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Drawing on the recent Pew survey on Christians and torture, which showed that evangelicals are much less likely to condemn it than are mainline Protestants, scholar Diana Butler Bass says it's clear that Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodist, et alia, form t...
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Jesus now has a football jersey, and it is a tribute to Tim Tebow.
Some believers think that's getting it backwards: "Sports is one thing, and Jesus is another thing," said Traci Yown, a mom Christmas shopping for her son.
Others say it honors both Jesus and Tebow, the Denver Broncos QB who...
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News flash: Pope Benedict XVI is old. And like many other old people, his joints get sore and tired (which is why he uses a mobile platform, left, at St. Peter's). Doctors call it "arthrosis," and it's pretty common for an 84-year-old, but that didn't stop the British tabs from speculating t...
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For those of you who haven't heard, famous person Kim Kardashian just ended her marriage after only 72 days of betrothment. Naturally, the Washington Post On Faith blog asks what we're all thinking: what can Kim Kardashian's divorce can teach us about marriage?
Coffee giant Starbucks is repo...
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The NYT takes a stroll down Memory Lane into Michele Bachmann's formative years in constitutional law at Oral Roberts University. CNN takes a look at the Presidential Prayer Team which, curiously, costs $30,000 a month to operate.
Let's say you're Rick Perry and one of your big backers call...
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CNN reports on presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's recent insinuation that fellow presidential hopeful Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan was the work of the devil.
"When you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn it upside won, the devil is in the details," Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota s...
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