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Parents should take lead when talking with teens
Unfortunately for her, the girl down the street served as a red flag warning for the other kids at the high school. When she announced her pregnancy, a shudder ran through the teen social scene. ...

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Members of the St. Benedict congregation in Highland Park, Mich., depart after Mass on Jan. 29. Like many parishes, St. Benedict in Highland Park struggles to stay open.

Neighborhoods to lose more than just a church
DETROIT — On the east side of Detroit, the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church is the anchor of a neighborhood that has seen the addition of 14 new homes and a 62-unit senior center. Joyce Ande...

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UK government minister slams ‘militant secularism’
LONDON — Europe is threatened by a wave of “militant secularism” and religion should play a bigger role in public life, a British Cabinet minister said Tuesday, the latest British politician to em...

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Church Calendar
Fellowship Palma United Methodist Church, 2816 U.S. 68 W, Benton, will have a country ham and sausage breakfast buffet from 6:30-9 a.m. Saturday. Meals are $5 for adults and $3 for children unde...

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Jesus surrounded himself with true human frailties
They were just typical guys: several were fishermen, possibly two tax collectors, and maybe a political activist or two. They weren’t part of the intellectual elite or the chamber of commerce. S...

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Associated Press
U.S Army Maj. Ray Bradley sits at home Jan. 20 in Fayetteville, N.C. When Bradley enlisted in the Army in 1986, no one much cared that he was an atheist. Ever since 9/11, though, the Fort Bragg-stationed officer says a climate of Christian fervor has been growing in the Army, leading atheists, agnostics and other nonbelievers to look for ways to make their presence known.

Army officer wants humanism officially recognized
RALEIGH, N.C. — Soldiers who don’t believe in God can go to war with “Atheist” stamped on their dog tags, but humanists and others with various secular beliefs are still officially invisible in the...

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Be prepared to handle things beyond your control
“It’s just the luck of the draw,” the guest pronouncer told the contestants at the beginning of the regional spelling bee, explaining that he doesn’t select words for the spellers. Shortly after, h...

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Lawsuit filed over Jesus statue on public land
HELENA, Mont. — The battle over a 57-year-old Jesus statue at a northwest Montana ski resort escalated Wednesday with a new federal lawsuit arguing that the Forest Service needs to remove the r...

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Church Calendar
Special services The Kentucky Baptist Men’s Chorale is coming to Paducah for a concert at 7 p.m. Feb. 16. This group of men is comprised of full-time, part-time, volunteer ministers of music, un...

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Associated Press
The Rev. John Fredericksen of Orlando, Fla., alongside Burdette Streeter of San Diego, takes a picture in front of the war memorial cross on Mount Soledad on Jan. 4 in San Diego. Supporters of the war memorial, which is on public land in San Diego, are planning to ask the Supreme Court to reverse a federal court's decision deeming the cross unconstitutional.

Group wants Supreme Court to save war memorial
SAN DIEGO — Supporters of a war memorial cross deemed unconstitutional last year by a federal court plan to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, amid a growing fight nationwide over the u...

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