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Christian Colleges That Oppose LGBT Rights Worried About Losing Funding

9:11am March 28, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

Conservative Christian colleges are worried that their doctrinal commitments with respect to LGBT issues could run afoul of sex discrimination law under Title IX and jeopardize federal financial aid.

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DMG Foods, the Salvation Army's first supermarket, offers discount groceries to nutritional assistance beneficiaries and anyone else who walks through the door.

Salvation Army Opens First-Ever Supermarket, In Baltimore

7:41pm March 27, 2018

by Dominique Maria Bonessi

The longtime religious charity Salvation Army, known for providing clothing and shelter, is trying a new tactic to help low-income residents in Baltimore — offering them access to healthy food.

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Jimmy Carter Signs Copies Of His New Book "Faith: A Journey For All"

A Former President, A Person Of Faith

4:38pm March 27, 2018

Jimmy Carter weighs in on prayer, peace and what it means to be presidential.

Calvin College in Michigan is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church, which holds that "homosexual practice ... is incompatible with obedience to the will of God as revealed in Scripture."

Christian Colleges Are Tangled In Their Own LGBT Policies

1:16pm March 27, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

Conservative Christian colleges worry their official positions on LGBT issues could run afoul of sex discrimination law and harm relations with their own students.

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Chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt speaks with Loyola-Chicago guard Ben Richardson after a regional final NCAA college basketball tournament game Saturday.

Sister Jean, Breakout March Madness Star, Celebrated By Her Fellow Nuns

1:49pm March 26, 2018

by Maggie Hendricks

"There's our girl!" says Sister Peggy Geraghty as the camera pans to Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, the 98-year-old Loyola-Chicago men's basketball team chaplain.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, right, speaks with his disciples in this undated photo in Rajneeshpuram, Ore.

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Religion, Libertarian Cults And The American West In 'Wild Wild Country'

2:18pm March 25, 2018

Directors Chapman and Maclain Way explore the Rajneeshees — a cult behind the largest U.S. act of bioterrorism — in their new Netflix documentary mini-series, Wild Wild Country.

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A resident leaves church in Cumming, Iowa, last November.

Another Effort To Get Rid Of The 'Johnson Amendment' Fails

5:59pm March 22, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

Conservatives wanted the Omnibus Spending Bill to repeal a provision in tax law that bars churches and other nonprofits from engaging in partisan political campaigns, but they lacked the votes.

A Chaplain Talks March Madness

6:39am March 21, 2018

NPR's Noel King talks to Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, the 98-year-old chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team.

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Jesus is depicted in a wall mosaic inside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, which served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral from A.D. 537 until 1453.

Author Traces Christianity's Path From 'Forbidden Religion' To A 'Triumph'

2:30pm March 20, 2018

by Terry Gross

Religion scholar Bart Ehrman says that the early spread of Christianity transformed the entire history of the West — for better or worse. His new book is The Triumph Of Christianity.

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Ifrah Farah, a recent immigrant from Somalia, lives in the complex allegedly targeted by the would-be terrorists. Since the bomb plot was revealed, she says she won't go out at night. "I would like to ask the bad guys, 'Why? What am I doing? Why are you t

Mosque Bombing Plot Rattles Immigrants In Kansas' 'Meat Triangle'

11:49am March 20, 2018

by Frank Morris

Militia members accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in southwest Kansas go on trial Tuesday. The alleged plot laid bare tiny pockets of potentially violent racism in the region.