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  • Religious sorority sets up camp at CSU Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:37AMJenna Willis wanted to give women a place to feel comfortable with their morals. So she started Alpha Delta Chi, a national multi-denominational Christian sorority.
  • 2-time Tour champion Laurent Fignon dies at 50 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:16AMLaurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50.
  • Lonely woman seeks companion Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 1:52AMDear Christine, I am a 57-year-old lady looking for a companion. I am very lonely.
  • Comment on Feeble-minded BN by HJ Angus Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:33AMall very relevant points except the most important thing that we must do first. 1.Elect a capable Prime Minister with strong leadership skills to really forge all the races to work towards the nation's progress; based on meritocracy and a needs based assistance programs for all races.
  • San Bernardino pastor behind lawsuit over Prop. 8 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:28AMSAN BERNARDINO - A conservative legal group hoping to force Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend California's gay marriage ban filed suit Monday on behalf of a local minister.
  • Ruth Marcus: Fusion politics at the church picnic Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:00AMGlenn Beck is offering a new form of fusion politics, melding the anti-government, anti-spending, anti-tax fervor of the tea party with the faith-based agenda of the religious right.
  • Feeble-minded BN Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:14PMBy Mariam Mokhtar Three BN ministers were not speaking from a position of strength when they labeled PKR politician Nurul Izzah Anwar a traitor and a sinner for saying in an Indonesian newspaper, that Malaysia’s new, multimillion ringgit submarine is defective. She also highlighted the problems plaguing our navy and expressed doubts about the New [...]
  • Iowa Football Notes: Four freshmen in line to play for Hawkeyes Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:02PMAt least four Iowa freshmen will see significant playing time this year, coach Kirk Ferentz said Tuesday. Linebackers James Morris and Christian Kirksey will at least play on special teams, and C.J. Fiedorowicz will get on the...
  • Politics, religion never mix in this dark comedy Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:40PMSometimes I feel we are all characters in a very dark comedy,but I am at a distinct disadvantage because I do not remember thepast the way everybody else does.
  • Legal group seeks to compel Calif to defend Prop 8 Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:28PMA conservative legal group is trying to force Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend California's gay marriage ban in court. The Pacific Justice Institute petitioned the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento on Monday for... California - Jerry Brown - Same-sex marriage - California Proposition 8 - Attorney general
  • Author shares God’s love through tragedy and triumph Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 7:06PMThe separation from her family was supposed to be temporary.
  • Family, friends devastated after woman dies day after hospital wedding Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 5:30PMThe Holland woman was accidentally hit by a pickup driven by by her brother-in-law.
  • TV Watch: 'Dating in the Dark' photo recap: Virgin territory Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 5:17PM….saving himself for marriage…. ….who can’t drive. Whoa, that was way harsh, Tai. Even harsher: After Lisa asks Brian, “Do you feel that if a girl has had a sexual partner already is disvalued? [sic]” he answers: “We all make mistakes.”
  • 'Dating in the Dark' photo recap: Virgin territory Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 5:12PMBy Annie Barrett Annie Barrett adds ''motivational speaker'' and ''Chippendales dancer'' to our collection of euphemisms for ''unemployed''
  • Nevada 2010 senate race: Harry Reid in dogfight Against Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 5:09PM2004 results: Reid beat Republican Richard Ziser, 61 percent to 35 percent.
  • Nevada 2010 Senate race: Harry Reid in dogfight against Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 4:40PMIn Nevada, incumbent Democrat Harry Reid is facing Republican challenger Sharron Angle, a former member of the Nevada State Assembly and Tea Party favorite for a United States Senate Seat. Reid, who has historically been a safe candidate, is in a tight race against Angle, mostly because of an anti-incumbency mood in voters across the country. Reid is also tied closely to President Obama, whose ...
  • National Thought Leaders Join the Deseret News Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:03PMThe Deseret News, Utah's oldest continually published daily newspaper, today introduced a new Editorial Advisory Board, the first of its kind in a media organization. The advisory board brings together a collection of thought leaders from around the country who will provide insight to the Deseret News.
