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11/11/20117-Year-Old Georgia Boy Helps Santa Save Christmas
A young gift-giver in Canton, Ga., is providing a family with an early Christmas present this year – hope.
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11/11/2011Will the Senate Save the US Commission on International Religious Freedom?
Time is running out for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to take action on saving the American government's signature religious freedom agency.
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11/10/2011Author: God Does Not Exist for Our Self-Gratification
Peter Rollins hopes his writings inspire a revolution in religion. The uprising he advocates in Insurrection: To Believe Is Human – To Doubt, Divine, however, is spiritual rather than physical. Believers have commodified Christ, he argues, and it must stop.
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11/09/2011Next Teen Star Is … Sammi Hanratty?
Sammi Hanratty has seen and done more than most 16-year-olds.
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11/09/2011Christian Rock Band Abandon Takes Over Secular Television
San Antonio's Abandon joined the Christian rock community in 2002 and have risen meteorically ever since. Begun as a church worship band, they're now ministering to the mainstream with catchy, openly spiritual rock singles.
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11/09/2011Pro Wrestling Film Grapples With God
A new documentary explores what it's like to be a pro wrestler pinned down for the count only for Jesus to tag in and make the save. "Wrestling for Jesus" is a film sharing the trials and tribulations of Timothy "T-Money" Blackmon, a pro wrestler who forms an evangelical wrestling league
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11/08/2011Not Another Tween Movie
“The Greening of Whitney Brown” is a film that could have followed predictable pre-teen formulas already done by the Disney Channel. It instead veers slightly off-course, placing enough focus on the title character's family that viewers are left with another experience entirely.
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11/07/2011New As I Lay Dying Album Unafraid of Departing From the Divine
San Diego's As I Lay Dying has weathered over a decade in the heavy metal underground. Through it all, they've remained dedicated defenders of Christianity and written music that slams as hard as their secular peers. Their latest release, Decas, drives this point home with a mosh pit ministry that should appeal to sinners and saints alike.
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11/07/2011Author: US Christians Should Extend Grace to Arab World
Carl Medearis maintains that peace between Christians and Muslims remains vital. In America, he says, things are tenser than they used to be. We already think Muslims are scary, suspicious, and terrorists lurking around the corner. The media didn't create that. The real issue is that we already think that.
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11/04/2011Poll Shows Americans Split on Same-Sex Marriage
The Pew Research Center released a new poll Thursday that shows the culture war over same-sex marriage won't be cooling down anytime soon.
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11/04/2011Joel Osteen Ends 'Every Day a Friday' Book Tour; No. 2 on NYT List
The latest book by megachurch pastor Joel Osteen continues selling millions of copies even though a book tour promoting it ended at Cincinnati's Joseph-Beth Booksellers store Thursday night.
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11/03/2011American Red Cross Sends Military Holiday Messages Overseas
The American Red Cross is rallying citizens to create greeting cards blessing the nation's troops stationed abroad this holiday season.
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11/03/2011Evangelicals Land, Wallis Debate Faith's Role in 2012 Elections
A pair of prominent evangelicals met at D.C.'s National Press Club Wednesday night and examined the part religion will play in next year's presidential election. On the one hand was Dr. Richard Land and on the other was the Rev. Jim Wallis
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11/02/2011Detroit Lions Players Say 'Tebowing' Wasn't Disrespectful
The Detroit Lions' 45-10 blowout of the Denver Broncos last Sunday remains a hot topic among football fans, but their focus has shifted from the score to questions of sportsmanship.
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11/02/2011As I Lay Dying Drummer Talks New Album, Holiness, Heavy Metal
San Diego's As I Lay Dying formed in 2000 and has since morphed into one of heavy metal's most popular bands. Named after William Faulkner's classic 1930 novel, the quintet's upcoming Nov. 8 release, Decas, is a compilation celebrating over a decade of the band's storied history.


