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    Religion

    Published: 02/7/10

    Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score

    By  David Gibson

    Who'd have guessed that Focus on the Family would have so much in common with ManCrunch? The latter is the gay dating service that had its Super Bowl spot rejected by CBS, while Focus on the Family is the flagship political lobby of the Christian right that has been generating buzz for weeks over ...

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    Published: 02/5/10

    Laughter, Self-Discovery, and a Transatlantic, Nine-Hour Haredi Wedding

    By  Rachel Leavitt
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    Many say the years following high school, often spent at college, define who you are -- the lectures attended and ditched, things remembered and forgotten, the choices, mistakes and lessons that take us on a whirlwind journey and shape us into something like adults. The different paths that lay ...

    Published: 02/5/10

    Is the Resurrection Funny? One Church Has a Super Bowl Bet on It

    By  David Gibson
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    Tim Tebow vs. ManCrunch has become the dominant Super Bowl story line in the run-up to Sunday's championship game. The decision by CBS to broadcast the pro-life story of Tebow's birth vs. the decision to bar ManCrunch's gay dating service spot (as the network has done with other gay-themed ...

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    Published: 02/4/10

    The Power of the Prayer Breakfast

    By  Annie Groer
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    If there is one place on the planet where the philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark "Argentine Soulmate" Sanford, can go knowing he'll be accepted, if not altogether forgiven for grievous sins of arrogance and lust, it is the National Prayer Breakfast. So along with 3,000 other people -- including ...

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    Published: 02/4/10

    The (Prayer) Breakfast Club: Obama Does the Lion's Den Again

    By  David Gibson
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    President Obama's address at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday was a given -- the chief executive has been the main speaker since the event began in 1953. But rarely has so much been riding on what in recent years has seemed like a feel-good function for conservative Christians and a chance ...

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    Published: 02/4/10

    Baptist Denomination Separates Itself From 'American Baptists' Arrested in Haiti

    By  Jeffrey Weiss

    A U.S. denomination has become collateral damage in the ongoing horrible mess in Haiti. If you've been paying any attention at all, you surely know about the report of American missionaries arrested for trying to remove Haitian kids from the country without going through proper procedures. ...

    Published: 02/1/10

    Gayle Haggard: Devoted or Delusional?

    By  Helena Andrews
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    Watching Gayle Haggard, the devoted wife of former evangelist mega star and admitted sexual immoralist Ted Haggard, on ABC's The View this morning I couldn't help but think one thing, Man this lady's got some guts! Or as we might put it around here at WomanUp, some serious big girl panties. There ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    The Super Bowl as Culture-War Battleground

    By  Jeffrey Weiss
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    So here's American culture in 2010: A controversy about whether TV ads shown during the Super Bowl are "fair." Is that an argument that anybody really wants to start? The ads in question are about abortion -- starring just-former college football star Tim Tebow -- and gay dating -- for a company ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    Scott Brown's Election Holds The Key to GOP's Comeback in the Northeast

    By  Bonnie Erbe'
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    Is Scott Brown's Senate election an omen of the possible resurgence of the moderate Northeastern Republican?Legions of disaffected moderates are hoping so. On Sunday, the incoming senator told ABC's Barbara Walters he's pro-choice, a philosophy driven out of what famed and beloved Republican ...

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    Published: 01/29/10

    Mother Teresa: Should a Saint Get Postal Service's Stamp of Approval?

    By  David Gibson
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    If anything qualifies as a no-brainer, it would seem to be honoring Mother Teresa of Calcutta on a stamp. Not really the biggest laurel the late Nobel Prize winner and sure-fire saint will ever merit, but nothing to sniff at -- especially given the price of a stamp these days. But of course, you ...

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