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Southerners have been debating it for years: is mustard based superior to catsup based? (of course not) Is vinegar based the grandest of them all? (clearly, no)
That's right - we're talking about barbecue. And not your silly Northeast "barbecue" (if you're just cooking burgers, ladies and gentlemen,...
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Poll finds evangelicals stand apart on evolution, climate change
WASHINGTON (RNS) White evangelicals and Tea Party members are less likely to believe in evolution and climate change than most Americans, a finding that could pose a particular problem for Republican presidential hopefuls.
A new poll released Thursday (Sept. 22) also showed that a majority of Americ...
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Atheists press to ban creationism from U.K. schools
LONDON (RNS) A group of 30 leading scientists, including a Nobel laureate and a prominent atheist professor, are pressing the British government to ban all teaching of creationism in the nation's publicly funded schools.
The scientists delivered a petition to the coalition government of Prime Minist...
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Wednesday Godbytes
Christian blogger Chad Estes wonders how Jesus would evangelize on college campuses. Apparently, megaphones are out:
"I watched a ten minute video today titled 'Caring for the Lost Students of Vanderbilt University.'
It was the day of a big football game and all the frat houses on campus there in N...
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German court says Catholic hospital must rehire divorced doctor
BERLIN (RNS) A divorced doctor fired from his job at a Catholic hospital because he married another woman should be reinstated, a German court ruled Thursday (Sept. 8).
The ruling by Germany's highest labor court means that church organizations may fire someone if they are found not living up to chu...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
Security forces killed at least seven people in Syria as they emerged from a mosque after prayers marking the end of Ramadan, according to activists.
The sculptor of the controversial statue of the late Pope John Paul II that now stands at Rome's main train station says he's open to making minor cha...
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`King Arthur’ fights the law, and the law wins
LONDON (RNS) A self-styled druid who likens himself to a king in ancient Britain has lost his bid to rebury a set of prehistoric human remains at a sacred pagan burial site.
John Timothy Rothwell -- who changed his name to King Arthur Pendragon in court documents -- lost his court battle to win cust...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
Pope Benedict XVI concluded a "glitch-marred" World Youth Day in Spain on Sunday, after searing heat and thunderstorms played havoc with the weekend's schedule, according to the AP. The next WYD will be in Brazil in 2013, the Vatican announced.
Church attendance among white Americans who did not go...
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Ramadan treat dates back to Prophet Muhammad
(RNS) Brown, sticky, and wrinkly, dates seem a sad or unremarkable fruit. But every Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that began on Monday (Aug. 1), dates take on tremendous religious significance for the faith's 1.6 billion followers.
Throughout the world, Muslims will break Ramadan's required daytim...
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