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Date: 01/24/2012
I reported for Reuters at the Washington state Capitol yesterday , covering the public hearings on a gay marriage bill -- and in between, the breaking news that the state Senate now has enough votes to pass the bill. (The House already had enough votes.) It now appears that Washington's lawmakers will legalize gay marriage next month, while opponents work on gathering the 260,000-plus signatures ...
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Date: 01/26/2012
Alaska Airlines, now the country's seventh-largest airline, has announced it will stop offering prayer cards with its in-flight meals. (It's just raining religion news in the great unchurched Pacific Northwest lately.) I've flown Alaska several times since moving to Seattle, but I confess that I've never noticed these Psalm quotations. They were only offered on flights longer than four ...
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Date: 01/23/2012
________________________________________________________ King James Bible [Acts 5:29] Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. ________________________________________________________ Obama Gives Faith Groups One Year to Comply With Contraceptive Mandate CitizenLink by Karla Dial Despite a months-long lobbying ef ...
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Date: 01/23/2012
The United States remains the country that foreigners criticize the most and want to move to the most. Pursuing the American dream remains a potent motivator for every wave of immigration. It is also a constant theme among this year's crop of Republican hopefuls, who criticize President Obama for tearing down national greatness and pride. Yet beyond hope and rhetoric there are some undeniable fac ...
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Date: 01/20/2012
[caption id="attachment_1743" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Click to make the Christian hipsters bigger. (You have to do it twice.)"] [/caption] For decades, Portland’s Southeast Hawthorne neighborhood has been a center for our city’s West Coast counterculture, offering more head shops, thrift stores and local arts and crafts than you can shake a doobie at. You don’t have to share a ...
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Date: 01/10/2012
Voting has begun in the New Hampshire primary , and I expect that Mitt Romney will continue to do well -- especially since New Hampshire voters care a lot less about religious bonafides (aka Jesus talk) than their counterparts in Iowa and South Carolina. As for last week's Iowa caucus results, here's an excerpt from my analysis at the USC Knight Chair in Media & Religion's Trans/Mission ...
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Date: 01/08/2012
Mark Driscoll, the founding and preaching pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, apparently has a new book out titled Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship and Life Together . I was introduced to Driscoll's book by a friend (Rachel Held-Evans) of a friend (Michael Frost) on Facebook, and while I have not read it, I now feel qualified, having read Rachel Held-Evans' very helpful revi ...
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Date: 01/04/2012
Rep. Michele Bachmann suspended her presidential campaign after placing sixth in Tuesday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, she announced today. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Michele Bachmann, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 6th district Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 2007"] [/caption] “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very ...
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