Lauren Markoe
Lauren Markoe writes for Religion News Service.
Blog Posts by Lauren Markoe
Posted by Lauren Markoe 3 days 12 hours ago
The small stack of envelopes that arrives at Grace Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul, Minn., each day are filled with good will and small bills – ones, fives and tens mostly.The donations...
Posted by Lauren Markoe 6 days 16 hours ago
The Rev. Tom Sherrod loathed to "declare" a couple man and wife.As a stutterer, Sherrod always had problems with hard “c” sounds, and the “c” in “declare” was a doozy. “P” sounds weren’t easy either...
Posted by Lauren Markoe 1 week 3 days ago
After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly identify him as a...
Posted by Lauren Markoe 3 weeks 3 days ago
Speaking at Georgetown University, Rep. Paul Ryan—the chairman of the House Budget Committee and a possible vice-presidential candidate— seemed to seek to quell the debate. He called his budget a...
Posted by Lauren Markoe 4 weeks 4 days ago
Kirk Cameron was once one of Hollywood's babies, the spunky, handsome teenager who starred in the 1980s hit "Growing Pains," and whose picture was taped inside many a schoolgirl's locker.But now,...