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The White House has announced plans to add a popular evangelical writer, a Ferguson, Mo., activist and a Methodist megachurch pastor to President Obama's list of faith-based advisers. They are: Rachel Held Evans
Democrats
On the growing list of ways the "outsiders" election of 2016 is upsetting conventional political wisdom, here's a new entry: A contender's lack of strong faith is not the deal breaker it once was for voters, according to a survey released Wednesday (Jan. 27)
Faith
On July 9, 1850, the Baha'i figure called the Bab was killed. Believed to be a messenger of God proclaiming the impending arrival of Baha'u'llah, he was executed for apostasy by firing squad in the Persian Empire. According to Baha'i accounts, the
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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
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
Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS – Hollywood star Denzel Washington, the son of a pastor, preached a sermon of gratefulness Saturday evening to hundreds of members of the Church of God in Christ at their annual Holy Congregation in downtown St. Louis. "I pray that you put your slippers way under your bed
assisted suicide
Should physician-assisted suicide be legal in Massachusetts? Some say the measure helps people seeking to avoid a painful death, others believe unintended consequences could easily arise when insurers are left to choose expensive, life-prolonging treatments or cheap, fatal drugs. What do you believe? YES NO UNDECIDED
Faith
(RNS) — Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as committed to their faiths as they were in the past — in certain respects even more so. The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, released Tuesday
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