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Supreme Court marriage rulings: Anything but simple

(RNS)  If the range of possible Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage this month requires a scorecard, the potential confusion arising from those decisions may demand a manual.
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Appeals court OK’s pastor’s suit against Oklahoma license plate

| Jun 17, 2013

(RNS) A Methodist pastor of a suburban Oklahama City church is suing the state, claiming its license plate image of a Native American shooting an arrow into the sky violates his religious liberty.
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4 reasons why Republicans are rekindling evangelical outreach

| Jun 12, 2013

(RNS) Do Republicans have an evangelical problem in a party that’s been both derided and heralded as God’s Official Party?
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Why can’t the GOP be more like the Boy Scouts?

| Jun 5, 2013

When the Boy Scouts decided to revisit their policy of excluding gays boys from the organization, they did an extensive survey of Scouts and former Scouts, adult volunteers and parents in and out of scouting, and the general population. While the adult volunteers supported retaining the policy, everyone else backed a change. The Scouts changed.
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Al-Qaida magazine warns of more “lone wolf” attacks

| Jun 3, 2013

(RNS) The online English-language al-Qaida magazine Inspire, which once printed instructions for building a pressure-cooker bomb, has published a special edition that attempts to take credit for motivating the Boston bombers and warns the West of more “Lone Wolf” terrorist attacks. The Middle Ea...
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Coalition to protect religious freedom shows its fault lines

| May 30, 2013

WASHINGTON (RNS) In a conference full of people who champion traditional religious values, Amardeep Singh knew that everyone might not appreciate his recounting of the “uncomfortable” cab ride he had taken the previous day.
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Muslims condemn savage attack on British soldier

| May 23, 2013

LONDON (RNS) Leaders of Britain’s 2.8 million Muslims reacted with horror and anger following Wednesday’s (May 22) slaughter with knives and machetes of an off-duty British soldier in the streets outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in south London.
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Fear, freedom, and peace

| May 23, 2013

Barbara Benjamin shares an excerpt from her book,Christ Conscious Leadership, as we try to make sense of the global social and economic turmoil around us.
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Supreme Court to hear case on prayer at government meetings

| May 20, 2013

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court agreed Monday (May 20) to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings — a practice that’s been common in Congress and throughout the states for more than two centuries.
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Democracy and the defeat of radical Islam

| May 16, 2013

University of Hartford Professor Donald Ellis asks what's the United States to do about radical Islam? 
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COMMENTARY: President Obama, Mourner in Chief

| Apr 30, 2013

(RNS) Five men who know what it means to be president of the United States shared a stage in University Park, Texas. Then the incumbent among them flew to Waco, to mourn 11 first-responders, killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in the small town of West, Texas.
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