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(Washington Post) Romney scrambles to fend off Gingrich in South Carolina
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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich exhorted conservatives to rally behind his ascendant candidacy as he bid for an upset victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who only a week ago appeared to be on an easy march to the Republican presidential n... (original story)
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(AP) Church Affiliates Get Birth-Control Extension
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In an election-year decision certain to disappoint religious conservatives, the Obama administration announced Friday that church-affiliated institutions will get only one additional year to meet a new rule to cover birth control free of charge. Friday's announcement by Health and Human Services Se... (original story)
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(First Things on the Square Blog) Russell Saltzman—What a Young Wife Ought to Know
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[In her 1901 book] Dr. [Emma F. Angell] Drake gets in your face. “The wife has a right to expect that the man she marries shall be as pure as herself, and she has a right to know it.” And if she cannot learn this for a certainty, then “as she values her happiness, let her take no step further.... (original story)
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Local Newspaper Editorial—Fix Medicaid failures STAT
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No wonder the Medicaid system has so many critics in South Carolina. During the year that ended September 2010, about $490 million in public money was paid in error by the state. The program intended to help the neediest was apparently helping others, too. Meanwhile, some of the people who needed h... (original story)
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Hitler Revisioned: A Strange Way of Demonizing One's Opponents
Posted from A Baptist Perspective 6 days ago
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Adolf Hitler seems to be making a political comeback of sorts: in the past several years, conservative politicians, media personalities and Baptists have increasingly invoked the Führer’s name in denouncing their opponents. In 2009, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Et... (original story)
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(NY Times Motherlode Blog) Parental Quandary Considered: Lying to the In-Laws About Church
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S. admits it. She and her husband have been lying to her in-laws about going to church. I suggested they were fibbing, but whatever you call it, the truth remains: it’s so much easier to pretend, on the phone to her husband’s minister father and his wife, that the religion S. and her husband bot... (original story)
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([London] Times) Stuart Weir—God and the Olympics
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In 1 Corinthians, Paul calls attention to the vigorous training of the athlete. The Christian is challenged to follow the example of the athlete and to strive for the crown which lasts: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get th... (original story)
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Mark Oppenheimer—Many Evangelicals See Something to Admire in Candidates’ Broods
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From the beginning of Christian history until the 19th century, the teaching held that contraception was sinful, says Allan Carlson, the author of “Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973.” “ ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth’ — until the 1920s, all... (original story)
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([London] Times) Churchwardens quit in row with rector
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Four churchwardens have resigned from a small rural parish in Kent in a long-running saga in which the diocesan bishop was forced to intervene. In their extraordinary joint letter of resignation the four churchwardens accuse their rector, Dr David Attwood, of “poor personal relationships with sev... (original story)
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(Chicago Tribune) Roman Catholic priest leaves his post for the sake of love
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Like many Roman Catholic men who feel called to the priesthood, the Rev. Jim Hearne wrestled with whether ordination was right for him. The youngest of seven in an Irish Catholic family, he saw the joy of family life firsthand and never could quite extinguish the desire to one day have children of ... (original story)
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