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Commentary: Bhutto assassination is reminder of darker side of Christmas story

Commentator Rev. Gordon Stewert remembers that part of the Christmas story is about spying, power, murder and exile. The assassination this week of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reminds him those forces remain at work in the world today.

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The Christmas tree debate: Real or fake?

The Christmas tree debate: Real or fake?

Did you think of the ecological consequences of your Christmas tree? Minnesota Public Radio did some homework on whether real or artificial trees are better for the environment.
by Sea Stachura

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Commentator Peter Smith: Slowed by traffic on the road of life

Commentator Peter Smith: Slowed by traffic on the road of life

Commentator Peter Smith sees the themes of his life played out on the road. All too often, he is stuck behind a slow-driving green minivan.
by Peter Smith

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What role should religion play in American politics?

What role should religion play in American politics?

Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney laid out his views on the proper role of religion in American public life Thursday, saying, "We should acknowledge the Creator as did the founders, in ceremony and word."

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Finding beauty in the religions of others

Finding beauty in the religions of others

A Minneapolis sculptor uses handmade paper, uprooted trees, grapevines, and dried roses to tell a story of loss, displacement and personal spiritual transcendance.
by Marianne Combs

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Four stories for the start of Hanukkah

Four stories for the start of Hanukkah

National Public Radio commissioned four short stories to commemorate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which begins Tuesday at sundown.

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Michelle Shocked's spiritual journey

Michelle Shocked's spiritual journey

When a punk rock feminist folk singer finds Jesus, the result is a beautiful live gospel album.

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Coleman presses Thai ambassador on Hmong graves

In 2005, a videotape surfaced showing workers in Thailand exhuming Hmong graves at the Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp, dismembering bodies, removing the bones, and throwing the remains into open graves.
by Toni Randolph

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Priest puts L.A.'s ex-gang members to work

Rev. Greg Boyle is the founder of Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, an organization that gives jobs to young men and women who agree to give up the gang life.

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Howard Jacobson spins a world from 'Kalooki Nights'

Howard Jacobson spins a world from 'Kalooki Nights'

Kalooki is central to British novelist Howard Jacobson's new book. It's a card game in which no one really knows the rules. Jacobson says it's a great way to describe the British Jewish community where he grew up, and he uses it in his new comic novel "Kalooki Nights."
by Euan Kerr

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