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What Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy Teaches Us About the Stigma of Mental Illness
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 9:03am | Type: Blog

To shift the stigma of mental illness the way White did for HIV/AIDS and begin a public conversation the way Jolie has for preventative mastectomy, the mental health movement needs an everyday champion. ...

Vatican Revives its Ancient Patronage of the Arts
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 7:42am | Type: Blog

In a bid to revive its ancient tradition of arts patronage, the Holy See will participate with its own pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, a leading international arts festival. ...

Will the Kermit Gosnell Verdict Change the Abortion Debate?
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 5:09pm | Type: Blog

Even before rogue abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted in Philadelphia on Monday of delivering and then killing late-term infants, abortion opponents were convinced they had a case that could reshape an ab ...

Harold Camping May Be Facing Doomsday, But Not the One He Intended
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 4:59pm | Type: Blog

Two years ago, radio evangelist Harold Camping was predicting the end of the world. Now, longtime aides say his false predictions are likely to result in the end of his California-based Family Radio ministry. ...

The 2013 Sweetlife Festival: At the Intersection of Passion and Purpose
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 6:06pm | Type: Blog

Hopefully Christians can learn from what sweetgreen has accomplished in just four short years to provide a culturally impressive and respected music experience with a delicious and nutritious food experience a ...

Candida Moss Debunks the ‘Myth’ of Christian Persecution
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:50pm | Type: Blog

Too many modern Christians invoke, to lamentable effect, an ancient history of persecution that didn’t exist, Moss argues in her newly published book, 'The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invent ...

DRONE WATCH: Drone Launched From Aircraft Carrier
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:28pm | Type: Blog

The U.S. Navy launched a drone from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The U.S. Navy took a new step in drone warfare this morning. For the first time, a drone was launched ...

NTSB Recommends Lowering Blood Alcohol Threshold for Drivers
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 12:27pm | Type: Blog

The National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend lowering the blood-alcohol content to legally drive from .08 to .05. The National Transportation Safety Board voted to ...

Guatemalans Gain Justice Over ‘Evangelical’ Dictator
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 8:38am | Type: Blog

On May 10, 2013, a Guatemalan court sentenced Rios Montt to 80 years in prison after finding him responsible for deliberate killings by the armed forces of at least 1,771 members of the Maya Ixil population du ...

DRONE WATCH: New Pakistan PM Questions Drone Attacks
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 11:14am | Type: Blog

The newly elected prime minister of Pakistan considers drone attacks a challenge to sovereignty. Nawaz Sharif, the newly elected prime minister of Pakistan told reporters yester ...

Canterbury Cathedral Says It’s Not Closing Its Doors
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 5:46pm | Type: Blog

England’s best-known cathedral and mother church of the 77 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion will stay open to the public despite the fact that two-thirds of the historic building is in urgent need o ...

Catholic Population Surges Across the Global South
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 4:57pm | Type: Blog

VATICAN CITY — Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday, signaling a shift of the church’s center of ...

Washington National Cathedral Wins $100,000 in Preservation Funds
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 4:54pm | Type: Blog

The Washington National Cathedral, still recovering from a rare 2011 East Coast earthquake, has won $100,000 in preservation funding after being the top vote-getter in the “Partners in Preservation” campaign. ...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Burial Angers Va. Muslims
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 2:02pm | Type: Blog

Officials and local residents of a rural Virginia county say they’re surprised and angered that the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a local cemetery. ...

Hugging Bono, Engaging Critics, and Wishing 'The Frontman' a Happy Birthday
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 12:44pm | Type: Blog

After the gig, I was that 17-year-old hardcore fan who waited dutifully in the Detroit winter weather ...

Ariel Castro: 'I Am a Sexual Predator. I Need Help.'
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 12:16pm | Type: Blog

We lie to ourselves if we imagine that our sin is no less ugly in the eyes of God than the worst imaginable. Is my, or your sin, really so different? Like everyone else I would gu ...

Gun Control Advocates Target Senators
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 11:43am | Type: Blog

Gun control advocates are targeting key senators with advertisements and protests to change their minds on background checks. Gun control advocates are escalating their campaign t ...

If Cheerleaders Don’t Convert You, Chuck Norris Will
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 4:36pm | Type: Blog

Texas high school cheerleaders recently won a local lawsuit which allows them to continue to paint Bible verse on the large butcher paper banners the football players burst through when storming the field. Not ...

Christians: It's NOT a Sin to Change Your Beliefs
Originally Posted: 05/13/2013 - 9:09am | Type: Blog

But theology — our study and beliefs about God — should be a natural process involving change instead of avoiding it. Our God is too big and too wonderful to completely understand by the time we graduate high ...

Illuminated
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mass in Las Choapas, Mexico On my knees I beg forgiveness for my greed— and for starving m ...

To Have and to Hold (and to Serve Six)
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. When wedding bells ring, don't forget the jello. JUNE IS A special month, particularly for ...

'Greater Works Than Mine'
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

in our discernment. [ JUNE 9 ] ‘I Say to You, Rise!’ 1 Kings 17:8-24; Psalm 30; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 THE SOUVENIR MOST kids brought back from English seaside resorts was a “stick ...

With Piercing Wit and Deep Affection
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Jason Byassee When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Suprising Places, Even the Church. Jericho Books ...

Paved with Good Intentions
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Gareth Higgins The beginning of wisdom proposed in the best documentaries is simply this: telling the truth, to ourselves and others, as ...

