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The Light of the World

What makes Christmas special? Is it the Charlie Brown special, the caroling, or the birth of a baby?

Related Topics: Christmas Carol, Christmas Carols, Christmas, Christmas Story, Angels on Earth, Ptolemy Tompkins, Light, extravagant doghouse decorations, hillside bringing tidings, Birth, Practice, earth returns, Question, manger scene, fir trees

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Advent Day 17: Food and Feasts

Day 17 of Beliefnet's interactive Advent calendar with a focus on the significance of food during the holiday.

Related Topics: Christmas, Christmas Traditions, Advent, Advent Calendar, Food

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Left, Right and Wrong

American political history can be seen as a long, dogged battle over who gets to define sin.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Books, Politics, Sin, Religious Right, American History, History, Public Policy, American Politics, Crime, Public Health, private lives

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The Wages of Choosing an Intolerant Justice

Conservative Christians, who suffered as a religious minority themselves, should remember why we need an independent judiciary.

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The Magic People

If you assume you don't know anybody who believes in magic, take a closer look at your friends and neighbors.

Related Topics: Faiths, Magical, hoodoo, magical people, Magic, magical ideas, magical beliefs, Black Magic, Practice, magical practice, hoodoo practitioners

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Look Who's Talking to God

According to our new survey, just about everyone talks to God--and gets a response. But it rarely happens at church.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Movies, god, voice, person, short lived television show, inside peoples hearts, Worship, Experience, Religion, Religious Landscape, way religion works

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From Theological Tenet to Political Password

Three of the Democratic candidates have already pitched to their audiences some version of the "City on a Hill" speech.

Related Topics: News, Politics, hill, Nation, hill moment, winthrop, shining city, Idea, sermons title, special role, winthrops, campaign trail

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The New Virgins

Christianity has always forbidden premarital sex. But the 1990s were a turning point for the chastity movement in America.

Related Topics: Faiths

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