  • Births, marriages and divorces Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:01PMBirthsAtrium
  • Letters to the Editor: Aug. 25, 2010 Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:32PMHere are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of Aug. 25, 2010.
  • Witnesses recall horror of Plano crash that killed five as manslaughter trial begins Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:29AMThe scene that sunny summer morning was described by witness after witness: horrific, complete carnage, like a bomb had gone off.
  • Church court tries minister who performed same-sex marriages Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:16AMThe lesbian is accused of violating the Presbyterian constitution when gay marriage was legal in California. A lesbian minister, who officiated at more than a dozen same-sex weddings during the brief window gay marriage was legal in California, goes to trial Thursday before a Presbyterian court, charged with violating her denomination's constitution.
  • Dr. Nigro Presents the Two Volumes of Everybody for Everybody Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:01AMTwo Revealing Reads That Will Inspire Profound Reflection—the Product of Years of Learning
  • Hitting the century mark Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:48AMFlorence Wise approaches in her wheelchair. She is radiant and smiling on the eve of her 100th birthday Monday.
  • Christian Living Resources, Bible Study Tools, Jesus Christ Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:11AMDaily briefs of the top Christian news and persecution stories impacting believers around the world. Jim Wallis, president of the left-leaning religious group Sojourners, has acknowledged the group received funding from liberal billionaire George Soros.
  • Sakawa in Benin, 419 in Ghana, Suicide in USA Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 11:12PMIf you have ever regretted doing anything in your life, then you are a perfect specimen for a typical ponzi fraud or any 419 experiment. And if you would do things differently given a second chance, then you are as vulnerable as the victim of any cheap money scam.
  • Presbyterian leaders approve gay clergy policy Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:35PMMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Presbyterian leaders voted Thursday to allow non-celibate gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy, approving the first of two policy changes that could make their church one of the most gay-friendly major Christian denominations in the U.S.
  • Fall semester at UNLV brings mix of optimism, concern Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:44PMUNLV’s campus was abuzz with a mix of excitement and anxiety during the school’s first day of classes Monday, with students buying books and lining up in droves to buy Starbucks coffee before their classes. Many students and professors entered the school year feeling uneasy after state budget cuts slashed the school’s budget by millions of dollars, prompting layoffs and program cancellations.
  • Texas school rejects 4-year-old over lesbian parents Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:20PMA private religious school in Texas has denied admission to the daughter of a lesbian couple who wanted to enroll the child in preschool, citing its "clear teaching of the Christian faith" for the refusal.
  • Bristol Palin to speak in Louisville Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 6:57AMBristol Palin — the teen mother whose turbulent relationship with her son's father has added a soap-opera subplot to her mother Sarah's political career — will speak Sept. 8 on behalf of a home for single mothers in Louisville.
  • A vivacious pop cartoon star springs out of the playbook Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 4:30AMKaty Perry has not been shy about her ambition. She's visible and outre like a walking cartoon.
  • Candidates make pitches on last day before Election Day Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 4:13AMBy now, you've probably seen an ad or two by Rick Scott or Bill McCollum or Jeff Greene or Kendrick Meek.
  • LETTER: Divisiveness and hatred Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 2:08AMDear Editor:
  • A night for breaking fast and barriers Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 1:12AMNearly two weeks into Ramadan, 300 people from various religious and ethnic backgrounds gathered Sunday inside the Crozier-Williams College Center on the campus of Connecticut College to experience "Sharing Ramadan," an event that offered guests a chance to experience the Muslim month of fasting.
  • A brilliant, difficult woman in sharp focus Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 12:23AMMartin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark is a lot like Spark's fiction: It often leaves one guessing. Consider, for instance, three men who played important roles in Spark's life: her husband, Sydney Oswald Spark, 13 years her senior, mentally unstable, and the father of her only son, Robin; Howard Sergeant, poet and editor, with whom she had a passionate
  • New Lutheran Church denomination turns to local pastor Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 11:47PMSTATE COLLEGE — The Rev. Paull Spring's beliefs have endured more than four decades of c
  • Church Calendar (Aug. 21-27) Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:18AMHarris Chapel Baptist Church will host revival services Saturday, Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 22 at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. with the Rev. Neal Hatfield as the guest speaker. Call 828-728-3721 for information.
