A billboard campaign orchestrated by a right-to-die group remains alive and well, but it already has gone straight to heaven.
Totally secular right to die
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No ghost in this sex-ed story!
Let’s face it. There are hot-button topics in the American public square that, in even in the context of our increasingly post-Christian culture, are going to raise religion flags.
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Burying the Wright stuff?
Remember the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright? It’s been a few years since the White House campaign, so let’s review. Wright was President Obama’s pastor who made controversial remarks in his sermons, such as suggesting the U.S. should be damned. Obama gave a speech on race and religion and eventually broke ties with Wright during the 2008 campaign.
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Faith and the 'One and Done' tradition
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why so many mainstream journalists do not want to write about the practical implications of the choices made by liberal religious believers and even those of skeptics. While coverage of religious conservatives (much of it inaccurate or simply simplistic) consumes oceans of ink, the fine details of the lives of liberal believers are rarely examined.
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The fundamentalists are everywhere
There’s a certain irony in the relationship between atheism and Christianity and this ABC News story highlights that. It’s about some subset of atheists adopting a debaptism rite modeled on the Christian baptism rite.
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NPR on China's Christian awakening
NPR yesterday began a multi-part series on the rise of religious belief in China’s spiritual vacuum. And it’s not off to a good start.
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About those flying monkeys
It’s such a simple thing, I guess, but I love the way Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ann Rodgers previews upcoming religious events. It doesn’t matter what my level of interest is going into one of her stories, I always come away something to think about.
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Death by symbolic head scarf
There is no question that the following story from Canada.com and the Calgary Herald is, when push comes to shove, a crime story. Yet the lede signals that something else is going on, something that readers have to wait a long, long time to find out when reading this report.
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Did God pick Harry Reid's opponent?
No longer content to play a role only in Bible Belt politics, the Almighty has entered the fray in Republican Sharron Angle’s bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.
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