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Taliban unrepentant after attack on Pakistani teen, vow to kill her
c. 2012 USA Today KARACHI, Pakistan (RNS)...
How the vice-presidential debate emphasized 'single-issue' Catholicism
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS)...
Catholic bishops rebuke Biden over contraception mandate claims
c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)...
Billy Graham offers to 'help' Romney during meeting at N.C. home
Billy Graham offered to "do all I can to help" GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a Thursday (Oct. 11) meeting at the evangelist's North Carolina home....
ADL pulls out of interfaith talks over Israel
JERUSALEM (RNS) The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday (Oct. 11) it has withdrawn from an Oct. 22 U.S....
Are ministers and musicians allies or rivals?
Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, Rivals or a Team?...
Fall books: Reviews
Our fall books issue's reviews include Sam Wells on Jürgen Moltmann, William H. Willimon on Lamin Sanneh, Shirley Showalter on Rhoda Janzen and others.
Luther’s legacy
The Reformation led to a full embrace of the radical political implications of a humanity created in the image of God.
Liberty "a shield, not a sword"
A federal judge in Eastern Missouri has upheld the government mandate that insurance policies cover birth control. Judge Carol E. Jackson ruled that the mandate is not a violation of religious liberty. Religious freedom is “a shield, not a sword,” she said, and religious liberty claims cannot be used as a “means to force one’s religious practices upon others.” Her argument closely aligns with points that the Century made some months ago in an editorial and that I tried to make in a blog post.
The VP debate, blow by interrupting blow
Once again, no live-tweeting for me. Just note-taking on the laptop while watching, followed by some cleanup and link-adding this morning.
Friday digest
New today from the Century: John Buchanan on Luther's legacy, Trudy Bush reviews Richard Ford, more.
This is a little bit news I think
Today's top story: a debate that won't matter, between two guys vying for a job with no official duties....
Canada, by Richard Ford
To help us understand ourselves, every age needs its Huckleberry Finn, a naive boy on the lam, harmed or abandoned by his parents and left to confront evil and to figure out life for himself....
Closed for business: The fight against human trafficking
A man buys a lottery ticket at a small store in Cambodia. Ten years ago, he could have bought a human being there.
Judge: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association didn't discriminate against black employee
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS)
A North Carolina judge has ruled the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association did not discriminate against a former black employee....
Pope Benedict XVI convenes bishops to confront 'tsunami' of secularism
c. 2012 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)...
Washington gay marriage fight has money, 'daunting' odds
c. 2012 Religion News Service SEATTLE (RNS)...
NCC envisions itself as smaller, more agile
With yearly budget problems bedeviling the National Council of Churches, the ecumenical body recently finished taking a six-month look at what structural changes would enable the organization to co...
Non-Muslims send help after mosque is damaged
Muslim worshipers are reeling from an arson fire at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, but are grateful for an outpouring of support from the local and national interfaith community....
‘Judeo-Christian values’ provide Romney a link to GOP evangelicals
Mitt Romney angered evangelicals during his first White House run in 2008 by blurring the theological lines between their faith and his Mormonism....