  • 54% in Finland Favor Marriage Equality, New Poll Says Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:35AMA survey commissioned by YLE indicates a majority of Finns favour a gender neutral law on marriage that would give both gay and hetero couples the same rights. Some 54 percent of those questioned said they supported a change in the law.
  • Weddings at no charge? Tacoma's Life Center says ‘I will’ Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:25AMTacoma’s Life Center is providing free weddings and vow-renewal ceremonies to 17 couples starting today as a show of support for marriage.
  • Texas school rejects lesbian couple's daughter Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:20AMKDFW-TV reported that Jill and Trace Harrison were married in 2006 in Canada, where same-sex marriage was legalized in July 2005. Last month the couple filled out admission forms to enroll their 4-year-old daughter, Olivia, into St. Vincent's Episcopal School.
  • School Rejects Lesbian Couple's Daughter Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:12AMA Texas couple is upset that their daughter was denied admission to a private school. The school says it does not agree with their lesbian lifestyle and therefore the school would not be a good fit her because it does not back her own personal values taught at home.
  • In Dick Kelly, Palm Desert loses friend, leader and councilman Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 7:03AMPalm Desert City Councilman Dick Kelly, who died Friday after battling bladder cancer, will be remembered by many as a man who tried to do what was right — and what was best for Palm Desert and the Coachella Valley.
  • Vicar intends to marry toy boy male model, defying church gay sex rule Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 2:58AMA Church of England vicar has stunned his flock by revealing plans to marry a toy boy male model who is 40 years his junior.
  • Adultery is a sin; listen to Jesus' teachings Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 2:45AMThen each went to his own home. But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appears again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the law ...
  • Divorce: Threatening of spiritual harm illegal - former MP Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 2:11AMIt was a mistake for the Church’s pro-vicar to talk about sin in relation to how a person would vote on divorce because it is illegal for anyone to threaten spiritual harm, according to former Labour Justice Minister Joe Brincat.
  • Cool Designs in Woodbury Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:49AMThe designs of York Street Studio in Woodbury are somehow both austere and luxurious.
  • BET ‘Sunday Best’ Winner Y’Anna Crawley’s Debut Album Set for Aug 24 Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:12AM*BET’s Sunday’s Best winner Y’Anna Crawley is ready to release her debut album “The Promise” on Aug. 24 with Imago Dei Music Group. She explained that working on her album has been a huge blessing. “With everything that I’ve gone through, all my ups and downs, with people talking about me and saying that I [...]
  • Atlanta Churches in Foreclosure Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:12AM*The foreclosure crisis has touched everyone, including the church. A predominantly African American church in Atlanta is speaking out about its foreclosure, saying the bank is not doing enough to help. Pastor Dexter Johnson, Higher Ground Empowerment Center leader, has been given until Aug. 31 to pay up or leave the grounds. He says the [...]
  • Barbie Gets Ordained Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:12AM*With her careers as veterinarian, astronaut and U.S. president behind her, Barbie has at last found her true calling: as a second-career Episcopal priest, reports the Religion News Service.The 11.5-inch-tall fictional graduate of Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., has donned a cassock and surplice and is rector at St. Barbara’s-by-the-Sea in [...]
  • S.C.’s 24-hour Wait Period Before Abortion Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:11AM*CBN.com reports: South Carolina now requires a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, thanks to a new law signed Wednesday by the governor. Gov. Mark Sanford signed the measure over the objections of critics who say it will burden women. “Our founding fathers gave us life, liberty. and the pursuit of happiness,” Sanford told the Spartan [...]
  • Spiritual Memoirs Making Comeback Due to `Eat, Pray, Love’ Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:11AM*Believers have been writing about their spiritual journeys ever since St. Augustine invented the autobiography 16 centuries ago. Today, spiritual memoirs are enjoying a popular resurrection.Exhibit A is Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love,” which describes Gilbert’s midlife meltdown and her subsequent yearlong global quest for food, salvation and sex. Published in 2006, the book has [...]