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St. Paul's cleric resigns, cathedral supports legal steps to remove protesters
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Penn Jillette's 10 Commandments for atheists
(RNS) In his new book, "God, No!" atheist magician Penn Jillette tells how he was challenged by conservative radio host Glenn Beck to come up with an atheist's version of The Ten Commandments....
Magicians say their craft makes them see faith as just hocus-pocus
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Clergy, politicians find out how far food stamps go
Religious leaders and members of Congress were getting a firsthand
taste of what it's like to eat on $4.50 a day as part of the Food Stamp...
A good-natured protest drummer
The other day I left the office around lunchtime and walked over to the Occupy Chicago gathering outside the Board of Trade....
Saints, sinners, smartphones
Bishops and church-growth gurus have been closely following Nadia Bolz-Weber's church plant in Denver, the House for All Sinners and Saints....
Taking the Long View, by David C. Steinmetz
Steinmetz is a senior scholar who can distill his learning in graceful, compact essays....
Clergy petition Village Voice to drop ads linked to sex trafficking
(RNS) Three dozen religious leaders have signed an ad calling on Village Voice Media to remove an adult section of its BackPage.com that they and others claim is a conduit for child sex trafficking...
Faith groups target `Super Committee' on poverty
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the deadline for a federal deficit-reduction plan looms, religious communities are holding prayer vigils, phoning politicians and organizing letter campaigns in a bid to protect...
`Amish Bernie Madoff' won't fight fraud charges
SUGARCREEK, Ohio (RNS) An investment broker dubbed the “Amish Bernie Madoff” has decided not to fight federal charges that he defrauded thousands of investors out of nearly $17 million....
Well before Romney, Mormon founder ran for president
(RNS) For all the political hubbub over Mormonism, youmight have thought Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are the first Mormons to run for president....
Williams confronts Mugabe with dossier of abuses
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has asked Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to intervene to stop attacks on Anglicans by allies of an excommunicated bishop who has seized church property and...
Greek Orthodox church to rebuild at Ground Zero
Ten years after St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers, church leaders have reached an agreement to rebuild at Ground Zero....
The CEB and the disciple who barely escaped
Whenever a new Bible translation comes out, questions arise about
changes to familiar passages. I was pleased to see the CEB use the word
"disciple" to refer to the mysterious young man who appears in Mark 14:51-52,
after the 12 disciples desert Jesus and run away.
Jay Smooth outs the ringers
Jay Smooth’s video blog is always good; last week’s was especially good.