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The fact that so many challenges to religion in public schools have been popping up lately is probably a good sign that democracy is alive and well, and that the public care about separation of church and state.
With all of the scandals that have rocked Christian churches lately, it is nice to see that a cluster of them have shifted the focus back toward philanthropy and taken up the cause of HIV awareness and prevention.
If it seems as though the ULC Monastery blog has been discussing the use of Bibles in government-run institutions lately, it is because the practice has been surprisingly ubiquitous.
A prison in the U.S. state of South Carolina is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for banning all books except for the Bible, which the ACLU says is illegal.
Many prospective ministers still have lingering doubts about the legality of online ordination, which still carries a stigma due to the flexibility shown by the internet churches granting the ordination requests.
Civilized and rational people have been given yet another reason to fear religion as a potential source of violence after a man blamed his own faith as the cause of his child abuse.
Good news has arrived for British heathens. At least one pagan religion regained its status within Christendom recently when the United Kingdom announced that it had formally recognized Druidry as an official religion.
The marriage rate among young adults has declined to its lowest level ever in the United States, new census data indicates. Many experts say that weddings should be re-imagined to appeal to modern young people.
The recent debacle over Bishop Eddie Long’s alleged use of church tithes to woo young men has shaken New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to its foundations. In response to the uproar, the Rev. Carlton Pearson, a televangelist, senior minister of Christ Unive
Is a Christian concert on a military base a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment? Religious freedom advocates are upset that an explicitly evangelistic concert will soon come to Fort Bragg.
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