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Daniel Burke’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridHow Pete Buttigieg found God
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The path from analytic philosophy to the Episcopal Church is not especially well traveled. But then, Peter Paul Buttigieg's search for God contains a few crooked lines.
A rock star was asked what God's voice sounds like. His answer is beautiful
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Nick Cave's website and newsletter, The Red Hand Files, has become a cyber-sanctuary for the Australian rocker to commune with fans and answer questions about everything from Elvis to the nature of evil.
The Pope's Dark Night of the Soul
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"Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?" "I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner." The room is small and red. Heavy red curtains, red-tiled floor, red coverlet on the bed. A painting of the Crucifixion is the only adornment.
Why was I spared from Amtrak train 188's crash? - CNN
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"i think the Amtrak i just got off just crashed in philly."
Roy Moore, Jerusalem and LGBT rights: Why is religion so divisive?
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This week, the combative side of religion was hard to escape, whether you were in Washington, Tuscaloosa or Tel Aviv.
Andrew Yang sang with a black church choir. Not everyone said 'Amen'
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As the Rev. Wendy Hamilton was leaving Union Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa, she turned to see some commotion in the choir.
The Methodist Church will probably split in two over homosexuality, and that's bad for all of us
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The United Methodist Church is one of the few places in American life where people as different as Hillary Clinton and Jeff Sessions can share the same pew. If a proposed schism is approved, that likely won't be true anymore.
The friendly atheists next door
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Harry was raised in a cocoon of Catholicism. Nearly everyone the Shaughnessys socialized with belonged to their church or attended their parish school. Every so often, a priest would stop by for dinner, which was invariably preceded by the Christian prayer of grace, "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts ..."
Why the 'Mormon' church changed its name. (It's about revelation, not rebranding.)
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Russell Nelson speaks more openly and often about his divine revelations than any Mormon president in recent memory. But can a prophet succeed in the age of the iPhone?
Comedian Pete Holmes was a good Christian guy. Then his wife left him, and things got weird.
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Pete Holmes was raised an evangelical Christian, which taught him, among other things, to save sex for marriage. When his marriage fell apart, so did his faith. But his search for God didn't stop there.
American Muslims are becoming more accepting of homosexuality in society. Their mosques are anoth...
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For many LGBT Muslims, coming out of the closet to their families and religious communities can be a fraught decision. One Muslim leader says she receives calls regularly from young gay and lesbian Muslims who are afraid to reveal their sexual identity.
Mystery at the new Bible museum: Are its Dead Sea Scrolls fake?
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Some scholars say the artifacts date to the days of Jesus. But others say they're forgeries meant to dupe Christians, including the new Museum of the Bible.
Seeing the Pope help strangers made me tear up. Later I learned why.
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Psychologists call the emotion "elevation," and it can have enormous power over us, whether you're the Pope or a famous Hollywood director.
Virginia seminary sets aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to descendants of slaves
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An Episcopal seminary in Virginia says it has set aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves who worked on its campus, putting the small school at the vanguard of colleges and universities who have been grappling with their roles in slavery and ways of making amends.