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Humanists find ways to say ‘I do’ without God
WILMINGTON, N.C. (RNS) Amanda Holowaty didn't need God to get married. She just needed her husband Mike.
When the Wilmington atheist couple decided to join their lives a year ago, they knew they wanted a secular wedding celebrant, but their families weren't so sure.
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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.
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COMMENTARY: A hunger strike to close Guantanamo
CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ),...
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Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success
(RNS) When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit within two days challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and won.
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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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Troubled Missouri diocese to pay $600,000 abuse settlement
(RNS) The Catholic diocese in Missouri led by Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted last year of failing to report a priest who was taking pornographic pictures of children, will pay a $600,000 settlement to the family of one of the priest's victims.
The family filed the civil...
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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.
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Christian leaders seek to overcome polarization
WASHINGTON (RNS) Twenty-five top Christian leaders gathered in the U.S. city with perhaps the worst reputation for civil discourse Wednesday (May 15) and committed themselves to elevating the level of public conversation.
Meeting in a row house three blocks from the U.S. Capito...
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien leaves Scotland under Vatican pressure
(RNS) The Vatican on Wednesday (May 15) said that Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien will do penance in an undisclosed location outside of his country following his resignation in February amid reports that he had made sexual advances to a number of priests.
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Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
(RNS) News that scientists had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire warnings from religious leaders who say the research crosses a moral red line and could lead to designer babies.
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, point man for the U.S....
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