Associated Press – September 8, 2008 DOTHAN, Ala. – Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 that calls itself the Peanut…

Associated Press – September 7, 2008 WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was “above my pay grade” to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights. Obama gave his answer last month at a nationally televised religious forum…

By Tim Murphy Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) While Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s staunch evangelical conservatism may appeal to her party’s Christian base, the Alaska governor’s home state ranks among the nation’s least religious. According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Alaskans are less likely to believe in God, pray,…

By Steve Rabey c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) “The Shack,” a novel of horror and healing that was rejected by more than a dozen publishers, has sold more than 2 million copies to become the bestselling religion book of the past year. Author William P. Young, who goes by Paul, says he wasn’t writing…

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