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Learning faith lifelong effort

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Editor's note: The Post and Courier wanted to learn about how religion is learned. Leaders in the local faith community have been invited to write essays concerning the way traditions are handed down, and the challenges and benefits of a religious education.
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Notes & Events

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Author releases burdens

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sheila Walsh has been a successful Christian recording artist, author and speaker for decades. She's been the co-host of "The 700 Club," and these days, as a member of Women of Faith, she speaks to half a million women every year.
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Religion Briefs

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Catholic revisions irk Jewish leaders
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Overcoming odds

Sunday, June 28, 2009
It was a simple Christmas portrait from a Wal-Mart photo studio. Amanda Altenburg, 18, smiled with her 2-month-old son, Trey, who was wearing too-big "Baby's First Christmas" pajamas and a hat that made his ears stick out.
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Parishioners connect on Web

Sunday, June 28, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS — Eyes roll when Rabbi Hayim Herring tells fellow clergy they should spend an hour a day on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Listeners at his seminars exchange smirks when he says blogging should be mandatory.
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Spirit leads children to learning

Sunday, June 21, 2009
Editor's note: The Post and Courier wanted to learn about how religion is learned. Leaders in the local faith community have been invited to write essays concerning the way traditions are handed down, and the challenges and benefits of a religious education.
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Dads' helpful words

Sunday, June 21, 2009
My dad taught me that no one person has all the answers. In that light, I decided to ask some of my favorite authors and therapists what they learned from their dads. Here's what they told me. "My father taught me to be a man of my word. He lived by example.
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Honor your father

Sunday, June 21, 2009
A 13-year-old English boy won't be celebrating Father's Day this year, after all. He had been told by a 15-year-old girl that he was the father of her infant, Maisie. A DNA test proved otherwise. The teen mom was only guessing that the 13-year-old was Maisie's dad.
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Meeting works to free 7 imprisoned Baha'is

Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Baha'i Faith, a monotheistic religion established by Bah 'u'll h in 19th-century Persia, counts among its contemporary numbers an estimated 5 million to 6 million around the world in more than 200 countries and territories, with a growing population in the U.S. drawn to its message of the spiritual unity of all humankind.
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Leaving a legacy

Sunday, June 21, 2009
LATHROP, Mo. — Hardly a day went by that the little boy didn't talk about his church. The one he would build one day on a hill on his grandpa's land near here, about 40 miles north of Kansas City, Mo. It would have a big cross and a church bell.
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Notes & Events

Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Church looks out for Earth

Sunday, June 14, 2009
They don't buy Styrofoam. They recycle religiously. Even their Vacation Bible School has become environmentally friendly. First Christian Church in West Ashley is going green.
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Religion Briefs

Sunday, June 14, 2009
Popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has banned Scientology's more vocal friends and foes from editing articles about the religion, a move that worries some in the Internet community.
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Movement rounding up faithful

Sunday, June 14, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. — Yippee-ki-yay, praise the Lord and pass the feed bucket. The Cowboy Church — bringing Jesus to rodeo riders, barrel racers, ranchers, farmers and Western wannabes — is spreading across the Southeast in a growing effort to bring religion to those who don't much care for church.
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