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  • July 2008

    • Pope to Kids: Spurn 'Spiritual Desert'

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 20, 08 9:11 AM CDT

      Pope to Kids: Spurn 'Spiritual Desert'

      Pope Benedict XVI called on young Christians to revive spirituality by rejecting modern society's greed and materialism, AP reports. At a mass of 350,000 young pilgrims in Sydney, and a global TV audience of millions, the pope called for "a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy, and self-absorption which deadens our souls." The mass concluded a six-day World Youth festival, which drew crowds from 160 countries. More »

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      religion  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Christianity  • Sydney  • Roman Catholicism  • World Youth Day  • Mass  • pilgrims

    • Obama's Unique Road to Faith

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jul 13, 08 3:19 PM CDT

      Obama's Unique Road to Faith

      As a young man, Barack Obama experienced a lonely, drawn-out crisis of faith—and now finds himself churchless as the whole world watches, Newsweek reports. His father was an atheist Muslim, his mother a Christian who turned secular, and Obama eventually embraced Chicago's Trinity United after years of church-based activism. His conversion wasn't "a bolt of lightning," he said. "It was more a gradual process." More »

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      Barack Obama  • religion  • Obama 2008  • Jeremiah Wright  • Christianity  • Trinity United Church of Christ  • spirituality

    • Devil, US May Care About Satanist's Custody Fight

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 10, 08 10:41 AM CDT

      Devil, US May Care About Satanist's Custody Fight

      An Indiana man says he is a loving father who just wants to share his faith with his kids—but his Christian ex-wife would prefer their daughters spent Sunday morning in church instead of with their Satanist dad. The custody case raises thorny church and state issues, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      religion  • Christianity  • child custody  • custody  • custody battle  • Satan

    • Ancient Text Casts Doubt on Resurrection

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Jul 10, 08 2:00 AM CDT

      Ancient Text Casts Doubt on Resurrection

      A new interpretation of a tablet written in 1st century BC questions the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Times of London reports. One biblical scholar says the text conveys the story of an angel telling a dying Jew, killed by Romans 4 years before Christ's birth, that he will live in 3 days. More »

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      religion  • Christianity  • Bible  • Judaism  • Jesus Christ  • resurrection  • New Testament  • Dead Sea

    • The Gospel According to Jefferson

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 6, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      The Gospel According to Jefferson

      Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted together his own New Testament, removing everything he refused to believe—like miracles and the resurrection of Jesus, the Los Angeles Times reports. Dubbed the Jefferson Bible, it reflects his deist belief that God created the universe and let it run on its own. But Jefferson revered Jesus' teachings as a "sublime and benevolent code of morals." More »

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      Christianity  • Bible  • Jesus Christ  • miracle  • gospel  • resurrection  • Thomas Jefferson

    • Pragmatism Dictates China's Religious Policy

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Jul 2, 08 8:51 PM CDT

      Pragmatism Dictates China's Religious Policy

      China officially sanctions religious worship only at state facilities, but the Christian Science Monitor finds that plenty of wiggle room exists in the business world. It profiles one company whose Christian CEO is allowed to put up a church at every worksite. Why such accommodation in a formally atheist state? The company, SMIC, makes semiconductors, an area of production China is desperate to increase for its domestic electronics industry. More »

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      China  • technology  • Christianity  • electronics  • atheism  • religious conflict  • religious freedom  • semiconductor chip

  • June 2008

    • Christian Novel Outstrips Oprah Pick

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 24, 08 9:16 AM CDT

      Christian Novel Outstrips Oprah Pick

      Once rejected by multiple mainstream publishers, the slim Christian novel The Shack is flying off shelves, topping the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. “Everybody that I know has bought at least 10 copies,” says one devotee. The Times looks at a blockbuster built around an unconventional depiction of God—as a jolly black woman named “Papa.” More »

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      religion  • book  • literature  • Christianity  • best seller

    • Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jun 16, 08 4:35 PM CDT

      Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      Stephen Mansfield expects to cast his ballot against Barack Obama in November. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing an admiring book about the candidate's religious profile— The Faith of Barack Obama —which argues that the candidate may well steal young evangelical voters away from John McCain. McCain is “clumsy when it comes to religion,” Mansfield tells Politico, in stark contrast to Obama’s “fluency” in the language of Christianity. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • election 2008  • book  • abortion  • Christianity  • evangelicals  • abortion rights  • Republican evangelicals

