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By Chris A. Courogen Religion News Service Nickel Mines, Pa. – Things seem normal as you drive the narrow country roads that wind through southern Lancaster County. The tobacco hangs drying in barns, the way it has for generations. Horse-drawn mowers are cutting hay, and buggies are still spreading road apples. If you didn’t know…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) As many as six Episcopal bishops and more than 200 Episcopal congregations have taken a first step toward forming a new alternative to the Episcopal Church that will unite conservatives irked by the church’s liberal drift. Meeting in Pittsburgh last week (Sept. 25-28), the Common Cause Council of…

Associated Press – October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court returned to work Monday by sidestepping two church-state cases that social conservatives had hoped the justices would use to chart a rightward course. The justices decided not to consider a challenge by religious groups to a New York law requiring health plans to cover…

Associated Press – October 1, 2007 NEW YORK – Some of the most politically influential conservative Christians in the U.S., alarmed by the prospect of a Republican presidential nominee who supports abortion rights, are considering backing a third-party candidate. More than 40 Christian conservatives attended a meeting Saturday in Salt Lake City to discuss the…
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