Gov Sarah Palin was baptized in the Catholic Church but later joined a Pentecostal church as a teenager the Wasilla Assembly of God Her new church requires baptism by immersion so at age 12 Palin and her mother and sisters were re-baptized in Beaver Lake according to the Los Angeles Times M

Here s the trailer for a new ish hour-long documentary on Dorothy Day which includes something I ve not seen before some filmed footage of Dorothy speaking on poverty nbsp If the full movie is as good as the trailer it s certainly worth the price nbsp More information on the movie can

Mike Huckabee rsquo s was the best speech of the night Mitt Romney rsquo s the worst Rudy Guiliani rsquo s was feisty and funny and he gave the toughest speech of either party rsquo s convention but it was strange to see a former mayor of New York use the adjective cosmopolitan in a derogatory

By dawn Christian homes in the village were smoking heaps of burnt mud and concrete shells Churches were razed their wooden doors and windows stripped off A Reuters first-hand account of the continuing pogrom against Christians in eastern India -- Christians cower from Hindu backclash in Orissa

Really nbsp Beliefnet s got the story and so does The Deacon s Bench here nbsp The information seems to have come from the newly re published biography of Governor Palin nbsp Her Wikipedia entry nbsp also notes her Catholic background and mentions her rebaptism at age 12 in an nbsp A

nbsp The President of the United States just can rsquo t help himself Even when he is trying to praise an ally he ends up smearing the patriotism of his political opponents George W Bush the first sitting president since Lyndon Johnson in 1968 not to address his party rsquo s convention becau