    • Jordan Cave May Be World's First Church

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 10, 08 5:04 PM CDT

      Jordan Cave May Be World's First Church

      Archaeologists have found what might be the world’s oldest Christian church in Rihab, Jordan, the BBC reports. The cavern, located under the also-ancient church of St. Georgeous, dates to between 33 and 70 AD, and doubled as a home. More »

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      Christianity  • archaeology  • church  • Jordan  • Roman Empire

  • May 2008
  • March 2008

    • Easter Defies Madison Avenue

      newser  |  Slate  |  Mar 23, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Easter Defies Madison Avenue

      Christmas’ religious meaning is lost in a sea of advertising, parties, and major retail dollars, but Easter has resisted becoming a “consumerist nightmare”—and that’s because its Christian origins demand serious thought, writes James Martin in Slate . While “the Christmas story is easily reduced to pablum,” Easter’s story of crucifixion and resurrection is “relentlessly disconcerting,” Martin observes. More »

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      religion  • advertising  • Christianity  • Christmas  • holiday  • Jesus Christ  • Easter  • consumerism  • resurrection  • commercialism

    • World's Holy Days Converge

      newser  |  Time  |  Mar 21, 08 8:51 AM CDT

      World's Holy Days Converge

      This Good Friday is not simply the most solemn day in the Christian calendar but a convergence of movable feasts that doesn't occur more than once in a century. March 21 is also the first day of the Jewish festival of Purim and the celebration of the birth of the prophet Muhammed. The three holidays have fallen on the same day only nine times in 800 years, Time reports. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • Christianity  • Judaism  • Buddhism  • Good Friday  • Hindus

    • Gorbachev Admits He's Christian

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Mar 19, 08 9:00 AM CDT

      Gorbachev Admits He's Christian

      Nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union's atheist empire, Mikhail Gorbachev has admitted he is a Christian, reports the Daily Telegraph . On a visit to Italy the last president of the Communist state prayed at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, and later told priests the saint had played a fundamental role in his life. "St. Francis is, for me, the alter Christus, the other Christ," said Gorbachev. More »

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      religion  • Italy  • Christianity  • Ronald Reagan  • Soviet Union  • Mikhail Gorbachev  • Communists

    • Evangelicals Turn Back to Ritual

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 8, 08 12:51 PM CST

      Evangelicals Turn Back to Ritual

      Evangelical Christians are increasingly turning to long-shunned traditions as a means of practicing their faith, reports the Washington Post . In a trend some call “worship renewal,” some are reviving Catholic customs such as fasting for Lent, going to confession, and weekly communion. “Evangelicalism is coming to point where the early church has become the newest staple of its diet,” says a theology professor. More »

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      Christianity  • Catholicism  • evangelicals  • Catholics  • Christians  • confession  • traditions  • ancient customs  • monasteries  • communion  • Lent

    • Teddy Teacher Spurs UK to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 6, 08 2:12 PM CST

      Teddy Teacher Spurs UK to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

      Britain's House of Lords voted yesterday to abolish blasphemy laws after an international incident sparked debate over secularism and tradition, the Los Angeles Times reports. With the UK and Sudan at odds in November over the prosecution of a British teacher allowing students to name a teddy bear Mohammad, many pointed out the hypocrisy of having a similar measure on common-law books. More »

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      Great Britain  • Islam  • Sudan  • Christianity  • Jesus Christ  • teddy bears  • Gillian Gibbons  • blasphemy  • hypocrisy

    • Pope to Cut Luther a Break

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Mar 6, 08 5:33 AM CST

      Pope to Cut Luther a Break

      Five centuries after he ignited the Reformation by challenging papal authority, Martin Luther is expected to get a break from—of all people—Pope Benedict XVI. The pope is German and ostensibly that's the only thing he has in common with Luther. Nevertheless, the pope plans a warmer and fuzzier re-evaluation of the monk who divided Christianity in 1517, according to the Times of London. Benedict is expected to argue that Luther didn't intend to divide the Church—only cleanse it of corruption. More »

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      Islam  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Christianity  • Muslims  • heresy

  • February 2008

    • Rice Plans Another Vampire Book

      newser  |  Time  |  Feb 25, 08 12:50 PM CST

      Rice Plans Another Vampire Book

      When atheist and chronicler of the undead Anne Rice embraced Christianity in 2005, she seemed to seal the coffin on her Vampire Chronicles. But she's backtracking on her vow to write only about the Lord and not Lestat. "I have one more book that I would really like to write," Rice tells Time. "It will be a story that I need to tell." More »

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      Christianity  • atheism  • vampire

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