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All Religion
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Guide to Giving
Gratitude: a healthy recipe for Thanksgiving
Gratitude is an ethic that experts now see as equally secular and religious – not to mention a healthy recipe for Thanksgiving all year round.
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Guide to Giving
How to kick-start gratitude – on Thanksgiving and year round
A Thanksgiving kick-start for gratitude: Four suggestions.
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How parents keep the faith: The rock of belief is at home
Soccer games may supplant Sunday school, but parents keep the faith by making home the rock of belief more than church-going.
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How parents keep the faith: a Christmas gift of mitzvahs
More important to the Caplans than temple attendance is modeling their Jewish identity – like offering mitzvahs of music as a Christmas gift – as a way to help their children keep the faith.
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How parents keep the faith: Teaching the religion of Islam at home
Home, more than the mosque, is where the Malik children learn the religion of Islam – from Skyping to Pakistan for Quranic lessons to copying Mom's prayers.
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How parents keep the faith: Mandate a moral code, not theology
For the Unitarian Parker parents, to keep the faith is to offer a universal moral code and let the child pick theology.
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How parents keep the faith: getting spiritual meaning at home, not church
These parents keep the faith – in Christ – by teaching spiritual meaning in everything from the food they eat to TV commercials.
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A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuilding
Conflict negotiator and writer John Paul Lederach has spent decades seeking new paths to peacebuilding.
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USA
Post 9/11, Americans say Muslims face most discrimination
But many also see Islam as a violent religion, according to a Pew Forum survey.
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USA
Evangelicals march north
Southern Baptists are among those ‘planting’ new churches in the rocky soil of secular New England.
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USA
Evangelicals march north
Southern Baptists are among those ‘planting’ new churches in the rocky soil of secular New England.
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Society
Ranks of atheists grow, get organized
Long defined by what they are not, nonbelievers increasingly try to define what they are.
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Society
Ranks of atheists grow, get organized
Long defined by what they are not, nonbelievers increasingly try to define what they are.
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Society
Breakaway Episcopalians install a new archbishop
Pittsburgh's Robert Duncan heads new Anglican body, seeks to move past culture-war schism
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USA
Africa contributes biggest share of new members to Christian Science church
At its Annual Meeting, the church emphasizes global outreach, financial stewardship
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Society
Churches without the church
Foreclosures have forced some churches to meet in homes or cafes. Now, others are joining in – willingly.
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Cowboys saddle up for ... church? Amen.
Evangelical Christians round up the faithful in barns and riding arenas.
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People Making a Difference
People making a difference: Steve Korman
With the US mired in a deep recession, this CEO is challenging fellow business leaders to resist layoffs.
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Society
Why so many Americans switch religions
A new Pew survey suggests that many Catholics leave their church because of doctrine, whereas Protestants tend to leave because of life changes such as marriage.
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Society
On divisive issue of gay clergy, two churches weigh softer stance
Lutherans and Presbyterians may allow local congregations to choose people in same-sex relationships as pastors.
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