A Buffalo, N.Y., church is focusing on a non-traditional calling: business education. However, Pastor Stephen Andzel at New Creation Fellowship says he sees no reason instruction should be limited to spiritual topics. Churches, he says, are called to teach everything, from science to literature. “And even business,” writes Maryellen Tighe for the Buffalo News newspaper.…

“The peace of a bucolic East Anglian village has been shattered by a fierce campaign by residents to oust their female vicar,” reports Jonathan Wynne-Jones, a religious affairs correspondent for the Telegraph, a British daily newspaper. To the outside world, the part-time assignment of Rev. Lorna Smith as Anglican priest at the 12th century St. Nicholas Church in Trillingham, would…

“In case you missed the debate in Iowa last night, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was asked if she would be submissive to her husband,” observes Sarah Pulliam Bailey on the website GetReligion. “The question wasn’t completely out of left field,” commented Bailey, “since Bachmann mentioned it at a gathering in 2006 when she said she…

“Here we go again,” writes Beliefnet’s Jay Sekulow. “An atheist organization files a federal lawsuit. They are offended. This time the target: a Cross placed at the World Trace Center Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero. It is unbelievable that these lawsuits keep coming. As you may recall, lawsuits by atheist organizations have failed repeatedly…

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