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May 06, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Growing demand for spiritual directors
Natalie Weaver, a 25-year-old musician who lives in Roxbury, does not go to church.
May 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Billy Graham backs NC anti-gay marriage amendment
The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister's moral beliefs.
May 03, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Foes of Vanderbilt's nondiscrimination policy point to Harvard
When Vanderbilt wanted its freshmen students to learn about ethics, the school turned to the late Rev. Peter Gomes to teach them. Gomes’ book, The Good Life, was required reading for the Vanderbilt class of 2015.
May 03, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Texas pastor drives support for Chinese dissident
Only a few hours after blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left his sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the United States' declared it had won concessions over his future from the Chinese government, a soft-spoken 44-year-old West Texas pastor was questioning the official version of events.
May 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mormon church girds for landmark political race, with Romney as prominent face of the faith
As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell.
May 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Methodists vote against ending investments tied to Israel
The United Methodist Church, the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination, voted against two proposals on Wednesday to divest from companies that provide equipment used by Israel to enforce its control in the occupied territories.
May 02, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: From Bill Gates to Thomas Aquinas: Bible software company spreads the Word
Logos Bible Software might seem an odd company to bring the previously untranslated works of Thomas Aquinas to the masses.
April 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Okla. court halts effort to grant ‘personhood’ rights to embryos, says it’s unconstitutional
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday halted an effort to grant "personhood" rights to human embryos, saying the measure is unconstitutional.
April 30, 2012 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Reform Judaism focuses on youth
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who helped to lead a grass-roots revolution in the Union for Reform Judaism, visited Pittsburgh last week promoting plans to engage young families in synagogue life.
April 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Sikh group launches phone app to report unfair airport screeners, 2 complaints already made
A Sikh advocacy group has launched a free mobile application that allows travellers to complain immediately to the government about unfair treatment by airport security screeners.
April 27, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: With prison ministry, Colson linked religion and reform
“Since the 1960s, prison reform has been seen as a leftist cause,” Robert Perkinson, a historian and the author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire,” said this week.
April 25, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: A local link for overseas students
Tom Zhou arrived from Beijing three years ago to attend Chinese Christian High School here.
April 24, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Californians to vote on abolishing death penalty
California voters will soon get a chance to decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.
April 24, 2012 - The Atlantic
The Atlantic: Mitt Romney's gay spokesman: A milestone in Republican politics
The recent hiring of Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign-policy spokesman, represents a breakthrough in the world of Republican presidential campaigns.
April 24, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Georgetown faculty latest to chide Ryan
Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, has been excoriated by some Roman Catholic leaders ever since he claimed this month that his budget plan, which slashes antipoverty programs, was inspired by the moral teachings of his Catholic faith.
April 23, 2012 - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch: Bishop in Peoria stirs controversy, attracts support
It was under the imposing twin spires of St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria that Peoria's Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky sparked a political firestorm a week ago, with a sermon that appeared to equate President Barack Obama's policies on contraception coverage with the brutal attacks on religion imposed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
April 23, 2012 - NPR
NPR: Vatican reprimand of U.S. nuns divides faithful
The Vatican reprimanded America's largest organization of Catholic nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
April 19, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Vanderbilt anti-bias policy comes under attack before meeting
Christian groups opposed to Vanderbilt University’s nondiscrimination policy are ramping up their efforts as the school’s Board of Trust gathers for a two-day meeting in Nashville today.
April 19, 2012 - National Post
National Post: Presbyterians to probe maternity homes in wake of Post forced adoption revelations
The Presbyterian Church in Canada has launched an internal review of its historic maternity home practices, becoming the third church to do so since the National Post last month began an investigation into coerced and forced adoptions targeting unmarried mothers between the 1940s and 1980s.
April 18, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Vatican reprimands a group of U.S. nuns and plans changes
The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”
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