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Have we become too sensitive?

When Supreme Court justice split 5-4 on this partial abortion procedure, it widened the split among groups of anti-abortionists in the evangelical movement. At the same time, pro-choice advocates worried that the courts could overturn Roe v Wade have given Planned Parenthood a serious bump in direct-mail and online giving.
Are we a decade or more from any changes in Roe v. Wade?

As for selling marijuana, Doug Cobb said he believes that is not inherently dangerous.
"Sales are being made and trades being made constantly on university campuses," Cobb said. "If it was such a danger, would kids like my son trade in it? No."
Maybe he should read this.

"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter," Rutka Laskier wrote in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. "I'm turning into an animal waiting to die."

"I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right, regardless of what the world thought," Clinton said during a forum where the three leading Democratic presidential candidates talked about faith and values."

We see them all the time alongside the road. It might start out as a simple cross. Usually there are flowers nearby. Sometimes candles. A sign of respect or an eyesore?

How far should state-supported colleges and universities go under the heading of religious accomodation? I think this college president puts it in good context here, in relation to a ritual foot bath for Muslim students: It’s a simple matter of extending “hospitality” to newcomers ... no different than providing a fish option in the college cafeteria for Christian students during Lent.

If you want to leave a faith, why would you care that your name was still on a roll somewhere? Anyway, you've got options to flee the flock.

Here's a look inside the Billy Graham Library. Here's another look.

"When we speak the truth without love, it leads to a cold-hearted legalism that our world has come to say is the caricature of the Christian, and I reject that," said Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, holding its annual meeting in San Antonio this week. At the same time, Page said, another danger exists in "a cold-hearted liberalism.

"God wants balance," he said. "He wants us to speak the truth in love."

Among issues: The latest controversy centers on speaking in tongues, a Pentecostal practice that is spreading across denominational lines.

Also, a Baptist pastor also proposes a feasibility study into developing a national database of Southern Baptist ministers who have been "credibly accused of, personally confessed to, or legally been convicted of sexual harassment or abuse."

CAIRO, June 11 -- First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties. Then came the urine fatwa. It said that drinking the urine of the Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing.

For the past few weeks, the breast-feeding and urine fatwas have proved a source of national embarrassment in Egypt, not least because they were issued by representatives of the highest religious authorities in the land.
For many Muslims, fatwas, or religious edicts, are the bridge between the principles of their faith and modern life.

Who should tell the news first, the newspaper or the church?

He said he wanted to expose his students to different religious views. Was this the way to do it? Or is the school making much ado about nothing?

Husband Billy Graham and family are near.

UPDATE: The coffins are made of birch plywood and lined with a foam mattress pad covered with fabric. Brass handles are on the sides, while a cross adorns the top. The price of this, Ruth Graham's coffin: $215.

She was 87, wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Slideshow.

This is why you have to be a parent, and not friend, first.

How did we get here -- was it arrogance on the DA's part or a well-intententioned effort that quickly got out of hand to make sure that justice was served?

VATICAN CITY -- Got road rage? The Vatican on Tuesday issued a set of "Ten Commandments" for drivers, telling motorists to be charitable to others on the highways, to refrain from drinking and driving, and to pray you make it before you even buckle up.

Or is it true that most Americans just don't care about what happens in other people's homes?

I'm surprised this got through -- because nothing is easy when the topic involves what some call "chemical abortions."