Love, Race, and History
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Thrall , which deals with images of interracial relationships from the 17th century to the present, ...

It's Hip to be Plain
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Valerie Weaver-Zercher Who knew the Amish would become such a center of pop-cultural attention? ONE SUNDAY EV ...

No Room at the Inn
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:43am | Type: Magazine Article

Dawn Araujo Cincinnati's faith leaders cross denominational lines to standup to a corporate bully. REV. ...

Mother Jesus
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

be the way he is glorified (chapter 17)? In a narrative where down is up, and ordinary things like ...

The Pope We've Been Waiting For?
Originally Posted: 05/24/2013 - 1:10pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger To have the "poor one" at the center of the Catholic faith is right and just. I W ...

Take a Stand
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Curt Devine 8 ways to stand against human trafficking. PRAY for freedom for the 27 million people enslave ...

Inspired by Faith
Originally Posted: 06/10/2013 - 9:38am | Type: Magazine Article

Curt Devine "I never imagined humanity could be stripped from a person like that." KRISTIN HART pla ...

Enslaved at the Border
Originally Posted: 05/24/2013 - 1:11pm | Type: Magazine Article

Curt Devine When Mexican emigration and U.S. slavery intertwine. MARTA AND LUISA had always fantasized about ...

The Man in Row 26
Originally Posted: 05/24/2013 - 11:17am | Type: Magazine Article

Lynne Hybels How small my world gets when I'm not paying attention. OUR PLANE SITS at the gate in Brusse ...

From the Archives: June-July 1974
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Edith Black The Mark of True Faith COMING TO know Christ can be likened to culture shock, when all the old eg ...

'Bring Our War Dollars Home'
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Candice Quinn Local governments push for Pentagon spending cuts. YEAR AFTER YEAR, more than 50 percent of the ...

Loving Like Christ
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Thanks be to God for the life of Gordon Cosby. GORDON COSBY was perhaps the most Christian human b ...

A Mother's Love
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 4:18pm | Type: Blog

Yesterday Kay Stewart shared this poem at the cemetery as we laid to rest the ashes of her first-born daughter Katherine (“Katie”). Yesterday Kay Stewart shared this at the c ...

Three Popes at Vatican as Francis Welcomes Head of Egypt’s Copts
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 4:11pm | Type: Blog

Pope Francis on Friday met with Pope Tawadros II, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, an encounter that brought the number of popes within the Vatican walls to three this week. ...

Left Behind: Families Struggle to Navigate Life After Suicide
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 3:44pm | Type: Blog

in 1986, when a car hit him on the way to school. Kourt died about 10 years later, at age 17, killing ...

A Mother’s Day for Peace in our Cities
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 3:24pm | Type: Blog

when she lost her son to gun violence, and the Mother’s Day walk marks its 17 th  year this Sunday. ...

DRONE WATCH: NPR Interviews Former Drone Pilot
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 2:45pm | Type: Blog

NPR interview with a former Air Force drone pilot. NPR ran a story today with an interview of a former Air Force drone pilot. He describes some of his experiences, including a d ...

DRONE WATCH: Drone Strikes in Pakistan Ruled Illegal
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 11:18am | Type: Blog

A Pakistani court has ruled that U.S. drone strikes in that country are illegal. A Pakistani court has ruled that U.S. drone strikes in that country are illegal. The case was filed on behalf of the families of victims killed in a March 17, 2011 ...

Mothers Day: The Most Painful Holiday of the Year
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 10:22am | Type: Blog

In an effort to praise and empower marriage, healthy parenting, families, and the sanctity of life, Christian subculture often mistakenly and unintentionally alienates those around us — especially women, ...

The Problem of Poverty in 'The Great Gatsby'
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 10:30am | Type: Blog

Distilled to its core, The Great Gatsby is a story of poorness from the lens of richness, a rags-to-riches story where we only get to see the riches. The Great Gatsby  doesn’ ...

Redefining Faith
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 9:05am | Type: Blog

that says, “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17), and again, “For ...

'Girl Rising:' Changing the World, One Story at a Time
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 8:48am | Type: Blog

Through the vivid accounts of nine girls from the developing world — Cambodia, Nepal, Peru, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Haiti, and India — and their valiant struggles for the right to be educat ...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Buried in Undisclosed Location
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 8:33am | Type: Blog

An undisclosed community on Wednesday accepted the body of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which is now “entombed,” according to police in Worcester, Mass. An undisclose ...

Reflections Along the Way of Terminal Illness
Originally Posted: 05/09/2013 - 1:11pm | Type: Blog

“IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING” was written the day we learned that Katie’s incurable Leiomyosarcoma had taken a turn for the worse. In memory of Katherine (“Katie”) Elizabeth Slaikeu Nolan. ...

U.S. Anti-Abortion Leaders Join Rome’s March for Life
Originally Posted: 05/09/2013 - 9:20am | Type: Blog

American anti-abortion leaders will be in Rome on Sunday to participate in Italy’s third March for Life and lend their expertise to the nation’s small anti-abortion movement as it tries to learn from its Ameri ...

‘What Is Going On with Men?’ TEDx Speaker Urges Fellow Men to Speak Out Against Sexual Abuse
Originally Posted: 05/08/2013 - 4:23pm | Type: Blog

Who is missing from the slew of headlines this week on kidnappings, gender-based violence, and victims' paths to healing? The perpetrators themselves — which is why this TEDx video is a must-see. ...