Church for dogs
LOS ANGELES When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottome...
 5.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 71.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 71.0 Evangelists are targeting New England
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) It s hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway. Until this new church opened last month, its 19th-century ...
7.5K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 112.0 Hate-crimes ploy undermines free speech
What does a hate-crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq? Nothing, except the National Defense Authorization Act, which will soon win final passage in Congress, also contains the Matthew Shepard and James By...
3.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 71.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 71.0 Q&A: Michael Buble
NEW YORK Michael Buble recently received a cassette tape of his first performance ever, but it didn t bring back pleasant memories. But even though the 34-year-old went through an awkward stage as a performer in his teens, he was convinced that sin...
3.3K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 71.0 The Genesis of R. Crumb
LOS ANGELES His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time. Which, come to think of it, may have made Crumb the perfect ...
6.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 71.0 Obama, is this America?
In the last weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed into law such unbounded expansions of the FBI s domestic surveillance powers that I was stunned. Years ago, I had often ...
3.2K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 71.0 Globalism versus Americanism
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down. Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs. The tale...
4.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 71.0 Supreme Court to rule in cross case
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is taking up a long-running legal fight over a cross honoring World War I soldiers that has stood for 75 years on public land in a remote part of California. The cross, on an outcrop known as Sunrise Rock in the Mo...
0.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 71.0 Economy hurts churches
NEW YORK (AP) Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances. The Great Recession made things worse. It s furth...
8.0K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 142.0 College player overcomes long odds
NEW YORK Kevin Laue isn t supposed to be here, standing on the court practicing for his first season of Division I basketball. Born without a left hand, the 6-foot-11 center from Pleasanton, Calif., is a freshman at Manhattan College, having earne...
5.6K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 71.0 Family humbled by love, support
My son s name, Kyle Lawrence, has become a household phrase throughout the community over the past several weeks. On Aug. 28, our family was forever changed when Kyle was struck by a van while he walked along U.S. Highway 101 near Pacific High School...
2.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 71.0 Smart may face alleged abductor
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Elizabeth Smart would tell a court the former street preacher accused of abducting her was motivated by sex, not religion, if she is allowed to testify at his competency hearing, a federal prosecutor said Friday. If Smart s test...
2.6K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 71.0 Census worker slain
MANCHESTER, Ky. When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drew on years of experience for a warning: Be careful. The 51-year-old Sparkman was fo...
7.0K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 71.0 Governor: Handle runaway convert case in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland believes the case of a Muslim girl who ran away to Florida after converting to Christianity should by handled by Ohio authorities. Strickland spokeswoman Amanda Wurst said Friday the state has no reason ...
3.2K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 71.0 Suicide bomb kills 20, hurts more than 130
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) A suicide bomber rammed a truck into a police station in the Russian region of Ingushetia today, killing at least 20 police in the worst attack in the poor North Caucasus republic in years. The blast, which wounded more than 130...
4.2K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 71.0 Jakes counsels patience in economic 'sorrows'
CHARLESTON, W.Va . (AP) As the economy continues to grind away at jobs, homes and lifetimes' of savings, Bishop Thomas D. Jakes looks back from his position as one of America's most successful preachers and re-members his own hard times. T.D. Jake...
7.1K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 71.0 Clinton at ceremony for embassy bombing
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today honored the victims of the deadly 1998 al-Qaida-linked attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A day before the 11th anniversary of the Aug. 7 bombings in Nai...
0.7K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 71.0 Nigeria police claim victory over radicals
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) Five days of fighting between government forces and a radical Islamist sect left dirt roads soaked with blood, buildings scorched and dozens dead, including the group s leader, but revenge attacks were feared even as the nat...
5.4K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 71.0 | 
