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The case of the pregnant woman who was dragged to a hospital by authorities and forced to have an abortion has enraged the Chinese and sparked an online flurry of debate over whether it is time to ...

Conservatives in Washington State have claimed victory by collecting double the signatures needed to send the state’s same-sex marriage law to voters in this year’s general election....

The National Association of Evangelicals is urging pastors to seek a common moral ground by uniting under a consistent code of ethics....

c. 2012 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) On a bright April afternoon, hundreds of worshippers spilled into a Portland parking lot, exchanging hugs and handshakes after the weekly sermon....

I am confident that the new creation will include animals. I hope that it will include Merle, my deceased smooth-coat collie.

(ENInews)--The British government's 12-week consultation on gay marriage, which concluded on June 14, aroused strong opinions, with faith groups expressing views both "for" and "against." ...

Home is a recurring fascination of mine. I've lived in six different states and nine different houses or apartments (not including the itinerant college years). For me, home is a mixture of three things: 1) people, 2) land and 3) history.

E. J. Dionne—probably my favorite big-daily columnist—thinks liberals need to make a direct, full-throated defense of government: If progressives do not speak out plainly on behalf of government, they will be disadvantaged throughout the election-year debate. Gov. Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin recall election owed to many factors, including his overwhelming financial edge. But he was also helped by the continuing power of the conservative anti-government idea in our discourse. An energetic argument on one side will be defeated only by an energetic argument on the other. Hmm. I share Dionne's frustration with the success of anti-government conservatism in recent years, as well as the positive view he goes on to present of government's singular role in stimulating the economy and creating jobs (the main policy focus of his column). But more generally, I'm not convinced that the answer is to match anti-government attacks with equally fierce pro-government rebuttals.

New today from the Century: Animals in the new creation, it's not about the role of government, more.

Dark Shadows, Tim Burton’s film of the popular camp-gothic soap opera from the ’60s and early ’70s, is silly and over the top. But it has a marvelous, billowing look, and it’s quite entertaining.

In a runoff election for president, Christians are stuck between the rock of Mubarak's prime minister and the hard place of the Muslim Brotherhood.

There were only 30 short minutes left in my biblical interpretation class when James, my fellow seminarian, began his presentation. It was his turn to summarize an assigned reading for our class....

This morning the Century published an article on the difficult choice facing Egyptian Christians in this weekend's runoff election fo...

Lots of folks have had tons to say about Mark Regnerus's new study finding that children whose parents have had same-sex relationships fare worse than those reared in "stable, biologically-intact mom-and-pop families." Rob Tisinai sums it up concisely: The study compares the children of married biological parents with those from broken homes — and the study’s “lesbian mothers” that our opponents are vilifying generally weren’t married to each other; nor were the gay fathers. No, they were often in opposite-sex relationships that broke down.

New today from the Century: Hard choices in Egypt, William Burrows reviews Douglas Jacobsen, more.

The term world Christianity has been widely used since the publication of Philip Jenkins’s 2002 best seller The Next Christendom, but in popular usage it has tended to refer only to Christianity in the Global South. Though courses on world Christianity have proliferated, no one until Douglas Jacobsen has taken the care to delineate the contours of the entire global movement.

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c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) At age 19, Mitt Romney was a typical college student, schmoozing about politics, pulling pranks and sneaking away to see his girlfriend....