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March 3rd, 2017
The United States has been rocked by a recent wave of anti-Semitism. Across the country, incidents of threats and vandalism have sparked alarm and forced Jewish communities into action. One bright spot: they're not alone in the struggle for peace.
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January 4th, 2016
The winter holidays may largely be over, but we're still seeing a lot of questions about proper holiday etiquette. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. At least, that’s what most of the holiday songs on the radio like to tell us. It’s a time when m
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January 21st, 2014
How would you like to take your wedding on tour across the nation? One couple from Seattle did exactly that last year. Rather than hold their wedding ceremony inside a place of worship, Dane Kuttler and Rowan Parker got legally married by a Universal Life Chur
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November 18th, 2013
You have probably heard people say that the benefit of having divorced parents is that you get twice as many Christmas presents. It might also be said that the benefit of having both Jewish and Christian parents is that you get presents on Christmas as well as
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November 15th, 2013
The History channel no longer hides the fact that it has done away with history programming in favor of programming on religion and conspiracy theories as well as reality television, earning criticism from scientists, scholars, and skeptics. Earlier this year
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October 25th, 2013
Take away barriers to gender and religion in marriage, and what is left? Apparently, love. That is what it boiled down to for a retired Catholic priest and his Jewish partner, who finally got married in the U.S. state of New Jersey after twenty years together.
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September 5th, 2013
Religious people are less intelligent than atheists, if you can believe the findings of a recent study on the relationship between religion and intelligence. The findings will undoubtedly ruffle the feathers of many devoutly religious people. We should be care
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June 5th, 2013
If God’s “grace” covers atheists—as Pope Francis I recently declared—it covers Wiccans and members of other earth-based religions too, a Christian pastor has said. The Rev. Dr. Sarah Halverson, of Fairview Community Church in Costa Mesa, California,
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May 14th, 2013
By now it should be apparent that young people are becoming increasingly disabused by religion and leaving conventional churches in ever growing numbers, but are they seeking a spiritual alternative, and if so, what? In a recent Huffington Post article, Rory M
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