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The Front Pew

Interact with religion reporter Nancy McLaughlin.

August 18, 2010

Tweeting the Bible, one chapter at a time

Chris Juby, from Durham City, is condensing one Bible chapter a day into less than 140 characters – the maximum allowed for a single entry on social networking website Twitter.

With the Bible containing 1,189 chapters, the project will take the 30-year-old more than three years to complete, with his last entry due on November 8, 2013:

"Gen2: God formed a man and gave him the garden in Eden, except for the tree of knowledge. Adam was alone so God made a woman as his partner."

August 17, 2010

The mosque at Ground Zero: have we been here before?

When in history have we been here before? For many people, what Obama said seems right, but then again, what Harry Reid said feels right to them.

Two big-name pastors to be sentenced for their 'crime'

Following the case of Anthony and Harriet Jinwright? The couple received unreported love offerings, along with other unreported income from their ministry, and could spend the next five decades in prison.

Has this changed the way houses of worship operate? Should it?

August 16, 2010

The two greatest problems of the Catholic hierarchy?

"Along with the crimes of sexually molesting children and developmentally disabled adults, and of using and distributing pornography, the Vatican listed 'the attempted sacred ordination of a woman,' "according to an award-winning author.

"In other words, the two greatest problems the Catholic hierarchy faces are women and children."

Ramadan Road Trip

At Ramadan, two Muslim men try to break their fast in 30 different states.

August 13, 2010

State gives students two essentially 'tailor as will' holy days

A new North Carolina law requires public schools and colleges to give students at least two days off to observe their religion's holy days. Is that the answer to what's really "Christmas break?"

August 10, 2010

Your leader's last vacation

Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans.

Paul Rand and the 'Aqua Buddha'

If true, it sounds like the college experience many of us had. The hijinks, that is.

August 9, 2010

Beyond name-calling

Evan as the proposed mosque near Ground Zero has passed a high hurdle, other hurdles exist. But beyond name-calling exists an emotional, politically driven

war

over American values.

Do you miss the Sabbath?

I can remember when Food Lion was known as Food Town. The one in my hometown then displayed a sign saying "We'll never open on Sunday."  Was it a better time?

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