"It's part of the American character to go out and help people," said Clifford Putney, assistant professor of American religious history at Bentley University. "We go (out) saying we have all these great ideas and (people abroad) would be better off following them."
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The Contraceptive Mandate
I guess I can understand why the Obama Administration decided to stay the collision course with the Catholic Church and not make it easier for employers to obtain an exemption on religious grounds from the contraception coverage mandated by the health care reform act. Not only would walking back the mandate have given the liberal base of the Democratic Party more heartburn in an election year, but also: Why let any old employer that calls itself Catholic decline to cover medical products that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women themselves use?
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As missionary movement turns 200, questions for the future
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Friday’s Religion News Roundup: God talk, unlucky cats and evangelical insecurity
Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul talk about the role of God in their Oval Office. A cat named Moody has an unlucky encounter with a moody Texas pastor. And is evangelical squemishness about Mormons really about insecurity?
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Bible League International is distributing thumbnail-sized microchips that contain entire theological libraries to Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.
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