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How much ‘Tebowing’ is too much?
(RNS) Along with politics, it is one of two things we don't talk about at parties: sports and religion.
Football has always been a religion to some. But now, thanks to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, sports and religion have become the topic du jour.
Arguments over Tebow's path to the Hall of Fa...
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Should our bodies become bullets after death?
(RNS) When he dies, Clem Parnell expects his soul to ascend heavenward. He wants his ashes to be loaded into a shotgun shell and blasted at a turkey.
"I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that turkey will see is me screaming at him at about 900 feet per second," says Parnell, 59.
Parnell...
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Tuesday’s Godbytes
CNN offers story on professional Christian Soccer teams, proving once again that God is probably the only entity that can make Americans care about soccer:
"The team was established in 1993 after a 'sports junkie fell in love with God,' Eagles co-founder Brian Davidson says. But if he was going to...
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Championship coach talks God and gridiron
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) After Auburn University's football win over Clemson last season, coach Gene Chizik declared, "It's a God thing."
After the national championship game win over the University of Oregon, he told a national TV audience, "God was with us."
Chizik sees the hand of God working in hi...
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Orthodox basketball play allowed to cover her arms
JERUSALEM (RNS) The international basketball federation has decided to permit an Orthodox Jewish basketball player to cover her arms during competitions in accordance with her religious beliefs.
FIBA made the decision several weeks after point guard Naama Shafir, a member of the Israeli national wom...
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Muslims, FBI search for answers after aborted Oregon terror plot
CORVALLIS, Ore. (RNS) The damage from a fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center early Sunday (Nov. 28) did not amount to much in material loss. But the symbolic wound went far deeper.
Fire was apparently set to the mosque just a day after one of its on-again, off-again members was arrested in con...
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Author finds faith and fanaticism in South’s football god
AUBURN, Ala. (RNS) Chad Gibbs has been on a pigskin pilgrimage throughout the South, searching for spiritual truth in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Gainesville and Fayetteville.
He grew up a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide and switched allegiance to his alma mater -- and the University of Alabama's archr...
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Tuesday’s roundup
A judge sentenced a Tennessee mother of three to 42 months in the clink for taking money and services for five years to battle breast cancer -- which she never had. Filmmaker Oliver Stone angered Jewish groups by seeming to defend Hitler, and also digging up the old Jews-control-the-media trope (he...
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U.S. nun creates impromptu oasis to heal Haitian bodies and souls
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS) Wearing a bright, floral blouse and pink shorts, Mita Jean Louis stares into a mirror, unmindful of the people around her. She is smiling, and someone asks if she's smiling because she sees the reflection of such a beautiful young woman.
The smile vanishes.
"I don't know,...
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Church coach accused of bribing refs
ENOLA, Pa. (RNS) A Pennsylvania church-league basketball coach has been accused of trying to pay a $2,500 bribe to two basketball officials to throw games, state police said.
Michael Kman, 45, of Enola, is the coach for the Our Lady of Lourdes team in the Harrisburg CYO youth league.
Kman is accused...
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