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Do gays need a church of their own anymore?

Do gays need a church of their own anymore?

In 1968 the founding of the Metropolitan Community Churches offered a lone spiritual refuge to openly gay Christians, an idea so far from the mainstream that the founders were often chased from places where they tried to worship. Four decades later, some of the most historically important American denominations, which had routinely expelled gays and lesbians, are welcoming them instead.

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The Amish and forgiveness

In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school and killed five children and himself. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the Amish community and parents of the victims quickly and publicly declared their forgiveness for the killer and set up a fund for the killer's family.

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Salvation Army raises $4M toward goal

The Salvation Army holiday fundraising campaign is on track to meet its goal. The nonprofit has raised about $4 million in the Twin Cities metro area and hopes to reach $9.8 million by the end of December. About half of that money has been donated in the Salvation Army's traditional red kettles.
by Julie Siple

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Mexico's Mayas face Dec. 21 with ancestral calm

Mexico's Mayas face Dec. 21 with ancestral calm

Amid a worldwide frenzy of advertisers and new-agers preparing for a Maya apocalypse, one group is approaching Dec. 21 with calm and equanimity -- the people whose ancestors supposedly made the prediction in the first place. Mexico's 800,000 Mayas are not the sinister, secretive, apocalypse-obsessed race they've been made out to be.

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Lutheran church faces financial challenges

Lutheran church faces financial challenges

Luther Seminary in St. Paul is having financial problems. Its current president resigned after reports that the school lost nearly $4 million last year. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer discussed that with the presiding Bishop of the ELCA, Mark Hanson.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Catholics say time to heal after divisive marriage amendment campaign

Catholics say time to heal after divisive marriage amendment campaign

More than a month after Minnesota became the first state to defeat a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, some Catholics say it's time to acknowledge the division it caused, so parishes can begin to heal. Catholic Bishops put significant financial and spiritual resources behind the amendment, alienating some parishioners. The biggest cost may be Catholics who walked away from the church and haven't returned.
by Sasha Aslanian

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LIVE coverage on Connecticut school shooting.

Coverage from WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio, on the elementary school shooting this morning. 27 people are reported to be dead, including 18 children.

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Hanukkah Lights 2012 from NPR

Hanukkah Lights 2012 from NPR

National Public Radio's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz present new stories commissioned for Hanukkah, which begins December 8, 2012.

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Historic Boston church considers sale of hymnal

Historic Boston church considers sale of hymnal

The first book printed in what would become the United States was a Puritan hymnal of psalms, sturdy enough that 11 copies that came off a wooden Cambridge press in 1640 still exist. Now, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book may bring millions of dollars to the Boston church that owns it -- if a divided congregation agrees in a vote Sunday to sell it.

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