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As the stand off between workers and Governor Scott Walker continues
in Wisconsin, religious leaders have weighed in on the dispute.  Roman Catholic bishops came out on the
side of the unions, urging the governor to protect worker's rights.  Many mainline pastors, including
Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, and
American Baptists have written letters, issued statements, and preached sermons
supporting labor, unions, and...

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Beck is a Mormon, and a self-made
leader in the re-emergent Religious Right and Tea Party movements, and Graham
is a Baptist evangelist, long-time esteemed leader of American
evangelicalism.  An unlikely pair.  Yet, in the last Gallup poll for "most
admired man" Beck and Graham tied in the top 10, behind Barack Obama, George
W. Bush, and Nelson Mandela. For almost a year, Beck has tried to meet Graham,
who turned...

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In April 1967, a year before he was killed, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached on the "fierce urgency of now" in a sermon entitled, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence."  Of all his speeches, it remains the least remembered because it summoned Christians to protest Vietnam. Despite the specific historical references, however, King's argument that civil
rights and world peace are interwoven offers...

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"Gabby opened her eyes."

When President Obama uttered these simple words, the crowd
at the Tucson memorial service cheered wildly.  "Gabby opened her eyes."

Four simple words.  Four very spiritual words.

Congresswoman Giffords was shot at the beginning of the Christian
season called Epiphany.  This year,
Epiphany lasts until March 8, the day before Ash Wednesday.  The word, epiphany, means
"manifestation," "revelation," or...

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The Sunday
after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, my husband's family attended
their Presbyterian church.  They
went with heavy hearts, expecting the pastor to help make sense of the
tragedy.  The minister rose to
preach.  The congregation held its
breath.  But he said nothing of the events in Memphis.  He
preached as if nothing had happened.

My husband's
family left church that day disappointed;...

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As a working mother who lives in the Washington-metro area,
I admit that I'm dreading Bravo's new program The Real Housewives of D.C. (begins 8/05).  I took some comfort in the Washington
Post's scathing advance review of it:

Every word of the title is wrong, except "the" and "of."...

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This week, best-selling author Anne Rice renounced Christianity on
her Facebook page, "For those who care, and I understand if you don't:
Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out." 
She continued:

"I remain
committed to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' or to being part of
Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this...

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