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Cancer takes a horrible toll on the body, so perhaps we can crack a smile when we find examples of the soul remaining defiantly intact — even if it is the potentially-damned soul of someone who doesn’t believe in such nebulous things? Check out notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens’ love letter to the fire-and-brimstone responses he’s heard…

The high cost of being Jewish — kosher food, synagogue dues, tuition, etc. — has made secular and religious headlines in recent months. It’s not a new problem, but the recession and the Madoff scandal have taken a heavy toll on Jewish institutions, and there’s more talk than ever of the need to reach out to the…

Are you someone who opposes openly gay clergy, if not homosexuality in general, and find that your religious group has become too permissive in recent years? If so, you may be a Lutheran. Or Episcopalian. Or Presbyterian. Perhaps a conservative Jew? Hmmm. To focus on the latest example: Some Lutherans, dismayed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s recent decision…

The investigation of Catholic Church clergy sex abuse has hit a new low/high in Belgium, where secular authorities raided church headquarters earlier this summer: the release of tapes from an April 8 meeting in which retired Cardinal Godfried Danneels advised a victim, now a grown man, to keep quiet so that his childhood abuser and uncle, Bishop Robert…
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