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Associated Press – May 16, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO – Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the nation’s most populous state. A conservative group said it would ask California’s Supreme Court to postpone…

Associated Press – May 16, 2008 TRAMOUNG CHRUM, Cambodia – When residents of this poor, Cambodian village need something built, they call on the Lightmans. The Jewish-American family’s latest gift: a mosque. “We never had such a beautiful mosque in our village,” said 81-year-old Leb Sen, a toothless, village elder with a wrinkled face. “The…

By Daniel Burke c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It doesn’t have much of a beat, the kids can’t dance to it, and it’s sung in a dead language. But Gregorian chant seems to be the hottest thing in sacred music right now. Consider the following: — The wildly popular “Halo” videogames use Gregorian chant…

Associated Press Boston – For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are “barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don’t know, sleep with their sisters or something,” Berger says. It’s time that attitude changed, he says. “That was probably never…
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