Christie News Archives

Some people talk about Biblical capitalism. They believe in a prosperity gospel.

Actress Lindsay Lohan attends a court hearing at Beverly Hills Municipal Court on October 16, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.

The alleged seizure of the Bibles, imported from neighboring Indonesia, is certain to reignite complaints by religious minorities that their right to practice their faiths freely has come under threat as the government panders to the Muslim majority.

Christians who believe they'll vanish from Earth in the rapture can now hire an atheist to care for their pets.

A retired state trooper who now serves in the statehouse says he occasionally carries his gun to the Capitol after he received threatening phone calls at home.

The Vatican begins talks Monday to bring a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics back under its wing, nine months after the pope created an uproar by rehabilitating one of their bishops despite his denial of the Holocaust.

The baristas at Common Cup Coffeehouse are known to serve up a good cup of coffee: Their beans are locally roasted, often organic and fairly traded.

The sprawling Shiite suburb of south Beirut has made a comeback after the destruction wreaked by Israel during 2006 fighting, a symbol of the community's resilience at a time when its political patron, Hezbollah, is seeking a greater voice in Lebanon's government.

Which is a better subject for Christian contemplation: Hellfire, or the kind that's used to burn Bibles? We got plenty of both this week, courtesy of two religious groups with very different methods but strikingly similar concerns.

Sunny Hundal: I've suggested a few issues Nick Griffin could be asked about when he appears on Question Time a ' have I missed anything? It goes without saying that Nick Griffin is a hateful, slippery character.

October 11 marked this year's National Coming Out Day here in America. Homosexuals took to the streets announcing to the world that they will longer hide their true selves.

Mother Teresa was a Kolkatan, part of the city's heritage and one could not give history away - be it intellectuals, Christian organisations or the common person, Kolkatans reacted as one to Albania's proposal that the remains of the Nobel laureate be returned to her country of origin.

I'm writing in response to Mr. Robert Morris's comments on religion and health care in his open letter on Oct.

A former military lawyer who served in the Reagan White House is suing a Dallas-based religious group for allegedly inciting harm upon him through prayers.

Obviously many ministers and laypeople in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are upset with that body's recent decision to permit gay clergy in committed relationships to serve as full fledged clergy.

A tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters is going up for sale, Christie's auction house said Friday.

The decision to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol highlights efforts by religious parties to win support with Shiite voters before crucial parliamentary elections this January.

LLAS e_SEmD Oral Roberts University leadership was well represented this week when top leaders in the Pentecostal-Charismatic world came together to brainstorm about the future of the movement that has become a dominant expression of world Christianity.

WHEN The Christians burst onto the UK music scene in the late 1980s, they were lauded for being that rarest of things a ' a British band with real soul.

The Rev. Carlton Pearson, a former Pentecostal bishop who has embraced Universalism, preached at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa in September 2008.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman writes the bi-weekly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members of the greatest generation.

Christian opponents of marriage equality complain that if gays are allowed to marry, this would destroy the institution of marriage.

This article from the Manchester Union Leader epitomizes the moral dark side of the conservative movement all too well.

Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions.

Lunatic Ahole Fred Phelps ... who ran for office twice as a Democrat, raised funds for Al Gore and served as a Gore delegate at the 1988 DNC convention , and was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War ... is traveling to New York City with his little band of hate-freaks. This time, they're laying off the gheys and going after the Joos... The ...