Lauren Markoe
Sparks fly as House GOP blasts contraception mandate
c. 2012 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) Exhibit A in the fight over President Obama's mandate for
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U.S. jumps to top of charity index
c. 2011 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans: the most generous people in the world. In this season of giving, that's no idle gloat.
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Young hip Jews leading a Hanukkah music makeover
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) Put on your boogie shoes -- the new Hanukkah songs are here!
Gingrich’s rhetoric stirs GOP’s Jewish activists
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich ignited an audience of
Republican Jewish activists in Washington by promising to move the U.S.
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Author finds out just how much is expected of 'biblical' women
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) Living like a biblical woman, as Christian author Rachel Held Evans discovered, can be a real pain in thy rump.
Tea Party, Occupy movements fail to capture Americans' hearts
WASHINGTON (RNS) In a war between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement to capture the hearts of Americans, who wins? According to a new poll, it's a draw.
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After Mississippi defeat, what about ‘personhood’?
The failure of the "personhood" initiative in Mississippi in November
intensified what appears to be a growing divide in the antiabortion
movement.
White House flubs Bible, like everyone else
The White House proved itself scripturally challenged recently when
Press Secretary Jay Carney said: "I believe the phrase from the Bible
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Supreme Court hears religious hiring case
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday (Oct.
5) on religious exemptions to employment law, and advocates for greater
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World Vision wins employee faith case
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case involving
three employees who were fired by the Christian humanitarian agency
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Supreme Court to weigh churches' hiring rights
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Oct. 5.) will hear one
of most important religion cases in decades, centered on the degree to
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Poll finds evangelicals stand apart on evolution, climate change
WASHINGTON (RNS) White evangelicals and Tea Party members are less
likely to believe in evolution and climate change than most Americans, a
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