What religious names are in your family? What’s the significance about naming someone after a religious figure? Do you think about religion when considering names for your children? What are the popular names of your faith tradition?
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Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows
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Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”
Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dea...
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Pastor Meg Hegemann and congregation members welcome new member John Flaim to Wilkes Boulevard First United Methodist Church in Columbia, Mo., on March 3, 2013.
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POLL: Should businesses get exemptions from the contraception mandate?
Hobby Lobby is seeking an exemption from the part of the healthcare mandate that requires employers to offere coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Other businesses have also joined the challenge against compliance. Should businesses be able to get such exemptions?
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Ci Cyfarth, on POLL: Should businesses get exemptions from the contraception mandate?
Steve: While I agree with you wholeheartedly that including contraception in an insurance plan doesn...
Ci Cyfarth, on Branded
Kelsey: It’s true. My Catholic friends are amazing. :) Others have included links to examples of s...
William R. Dickson, on POLL: Should businesses get exemptions from the contraception mandate?
I… I agree with Steve! What is happening? Someone hold me.
Greg Lammers, on POLL: Should businesses get exemptions from the contraception mandate?
I wish I would’ve written your comment Steve. Well put.
Taz, on Branded
After reading all of the comments and the great article, it reminds me of trying to define an entire...
