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July 2014

July 21, 2014
It was one of those symbolic questions that pollsters toss into the mix when probing...
July 14, 2014
When leaders of traditional faith groups think about reaching out to Millennials, religious seekers, unaffiliated...
July 07, 2014
Anglicans seem to be hopeful about their flocks in the United States, even if the...
July 01, 2014
Surely one of our world's most endangered species -- right up there with the Mountain...

June 2014

June 23, 2014
As sermons go, it was not the kind of pulpit performance that -- when it...
June 16, 2014
While he knows that millions of teetotalling Christians disagree, Father William Miller believes he can...
June 09, 2014
Soon after its birth, the MTV network tried to branch out with "Remote Control," a...
June 02, 2014
The Holy Land pilgrimage by Pope Francis contained plenty of symbolic gestures, photo ops and...

May 2014

May 26, 2014
When Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrived in America recently representatives of the United States government...
May 19, 2014
As the members of the Town of Greece Board prepared for business, a local Catholic...
May 12, 2014
The Rev. Heath Lambert usually hears one of two responses when he tries to get...
May 05, 2014
History will show St. John XXIII was a pastor with an "exquisite openness to the...

April 2014

April 28, 2014
Soon after Pope Francis skyrocketed into media superstardom, some frustrated Catholics started playing an online...
April 21, 2014
It's the first thing people do after meeting strangers in coffee shops and clubs favored...
April 14, 2014
Father Seraphim Aldea is so committed to building the first Orthodox monastery in the Scottish...
April 07, 2014
When church historians review the 2014 World Vision wars over gay marriage, they will ponder...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
When major religious leaders die, it's traditional that public figures -- secular and sacred --...
March 24, 2014
NEW YORK -- It was a perfectly ordinary invitation to gather for Christian fellowship, the...
March 17, 2014
With Ash Wednesday behind them, online friends of Hollywood screenwriter Barbara Nicolosi braced themselves for...
March 10, 2014
It takes lots of praying, preaching and singing to mourn a president of the Church...
March 03, 2014
The image projected onto the giant screen above the recent Kenneth Copeland Ministries conference was...

February 2014

February 24, 2014
LOS ANGELES -- When pollster David Kinnaman went to college two decades ago, his Generation...
February 17, 2014
From the moment he rose to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast, it was clear...
February 10, 2014
At some point before 35-year-old Jesse Ryan Loskarn hanged himself in his parents' home outside...
February 03, 2014
At first glance, the original rules written to govern the Apple App Store seem to...

January 2014

January 27, 2014
In a career packed with sound bites, the late Steve Jobs offered one of his...
January 20, 2014
This joke may be the most famous in all of Baptist humor. While crossing a...
January 13, 2014
This elderly patriarch's image is certainly striking, with his stern face and a gray beard...

December 2013

December 30, 2013
Popes come and popes go, with a new pope elected every few years or decades....
December 23, 2013
Night after night, Jesse and Kelly Cone led their children through some of the most...
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