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U2's lead singer, Bono, during performances sometimes quotes passages from "The Message," a translation of the Bible known for its more casual, 21st century vernacular. In 2002, he said in an interview that he read parts of the Psalms from "The Message" to his
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For the first time, the Bible landed on the top-10 list of books that drew the most protests when found in libraries or classrooms. The problem: its religious viewpoint. With plenty of books published annually that various groups find offensive, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom
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Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. There are bound to be some who don't like him. But what is of greater interest is that so many non-Catholics love him. In fact, this week's People magazine features Pope Francis on its
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In his latest sharp-witted work, perhaps the world's most well-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch Abraham. Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer&
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(RNS) — For about a month after he returned from England last year, a Montclair State University professor did not realize what a treasure he had found in a rare books library at Cambridge University. While abroad, Jeffrey A. Miller, an assistant professor of English at the New Jersey school, had
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VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) – Numerous bishops voiced alarm over the lack of a clear definition of marriage in the synod's controversial guiding text, prompting a call for one based on scripture and Church teaching to be added. "The Instrumentum Laboris nowhere defines marriage. This is a
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(RNS) — The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors is planning what it calls evangelical Christians' first-ever conference on transgender issues. The association will co-sponsor "Transgender Confusion and Transformational Christianity" with the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on Oct. 5 on the campus of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Written by Miriam Berger JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than 1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British Library in London, the National Library of Israel said Monday.
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