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April 2009

April 06, 2009
Passover is almost here, which means Jewish families are preparing once again to taste familiar...

March 2009

March 30, 2009
To hear Tom Hanks describe him, the hero who broke "The Da Vinci Code" is...
March 23, 2009
By age 14, Cassie Griffin had collected a bedroom full of toy frogs, each a...
March 15, 2009
The joke was old, old, old and Rush Limbaugh knew that when -- tongue firmly...
March 09, 2009
Some of the seminarians in the Bible Belt chapel were shaken when Dr. Louis McBurney...
March 02, 2009
The hero is stranded on a dying planet, lonely and yearning for companionship. Then a...

February 2009

February 23, 2009
The upperclassman sat across the cafeteria table from freshman Joe Carter and, in a matter...
February 16, 2009
Welcome to the church-state battlefield, President Barack Obama. Consider this hypothetical landmine: Would it be...
February 09, 2009
Times were hard for the single mother and her 4-year-old son, so she did what...
February 02, 2009
Phyllis Tickle tried to pay close attention to the prayers at the inauguration of President...

January 2009

January 25, 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE: First of two columns on President Barack Obama's inauguration. As Aretha Franklin finished...
January 19, 2009
When it comes to abortion, the vast majority of Americans know what they want and...
January 12, 2009
It was the kind of quote that is catnip for politicos and scribes inside the...
January 05, 2009
After waves of headlines about faith and politics, President-elect Barack Obama was the clear choice...
January 01, 2009
It was hard to ignore the papal bull condemning the slave trade, which was read...

December 2008

December 29, 2008
Merry Christmas. No, honest, as in "the 12 days of" you know what between Dec....
December 22, 2008
EDITOR'S NOTE: Second of two columns on teens and ethics. When pollsters ask Americans the...
December 15, 2008
EDITOR'S NOTE: First of two columns on teens and ethics. Take comfort in this: The...
December 07, 2008
It only takes a few words to call back the memories from 30 years ago,...

November 2008

November 26, 2008
When an Orthodox bishop enters a sanctuary, he is traditionally greeted with the following words...
November 19, 2008
Richard N. Ostling has never gotten used to seeing journalists commit sins of omission and...
November 12, 2008
If you want to cause trouble for American bishops, stick them in a vise between...
November 05, 2008
Reporter Louis Moore didn't know much about the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod when he began covering...

October 2008

October 29, 2008
BERKELEY, Calif. -- The interfaith coalition that formed in the 1990s to lobby for religious...
October 22, 2008
If you could erase one moment from Sen. Barack Obama's White House campaign, which would...
October 15, 2008
NASHVILLE -- Washington correspondent David Brody knew it was a symbolic moment when Democratic Party...
October 08, 2008
These were the sad, sobering conversations that priests have when no one else is listening.Father...
October 01, 2008
The political endorsement was clear, although the words were carefully chosen. New Hampshire Bishop V....

September 2008

September 24, 2008
At the last church she attended before dropping out, Julia Duin was not impressed with...
September 17, 2008
The punch line rocketed around the World Wide Web, inspiring smiles in pews friendly to...
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