in the metro area. The son of Indian immigrants is devoted to the city's sports teams, marking the end of Ramadan with a St. Louis Blues hockey game.
He also represent...
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Wednesday’s Religion Roundup: Web woes, transplant ethics, prayer debates
Big stretches of the Internet are going dark today in protest over efforts to stop people from stealing stuff that isn't theirs. Got it?
Somehow the Religion Roundup is still here - even if I have to make it up. Which is pretty much what the Internet is about anyway, no?
One of the ma...
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Judge rules against prayer banner in R.I. school
(RNS) A federal judge ruled Wednesday (Jan. 11) in favor of a teenage atheist who sought the removal of a prayer banner from her Rhode Island high school.
Attorneys for Jessica Ahlquist, 16, argued that a banner on display in Providence's Cranston High School West's auditorium titled...
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10 minutes with ... Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
(RNS) Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, spiritual counselor to Michael Jackson and author of the best-selling "Kosher Sex," is about to publish "Kosher Jesus." The Orthodox Boteach deems it "the true story of Jesus of Nazareth ... a man who lived, taught and died as a Jew."
It is also,...
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Beloved hymns carried King through troubled times
(RNS) At 87, the Rev. C.T. Vivian can still recall the moment, decades after the height of the civil rights movement.
As he stood to conclude a meeting in his Atlanta home, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist colleagues in song, his eyes closed, rocking back and forth...
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N.C. man has a `gentle madness’ for church fans collection
WILMINGTON (RNS) William McNeill remembers two things about sitting in the pew at Singletary United Methodist Church in Dublin, N.C. as a boy.
He can still hear the choir singing the old gospel hymn "Bringing in the Sheaves," which the young McNeill thought was actually "Bringing in t...
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German Jews ride renaissance against tide of assimilation
LUEBECK, Germany (RNS) Yelizaveta Paliy arrived in this northern port city from Ukraine in 1995 on the second day of Hanukkah. After years of celebrating the Jewish festival of lights behind drawn curtains in her homeland, Paliy went to Luebeck's historic synagogue and lit the candles...
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