Author: The Rev. Chuck Currie

Source: The Washington Post

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/12/poverty_is_a_faith_issue.html

"Woe to him who builds his house on unrighteousness, and his upper room by injustice, who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages." (Jeremiah 22:13)

President Obama's tax compromise with the GOP...

Author: Douglas A. Hicks

Source: The Washington Post

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/12/return_of_the_christmas_wars.html

Welcome back to the "December dilemma" death match -- the 2010 edition. In this corner are the self-proclaimed defenders of Christmas, ready and organized to denounce anyone who says "Happy Holidays." In the other corner are a more motley crew of retailers,...

Author: Katie Glaeser

Source: CNN Belief Blog

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/06/nativity-scenes-sent-to-all-50-governors/

This supposedly peaceful time of year has the capacity to create tension - Christmas light rivalries and fights over whether religious decorations should adorn government spaces.

But the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says it is just trying...

Author: Ben Terris

Source: The National Journal

http://nationaljournal.com/congress/inhofe-makes-big-picture-protest-of-hometown-holiday-parade-20101206

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and the Acres of Love Alpaca farm, are taking a stand. Neither will participate in Tulsa’s holiday parade this year after officials changed its name from the Christmas Parade of Lights to the Holiday Parade of...

Author: Alicia M. Moulton

Source: Bringham Young University Alumni News

http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2701

Andrew J. Kosorok (BFA ’04) leans over a panel of glass, on which he etched an intricate floral motif. This piece is called Al-Mu’mim, Inspirer of Faith. It represents the growth of God’s creations as they react to trials and blessings.

The Harold B. Lee Library recently displayed eight of Kosorok’s...

Author: Shirley Jinkins

Source: The Star-Telegram

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12/02/2674421/fort-worth-pastors-call-for-bus.html

A group of Fort Worth African-American pastors is calling for a passenger boycott of city buses displaying advertising signs that they say are offensive to Christians.

The disputed signs read "Millions of Americans are Good Without God" and were paid for by the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Pocono Record

Wire Service: AP

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101201/NEWS90/101209965/-1/NEWSMAP

Philadelphia's Christmas Village has become nothing but a holiday hassle.

A day after discussions of religious diversity led officials to remove the word "Christmas" from signs at the Christmas Village...

Author: Sandra Bookman

Source: WABC-TV

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=7817315

There are now dueling billboards at the Lincoln Tunnel in the battle over Christmas by Atheist Americans and The Catholic League.

American Atheists fired the proverbial first shot with this billboard along the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: National Public Radio

Wire Service: AP

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/30/131708313/smithsonian-removes-video-after-catholics-complain

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery quickly removed a video Tuesday that was part of an exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious.

Catholic League...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11854429

Former UK PM Tony Blair has defended the role of religion in global affairs, in a televised debate in Canada with atheist columnist Christopher Hitchens

Mr Blair, a Catholic convert, said faith was a force for good and it was futile to attempt to drive it out.

Author: John Grant Emeigh

Source: The Missoulian/The Montana Standard

Wire Service: AP

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_f5a44b32-f462-11df-a6b7-001cc4c002e0.html

The Montana Supreme Court of Friday sided with a Butte High School valedictorian who was barred from speaking at her 2008 graduation because she made references to God or Jesus in her speech....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AZ Central

http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/Church+building+causes+uproar/673616933001

A new Phoenix church under construction is being mistaken for a Muslim mosque.

Author: Sam Hodges

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/111710dnmethitchens.40dba40.html

If you're a Christian school bent on bringing in an atheist to test students' faith, why not shoot for the stars?

That was the thinking at Prestonwood Christian Academy, which landed Christopher Hitchens, a celebrity skeptic and author of...

Author: Barney Zwartz

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-life/a-focus-on-faith-20101115-17ugo.html

A scrubby bush in the desert may seem an odd candidate for a sacred space, but so it was - according to the biblical account - when Moses approached the burning bush that fire did not consume. ''Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground,'' he was...

Author: Laurie Goodstein

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/us/17bishops.html?ref=us

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York to be its president on Tuesday in a surprise move that reaffirmed the conservative direction of the Roman Catholic Church in America.

The vote makes Archbishop Dolan the most visible face of the church in the United...