ROBERT ASKS:Â Do you think God hears, listens to, prayers of anyone?
Does God hear prayers from just anyone?
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CNN puts religious liberty in 'scare quotes,' but corrects it
It was one of the most famous First Amendment cases in American history. As the American Civil Liberties Union website notes:
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AP's not-too-religious airport chaplain story
The entire long Thanksgiving weekend, it’s widely reported, is the busiest air-travel season in the United States. So, it’s not too difficult to imagine human interest stories about life in and around major airports, which The Associated Press rightly declares are “mini-cities” with a life and culture all their own, right down to a local church or, in most cases, an interfaith chapel.
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A religion ghost in the healing power of hoops?
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As on a darkling plain - Prozac and France
The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
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Pod people: The Los Angeles Times cheers for United Methodist 'reform'
If readers want to know where The Los Angeles Times stands on the issues the loomed over the United Methodist Church trial of the Rev. Frank Schaefer, all they have to do is read one summary passage in a recent update.
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Hey Washington Post: What did Pope Francis actually say about abortion?
It is a serious understatement to note that Pope Francis has made more than his share of news during the honeymoon months of his papacy. Mainstream reporters have rushed to cover almost everything this charismatic leader has had to say.
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Reuters skips a key detail in Israel's wedding wars -- divorce
Everybody loves a wedding, or so culture would have us believe. However, according to a report from the Reuters news agency, not every Israeli likes the wedding options available in that country:
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What was the demon Adam Lanza locked in that hard drive?
From the beginning, there was a familiar moral tension at the heart of news coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. It’s hard to ponder such a hellish act without wanting to be able to name the demon, to link the actions of the young gunman to some kind of logical motive.
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