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(RNS) — Candy Carson, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson's wife of 40 years, has written "A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson," in which she relates how faith has undergirded the couple's relationship. Born Lacena Rustin and later nicknamed "Candy"
(RNS) — A Christian professor who wrote on Facebook that Christians and Muslims "worship the same God" may be losing her tenured post at Wheaton College, the Illinois school known as the "evangelical Harvard." The college has begun an "employment action" that could cost Larycia
Faith
(RNS) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is never shy about voicing his strong, and strongly conservative, opinions about the role of religion in American society, and he has once again made headlines with what he called a "sermon" in which he said the U.S. Constitution can favor
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Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year "living like Jesus," died Saturday (Dec. 26). Dobson, the retired pastor of the prominent Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., suffered for more than 15 years from Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic
Faith
(RNS) — Part of the appeal and notoriety that Pope Francis gained during the first two years of his pontificate came from his penchant for using his cellphone to call people out of the blue, from a struggling single mother to his cobbler back in Argentina to an ostracized bishop, and
Abortion
Evangelist Franklin Graham has announced he is abandoning the Republican Party in disgust over the move by the GOP-led Congress last week to pass a budget that Graham said was "wasteful" and provided funding for Planned Parenthood, which he compared to the Nazis. Graham has previously said he
Faith
(RNS) — Following a surge of attacks on mosques and Muslims — a backlash against recent extremist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino — Islamic leaders have been installing more security cameras and hiring more security guards. But as they worry about the physical safety of their flocks, they are also paying attention
Faith
The massacre of nine African-American worshippers during a Bible study at a church in Charleston, S.C., earlier this year has led black and white churches to come together in an effort to improve race relations. On Tuesday (Dec. 15), the Conference of National Black Churches, a decades-old black church