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Humility is what separates saints from the scoundrels

"See how they love one another!" -- Non-Christians describing Christian behavior, as reported by 2nd century writer Tertullian "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi Read More

Faithful should stand up to hate, stand ready to love

This past Feb. 14, the AME Church celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Richard Allen. Allen and many other African-American members of St. George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia staged one of America's oldest protests against racism when they were pulled from their knees at the altar because they refused to stay in the "colored balcony." Read More

Discussion on Jewish connection

A recurring racist trope asserts that the banking and finance industry is controlled and exploited by Jews. The Life-Long Learning Committee at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston's Reform Jewish synogogue, has set out to address that claim head on. Read More

Church, auction house partner

The 140hours online art auction house based in Reno, Nev., has partnered with North Palm Ministry Center, a 500-member North Charleston church to launch Christian Teen Artists, a Web-based community of young Christian artists, art teachers and ministers. Read More

Religion briefs

BOSTON -- Boston College has received a $20 million gift from the co-founder of a Massachusetts supermarket chain and his wife to help train teachers for Roman Catholic schools and universities. Read More

Ex-coach shares message with prisoners

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How faith leaders respond to use and misuse of religion

Robert Wright, in his 2009 book "The Evolution of God," argues that religious attitudes tend to reflect historical circumstances. Read More

Dean preaches while in Siberia

Adoption requires travel, planning, time and expense. When the Very Rev. Peet Dickinson, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, went with wife Jenny to Siberia to adopt second daughter Ellen, it meant two trips, one nearly a month away from the church. Read More

Pondering the question of whether God hates

Who is not unsettled by hearing "God hates"? Can the one true God, whose very self-revelation is love, hate? This is a challenging, soul-stirring, emotion-arousing question, to be sure. Read More

Concerts

The landmark 1971 rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is coming to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center for two 7:30 p.m. performances March 17 and 18. Read More

KKBE and reform

Until the 19th century, there was only one form of Judaism. True, the Sephardic Jews of North African and Spanish origin practiced their religion in particular ways, and Ashkenazy Jews of Eastern European origin had their own habits. Read More

Women Rabbis

KKBE to welcome its first female spiritual leader

Charleston is a place of firsts. It was the first permanent settlement in one of the New World's first Colonies. It fostered the earliest cohesive Jewish community in the South. It was home to two of the four South Carolina men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Read More

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AMSTERDAM -- A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter. Read More

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