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The newlyweds stood in worship surrounded by examples of the options for how their marriage will end. And 100 percent of marriages do end.

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) When inflamed mobs stormed the U.S. embassies in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday (Sept. 11), the media quickly looked to a likely spark. ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Jacques Berlinerblau wastes no ink in his new book trying to flatter his fellow nonbelievers. ...

Many of the recent discussions about “free speech” in connection with the internet video about Islam called “Innocense of Muslims,” the violent reactions to it, and the apologies for it, seem to me...

New today from the Century: Dangerous wedding vows, the freedom of apology, more.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

God was out and now God is in. And Jerusalem wasn’t the capital of Israel and now it is....

Benedict Groeschel, a well-known Catholic author and television personality, has given up his longtime spot on the conservative cable network EWTN following comments in which he appeared to defend ...

Perhaps reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will now ac­knowledge that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola....

A knotty issue in the Chicago teachers strike is teacher assessments.

David Streitfeld's Times writeup on Amazon's latest customer-service push is generally informative, but he buries the lede. Here's his explanation as to why the retailer is putting up new warehouses all over the country: This multibillion-dollar building frenzy comes as Amazon is about to lose perhaps its biggest competitive edge — that the vast majority of its customers do not pay sales tax. After negotiations with lawmakers, the company is beginning to collect taxes in California, Texas, Pennsylvania and other states. But Amazon hopes that the warehouses will allow it to provide better service, giving it the ability to up-end the retailing industry in an entirely new way. So they needed a new way to have an edge, and they happened to go with more warehouses?

New today from the Century: A cure for medicine, self-conversion projects, more.

Jeffrey Bishop is both a physician and a philosopher. Here he turns his clinical and analytical gaze on medicine, and his diagnosis is bleak.

Lynne Gerber's interaction with the discourses of evangelical weight loss and sexual reorientation is engaging, surprising and admirably charitable.

My files are full of stewardship sermons. So it came as a shock when people would say, “We know you don’t like to talk about money.”

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Americans are not very good with failure. We take it personally; we draw lines in the sand and cast blame. And the Chicago Public Schools are, for the most part, failing—failing to provide an environment that fosters teacher excellence, failing to provide a physical environment in which kids can learn, failing to graduate kids with the basic skills to succeed, failing to graduate kids at all.

The great newish online journal Religion & Politics alerted me to the fact that today is the anniversary of JFK's speech to the Houston ministers.

New today from the Century: Snow White's revival, speaking of money, more.