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December 2013

December 16, 2013
Mother Teresa was having a bad press conference. Journalists gathered for her 1989 Denver visit...
December 09, 2013
BUENOS AIRES -- It's hard to wrestle with the crucial moral and cultural issues in...
December 02, 2013
Even though it has been 50 years since his death, the faithful at Headington Parish...

November 2013

November 25, 2013
Blame it on Woodstock. Cultural changes unleashed by the sexual revolution are affecting how millions...
November 18, 2013
The Rev. Billy Graham has been worried about the state of America's soul for a...
November 11, 2013
In the middle of a New York Magazine dialogue on heaven and hell, damnation and...
November 04, 2013
Old-school preachers used to call them "backsliders," those folks who were raised in the pews...

October 2013

October 28, 2013
It happens all the time: Church leaders stand at podiums and urge members of their...
October 21, 2013
It was in 1775 that General George Washington authorized chaplains in the Continental Army. "Purity...
October 14, 2013
There is a Yiddish saying about the mysteries of faith, family and fellowship that, loosely...
October 07, 2013
Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of Islam threatened...

September 2013

September 30, 2013
It was the telephone call heard around the world, because the pope made the call....
September 23, 2013
Pollsters have been asking Americans questions about God, sex and babies for a long time...
September 16, 2013
For days, Christians with ties to Syria waited for news about the fighting in Maaloula,...
September 09, 2013
The first thing Chuck Lawless noticed when he entered the church foyer was that the...
September 02, 2013
The German Shepherd's name was Trapper and he came to St. Peter's Anglican Church with...

August 2013

August 26, 2013
Probing the mysteries of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI asked his flock gathered in 2006 to...
August 19, 2013
It was a blunt, honest, raw question and Deacon Greg Kandra knew it would stir...
August 12, 2013
It was a Saturday morning and the Rev. Jaman Iseminger had just dropped by to...
August 05, 2013
If Roman Catholicism can be compared with a fleet, then the Brazilian church has long...

July 2013

July 29, 2013
At the moment, Egypt is operating under a Constitutional Declaration issued soon after the recent...
July 22, 2013
The old Southern preacher had walked through many airport security gates using his cherry-wood cane...
July 15, 2013
As happens about this time every summer, tmatt headed to the Southern Highlands to take...
July 08, 2013
It was just another day, another Washington, D.C., press conference and yet another appeal for...
July 02, 2013
Every since the gay Boy Scouts earthquake, many Catholics have been asking canon law expert...

June 2013

June 24, 2013
Without a doubt, it's one of the most famous and magical incantations in American pop...
June 17, 2013
Visitors who enter Southern Baptist churches these days will usually see posters and pamphlets for...
June 10, 2013
There was a time when the faithful in the heavily Dutch corners of the Midwest...
June 03, 2013
There is nothing particularly unusual about conservative Catholics arguing with liberal Catholics, especially when it...

May 2013

May 27, 2013
IRS Commissioner Steven Miller was already having a rough day at the House Ways and...
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