Starbucks is joining up with a network of nonprofit groups whose aim is to offer credit to individuals and businesses inunderserved communities to jumpstart job growth NPR reports Starbucks is teaming up with a network of community-based financial institutions to help create jobs Beginning Tuesda

Beginning tomorrow residents of Wisconsin will be able to apply for a permit allowing them to carry concealed weapons but nbsp the state s Catholic bishops are urging residents to leave their guns at home while attending Mass The Associated Press reports Wisconsin s bishops are urging parishione

Grisly haunted houses aren t my thing but perhaps even more disturbing is the uniquely fundamentalist Christian creation of Hell House an attraction that has been described as a modern day fire and brimstone sermon Brian Kirk at Patheos describes it Instead of vampires and werewolves guests are

The Los Angeles Times reports on a Mass offered for the twenty-fifth anniversary of a ministry program created by Cardinal Roger Mahony catering to those hit by the HIV crisis The then relatively new Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles Roger Mahony spoke to an audience of gay and lesbian

Over at The Huffington Post I reflect on my recent participation in a Lutheran friend s ordination ceremony and I then explore some ways that ecumenism may begin in worship in an attempt to find common ground on doctrine From the post I was in Connecticut at a suburban Lutheran church for the or

The Minnesota Independent reports on the most recent efforts of the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis to lend Catholic support to a ballot initiative that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in that state Archbishop John Nienstedt sent a letter to every priest in the state at the sta

Even as he continues to hold on to steady frontrunner status in state and national polls former Massachusetts Governor MittRomney fails to convince voters both in his party and those constituting the crucial independent bloc that he is a human being capable of a range of normal emotions Fueled p

The Washington Post reports on an Episcopal parish in the Washington DC area that recently made the jump to full communion with the Catholic Church under new guidelines The Rev Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of

You may have read about the controversy surrounding the Family Research Council s Values Voters Summit though isn t safe to assume that all voters vote their values and the claim that Gov Mitt Romney s Mormon faith makes him a member of a non-Christian cult From Politico Texas evangelical le

In the battle over immigration words such as illegals are used frequently in an attempt to dehumanize the millions of people who live and work in this country without proper documentation By turning individual human beings into objects in this case dark scary and unlawful things opponent