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Which is more important: tithing or paying off my $13,000 credit-card debt?
Fixing your debt or supporting your church? -
NEWSWEEK alumnus Richard Wolffe flags his juicy new book from the campaign trail: "Renegade: The Making of a President," with an excerpt at the DAILY BEAST. He recounts a secret meeting in Chicago with the president's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, at the height of the furor surrounding a series of sermons Wright delivered at Trinity United Church in Chicago:
Obama’s aides feared the worst from Wright’s return...
Barack Obama's Secret Chicago Meeting with Jeremiah Wright -
President Barack Obama spoke at the 164th commencement at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana this weekend. The speech was freighted with political controversy, primarily because Notre Dame is affiliated with the Catholic Church, which uniformly opposes the abortion rights and protections that the president supports. These weeks of tension leading up to the speech held an ironic quality—though Americans of many faiths are opposed to the woman's legal right to choose an abortion, Obama had worked with Catholic churches in his early days as a community organizer in Chicago when, as he said with a laugh, "I was really broke and they fed me."...
President Obama Talks Faith, Makes Nice with Pro-Lifers at Notre Dame Commencement Speech -
Some mega-church pastors are living large and somebody—maybe even the government—should find out if they are ripping off their congregations.
Pulpit Pimps? -
Unlike grandma and grandpa, who built their lives on deep religious faith, Bible study, prayer meetings and consistent church attendance, 11 percent of black Americans say they have no religion at all.
Losing Our Religion? -
Why the hit producer's narrow evangelism may not be doing black people any good
Tyler Perry's Conservative Tent Revival -
BOOK REVIEW: Sex and religion clash in a proxy fight for all the conflict and contradiction of life in the modern American suburb.
'The Abstinence Teacher' -
Not Easily Broken stars Taraji P. Henson and Morris Chestnut, an outwardly successful couple struggling with major bumps in their marriage. T.D. Jakes' new film seeks a convergence of box-office success and divine revelation.
Diary of a Mad Black Preacher -
Sept. 4, 2008 -- Has the religious right changed its mind about teen pregnancy?
For the Bible Tells Me So... -
I like to think my family has maintained the "spirit of the holidays," albeit without the religious underpinnings. And, I know I'm not alone in my observance of America's commercialized pseudo-Christmas, but I do wonder how many others feel the same twinge of guilt about it that I do.
Merry Agnostic Christmas
