It's very difficult for many contemporary Christians to recognize how much we have been shaped by the consumer culture in which we live--it is in the air we breathe and the water (or coffee) we drink.
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Culture
Six in 10 American "Millennials" - those born between 1980 and 1991 - see nothing wrong with two people of the same gender getting married. But men, African-Americans and Southerners are least comfortable among their peers with same-sex marriage, and for the most part Christian Millennials oppose it.
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The leader of an Satanic church firmly planted in the Bible Belt has raised eyebrows by renting a theater in the Oklahoma City Civic Center for a ritual exorcism of God.
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The leader of an Satanic church firmly planted in the Bible Belt has raised eyebrows by renting a theater in the Oklahoma City Civic Center for a ritual exorcism of God.Read More
Christian
The King's College surprised many higher education observers by choosing Dinesh D'Souza, widely identified as a Roman Catholic, as president of the New York City school. Read More
The King's College surprised many higher education observers by choosing Dinesh D'Souza, widely identified as a Roman Catholic, as president of the New York City school. Read More
National
Nearly one in five Americans incorrectly say President Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% last year, according to a Pew Research Center poll released today.
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Culture
As a working mother who lives in the Washington-metro area, I admit that I'm dreading Bravo's new program The Real Housewives of D.C. (begins August 5). I took some comfort in the Washington Post's scathing advance review of it:
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Culture
In the black community, the institution of marriage is essentially dead. While marriage in Western developed nations is declining in general, the black community and black women are being disproportionately affected. Unless marriage and family issues receive a higher priority, tackling other major problems, like declining high school graduation rates, will be like treading water in the Mississippi River 10 feet above a strong undercurrent.
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Education
Texas schools need to hire more black and Hispanic teachers, especially as the enrollment of minority students continues to rise, experts said.
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Culture
UPDATE, 5:20 PM: The Washington Post Co. has now officially announced the sale of Newsweek to Sidney Harman.
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Culture
Language that once prohibited property ownership based on race remains in hundreds -- if not thousands -- of homeowner covenants, even though such restrictions have been illegal since 1968, because of the difficult process to remove it, historians and other experts say.
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Former White House Social Secretary and Washington's Best-Dressed Woman Desiree Rogers spoke to Chicago's FOX news about what she's been up to lately, including her new job. Read More
Former White House Social Secretary and Washington's Best-Dressed Woman Desiree Rogers spoke to Chicago's FOX news about what she's been up to lately, including her new job. Read More
Entertainment
The last time Mel Gibson found himself in the middle of a media firestorm -- i.e. when he made sexist and antisemitic comments during his D.U.I. arrest in Malibu -- Christian leaders rushed to his defense.
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Entertainment
Beauty queen Carrie Prejean and NFL quarterback Kyle Boller married in a lavish ceremony in San Diego Friday, E! Online reported.
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Culture
More than 350 bills have been introduced in state legislatures this year to restrict abortion. At least two dozen new laws have passed. In many states, the fierce debate over abortion now centers directly on the fetus.
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Culture
The role of fathers may be changing, but it's no less essential.
Last Sunday morning, my daughter Penny helped me make breakfast for her dad. He likes it simple: coffee, OJ, a bowl of cereal with raisins. We assembled it all on a tray, complete with the newspaper and a card: "Happy Father's Day I love my dad" in 4-year old block letters. While I was retrieving her little brother, Penny snuck away and climbed into bed with her dad and shouted, "Wake up! I made you breakfast in bed!"
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Opinion
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The Obama administration is actively changing the cultural norms of our country.
Equally troubling, the nation's chief executive is doing so at the expense of our most vulnerable - the rising ranks of fatherless children. I'm disappointed President Obama has marred an otherwise noble initiative designed to raise awareness of and offer solutions to father absence with a political tip of the cap to advocates of homosexual parenting.
Culture
Culture
James Carville went off on his CNN colleague Fareed Zakaria for his commentary that President Obama is worrying too much about the oil spill.
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Culture
The minority population in the United States is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the total, advancing an unmistakable trend that could render them the new American majority by midcentury. Read More
The minority population in the United States is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the total, advancing an unmistakable trend that could render them the new American majority by midcentury. Read More
Culture
It is no surprise that charitable giving by the wealthy declined last year. According to a report released today by Giving USA and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, individual giving fell an estimated 0.4% in 2009, to $227.41 billion-a fairly mild drop.
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Culture
One reason why the split between Al and Tipper Gore was surprising was because it ran against many marriage trends in America. Despite the tabloid travails of the rich and famous, the overall divorce rate has fallen since the 1980s.
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Culture
For the first time since Gallup began measuring the "moral acceptability" of homosexuality, a majority of Americans support gay and lesbian relations.
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Culture
A Fargo man will get his ISNOGOD license plate, a letter from
the Department of Transportation director says. Brian Magee's request was initially denied, but following an
appeal, Director Francis Ziegler overturned that decision
Thursday.
Culture
Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites.
Married for 7 months, Hai Nguyen, 37 and her husband John Pope, 37, sit outside their home in Houston, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. They are part of a slowing trend of inter-ethnic marriage.
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African-American
Standing before a room full of fellow African-Americans, Jamila Bey took a deep breath and announced she's come out of the closet.
Members of Kingdom Builders Church of God in Christ in Hanover, Md., worship during a Sunday morning service, where pastor Kenneth Fowlkes says "Humanists are encouraging African Americans to go to hell."
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