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Activists rally to bury the bodies from Gosnell abortion trial
(RNS) A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia district attorney said several people have called and tweeted requests for the bodies of babies killed by abortion provider Kermit Gosnell, but the ultimate decision will come from the medical examiner’s office.
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Feisty civil rights activist Will Campbell dies at 88
(RNS) A Southern Baptist who drank moonshine with the Catholic nuns he counted as his friends, Campbell was an equal-opportunity critic, castigating liberals as well as conservatives in his writing, preaching and storytelling.
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ETHICS: Do Americans really care how their clothes are made?
Clothing manufacturers in North America and Europe — operating with scant supervision of their operations — have made Bangladesh the second-largest exporter of clothes in the world. The enormity of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory is already beginning to change the country’s free-for-all business climate.
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After Boston, will we make peace or holy patriots?
After the violence at the Boston Marathon, America has a choice on its way forward, says Muslim writer Sam Wazan. He writes: "Now, the false question is “Why is Islam a religion of violence?” A better question is “Why do militant Muslim radicals find America to be the frontier?” The right questions diagnose problems more accurately."
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ANALYSIS: Where are the Christians on burying Tsarnaev?
Cemeteries and even some mosques have refused to take suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body. His city, Cambridge, has urged family members to bury him elsewhere. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez and local talk radio host Dan Rae want him dumped in the ocean, like Osama bin Laden. Clergy have largely kept mum.
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Duke theologian Richard Lischer tries to make sense of his son’s death
At its core, “Stations of the Heart” is a love story of a father and son. That son was a onetime assistant district attorney in eastern North Carolina, a husband, a recent Roman Catholic convert and an expectant father when a three-month checkup revealed a recurrence of melanoma, this time in the form of multiple, inoperable lesions. He was 33.
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Boston Marathon bombings: One week later, a look back at coverage
One week ago, the U.S. was rocked by bombs that exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. In the hours and days that followed, news outlets responded as usual: With a flurry of coverage. But sometimes, it's hard to take it all in. It's hard to think through it all. One week after Boston, here's a look back at what writers from all five faith and values sites around the country have been reflecting on.
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10 Essential points about the Boston Marathon bombers, Islam, and America
Omid Safi asks: "What happens now matters. How we as a nation move forward is critical. Do we turn our attention where it belongs, on comforting and healing the victims of Monday’s attacks, and do we allow a fair and legal process to bring charges against the captured suspect?
Do we turn into an angry mob accusing all Muslims of a crime that two men committed?
Do we turn this into an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant hysteria?"
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George Beverly Shea, Billy Graham’s song master, dies at 104
Even at age 98, Shea sang "How Great Thou Art" at the dedication of The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte in 2007 to crowds including three U.S. presidents, national ministry leaders, country music stars and national media.
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‘Death cafes’ normalize a difficult, not morbid, topic
(RNS) No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker in Columbus, Ohio.
But sometimes people need to talk about the "taboo" topic and when that happens, they might not be able to find someone who will listen, she says.
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Vitriol infests Rick Warren family’s grief
Though uncounted strangers have joined the 20,000 congregants who worship at the megachurch network “Pastor Rick” built in Southern California, Warren’s nearly 1 million Twitter followers and hundreds of thousands of Facebook followers in flooding social media with consolation and prayer. A shocking number are taking the moment of media attention to lash out at Warren on their digital tom-toms.
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