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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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Friday Godbytes: Christopher Hitchens; Pin the Beard on Matisyahu; Jesus Toasters
Christopher Hitchens, famed author, columnist, atheist and overall critic of religion, passed away yesterday after a prolonged battle with esophageal cancer.
Traditional media responded quickly: the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Fox News and NPR and others promptly posted obituaries....
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Author finds out just how much is expected of `biblical’ women
(RNS) Living like a biblical woman, as Christian author Rachel Held Evans discovered, can be a real pain in thy rump.
That's especially the case during a woman's "unclean" time of the month, when sitting on any surface renders it unclean, and why Evans carried around a stadium seat cu...
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Monday Godbytes
Singing prayers and adding pounds? Sarah Morice-Brubaker at Religion Dispatches looks at some studies that suggest an association between worship attendance and obesity.
An Amish son cut off his father's beard, the latest development in the ongoing Amish beard-cutting saga in Ohio.
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Catching up with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(RNS) Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, fresh off his 80th birthday celebrations, is the subject of a new biography, "Tutu: Authorized," written by journalist Allister Sparks and featuring interviews by Tutu's daughter, Mpho, with world leaders and celebrities who have worked...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
Hope our Protestant friends had a lovely Reformation Sunday.
Today, of course, is Halloween; or Samhain, if you're into that kinda thing.
Or, perhaps you're celebrating Jesus Ween.
Whether it's tricks or tracts your after, be sure not to don a cross-gender costume in Utah, says a...
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