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As Americans Become Less Religious, Churches Must Change

June 18th, 2012

With the recent surge in efforts to roll back advances in women's reproductive rights and marriage equality for gays and lesbians, it's easy to believe the United States is becoming more religious than ever.

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Defending Ordination Rights in Michigan

May 21st, 2012

Michigan may be the site of yet another challenge to ordination rights. Current state law lacks specific language on what standards wedding officiants must meet to perform a legal wedding ceremony, but this may change.

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Ministers Search for the Spiritual Brain

April 30th, 2012

Where in the brain does God reside? Does spiritual experience originate in the mind? A researcher is trying to find the 'god spot' in our brains, and he thinks he might have just found it in the parietal lobe.

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Bronze-Age Sexism in the Modern-Day Church

February 23rd, 2012

The model of "Christianity as masculinity" has developed into a sort of religious trend of late, as if to counteract rapid social changes in gender and sexual identity.

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Washington State Legalizes Gay Marriage

February 13th, 2012

On Monday, 13 February, Washington State legalized gay marriage when Governor Christine Gregoire signed into law a marriage equality bill passed by the state Legislature.

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Why Florida's School Prayer Bill is a Bad Idea

February 3rd, 2012

On the same day as the Washington state senate votes on a bill to legalize gay marriage, the Florida senate wants to legalize prayer in public school classrooms.

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“Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus” Video Sparks Furore

January 20th, 2012

Just two days after it was posted on Youtube, the video had racked up over 2 million views and now has over 15 million. The number of comments now totals over 30,000.

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Why Should Church and State Be Kept Separate?

November 16th, 2011

By now many of us are familiar with the right-wing argument that religion and government are inextricably intertwined, that the two have always mixed and can never be completely separated.

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Does Reading the Bible Make People More Liberal?

October 27th, 2011

Frequent Bible-reading can make people more liberal, posits a Baylor University doctoral candidate in his master's thesis, contradicting commonly-held stereotypes about liberals and conservatives.

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Christian Professor: “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

October 15th, 2011

A speech titled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" addresses the conflict between Christian theology and the potential discovery of life on other planets. The speech asks, if Jesus exists, did he die for aliens?

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