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  • June 2008

    • Site Will Email Buddies After You Depart in Rapture

      ABC News  |  Jun 10, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      Site Will Email Buddies After You Depart in Rapture

      (Newser) - A new website will email godless friends and family left behind after you’ve been taken to heaven in the Rapture. For $40 per year, Youvebeenleftbehind.com will store any emails and documents for you, ABC reports—then send them about six days after the Lord hath taken away. The server will know the time has come when its employees don’t log on. More »

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      Internet  • email  • evangelism  • computer servers

  • August 2007

    • Gospel Lives in the Oval Office

      Bloomberg  |  Aug 29, 07 12:41 PM CDT

      Gospel Lives in the Oval Office

      (Newser) - Billy Graham has seen US leaders laid bare, from skinny-dipping with LBJ to long walks on the beach with GWB. A new book details the ailing 88-year-old preacher’s rendezvous with presidents past, including counseling Ford to pardon Nixon and advising Hillary Clinton to look past Monica Lewinsky. Graham’s refusal to be a party booster has lent him his independent spiritual voice, Bloomberg reports. More »

    • Camo Bible Lets Faithful Hunt 'n' Pray

      Reuters  |  Aug 13, 07 4:36 PM CDT

      Camo Bible Lets Faithful Hunt 'n' Pray

      (Newser) - Evangelical Christians are not used to hiding their faith—but pious hunters have to when gilded scripture covers catch the eye of their prey. An Arkansas-based online outdoors shop is solving the problem with Bibles covered in leaves and tree bark, as well as camo covers for personal copies of the Good Book. Starting at just under $20, the tricky testaments are the retailer's bestselling items. More »

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      Christianity  • gun control  • Bible  • Republican evangelicals  • evangelism  • hunters

    • Born-Again Actor Leads Charge into Iraq

      Nation  |  Aug 9, 07 9:22 AM CDT

      Born-Again Actor Leads Charge into Iraq

      (Newser) - A ventriloquist and a born-again movie star are among those headed for Iraq to entertain US soldiers and fold them into the arms of the Lord, writes Max Blumenthal in the Nation . All well and good, but this version of the Almighty, delivered by the likes of Stephen Baldwin, is funded by the US Defense Department. More »

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      Iraq  • religion  • military  • Defense Department  • evangelism

  • July 2007

    • Tammy Faye Messner Dies at 65

      CNN  |  Jul 22, 07 7:48 AM CDT

      Tammy Faye Messner Dies at 65

      (Newser) - Televangelist and Christian entertainer Tammy Faye Messner died Friday morning, CNN reports. She had struggled with drug addiction throughout her life and finally died of cancer. Messner had recently been a guest on Larry King Live, appearing precariously ill, claiming she could no longer swallow food and weighed only 65 pounds. More »

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      obituary  • Christianity  • Larry King  • evangelism  • televangelist

  • June 2007

    • Barack Bashes Right for 'Hijacking' Faith

      New York Daily News  |  Jun 24, 07 2:23 PM CDT

      Barack Bashes Right for 'Hijacking' Faith

      (Newser) - Barack Obama assailed right-wing evangelical leaders yesterday, accusing them of "hijacking" faith and politicizing religion, the Daily News reports. Addressing the national conference of the United Church of Christ, he criticized "so-called leaders of the Christian right" for demonizing Democrats and convincing Americans that Christians' main concerns are gay marriage and abortion. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Democrats  • religion  • politics  • evangelicals  • evangelism

    • Ruth Graham Dead at 87

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 15, 07 4:14 AM CDT

      Ruth Graham Dead at 87

      (Newser) - Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham, stayed in the background of the legendary evangelist's ministry but was far from obscure. The missionary's daughter was at once demure, feisty, independent, and unpredictable, the LA Times reports. Graham, who died yesterday at 87, was also an accomplished poet and parent to five children whose father often traveled for months at a time. More »

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      obituary  • religion  • evangelism  • Billy Graham

  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • Bible Belt Brings Fight to Europe

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Apr 17, 07 11:36 AM CDT

      Bible Belt Brings Fight to Europe

      (Newser) - American evangelicals have opened a new front in the culture wars—across the Atlantic. Christian groups, including Pat Robertson's legal organization, the American Center for Law and Justice, are actively challenging German laws against home schooling, defending Britons who refuse to work on Sunday, and combating same-sex marriage and stem cell research across the continent. More »

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      religion  • Europe  • Christianity  • stem cells  • Pat Robertson  • evangelism  • home schooling

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