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The "Mormon Moment" has passed. I learned this from a book reviewer in The Christian Century , who criticized and dismissed a new book with a Mormon theme, and from a New York Times article which dated "the end of the Mormon Moment" before July, 2014.
Each Tuesday in July, The Dispatch will feature stories from young voters who will cast their first ballots for president this November, as well as those from veteran voters remembering their first time voting for president. The general election is set for Nov. 8. Jacob Craig registered to vote in spring 2015.
Hillary Clinton's running mate, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, has been described by critics as a snoozer of a choice who could fail to inspire the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party, blue collar workers and others. Instead, they describe a deep thinker with a light touch - a person who reads dense books on philosophy for fun but also jams on harmonica with any band that will let him play along.
For all the talk about 2016 being a wildly unusual election cycle, it's looking a whole lot like 2012. When it comes to how religious and non-religious voters appraise candidates, the prospective Clinton-Trump matchup resembles the Obama-Romney choice, the Pew Research Center found in a new poll, the results of which it announced Wednesday.
President Obama speaks at the General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland in December 2011. Regardless of whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins November's election, the next president faces what looks to be a nearly impossible task when it comes to governing: Persuading the other side to compromise.
The leader of a polygamous Utah sect may have came up with a simple but slippery way to escape law enforcement late last month: olive oil. Lyle Jeffs, the leader of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was initially being held in jail after federal authorities arrested him and 10 other church leaders over a food-stamp-fraud case earlier this year.
Throwback Thursday: A look back in history on June 30, including Hong Kong reverting to Chinese rule, Diego Maradona caught doping and the NYC subway costing 10 cents. A Douglas Dauntless dive bomber noses over as the pilot miscalculates a landing on the deck of one of America's newest aircraft carriers, somewhere at sea, on June 30, 1943.
The funeral of Muhammad Ali , attended by a throng of 20,000, was the first national funeral for a national hero of the United States that was also a Muslim ceremony or janazah . Muhammad Ali crafted it as a interfaith event, but obviously Islam was central.
It has been four years since Roseanne "Bob" Barr, star of the old sitcom Roseanne , ran for president as the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party. Her running mate was Cindy Sheehan, and they got 67,477 votes .
The church is closing after a nearly 12-year, around-the-clock vigil by parishioners who had tried to keep their beloved house of worship open. In 2004, when low attendance forced the St. Frances church in Boston to close, more than 100 parishioners started taking shifts occupying the pre... Named after the first Italian-American saint, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church has sat near the shore of Scituate, Massachusetts since the 1960s.
" For more than 11 years, a core group of about 100 die-hard parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church have kept their beloved parish open by maintaining an around-the-clock vigil in a peaceful protest of a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it. On Sunday, the parishioners' efforts will end and they will vacate the Scituate church many of them have attended for decades.
For more than 11 years, a core group of about 100 die-hard parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church have kept their beloved parish open by maintaining an around-the-clock vigil in a peaceful protest of a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it. On Sunday, the parishioners' efforts will end and they will vacate the Scituate church many of them have attended for decades.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged fellow leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies to unite Thursday in forging a more urgent, co-ordinated response to the faltering global recovery. Abe and his counterparts sat down at a big round table for the first of their summit working sessions after strolling through the grounds of the Ise Shrine, a tranquil, densely forested landmark that is the holiest site in the Japan's indigenous Shinto religion, and then joining a group of children in a tree planting ceremony.
I'm a Renegade Jew. It didn't start out that way. I was just an ordinary Jew, putting in my Jewish time, observing the Jewish calendar, mostly blowing off my Jewish responsibilities except for lip service to the faith on Yom Kippur and Passover.
In this Friday May 20, 2016 photo released by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hue, Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly, right, prays as he is welcomed back by Archbishop Tadeo to his parish in Hue, Ha Nam province, Vietnam. Vietnam granted early release from prison to Ly who is one of its most prominent dissidents, a move widely seen as a goodwill gesture before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives on an official visit late Sunday night.
The United Methodist Church rejected four resolutions calling for the church to divest from companies that profit from Israel's control of the West Bank. The votes took place over the weekend at the quadrennial United Methodist Church General Conference that began May 10 in Portland, Oregon.
Muslim students visiting an Oklahoma lawmaker's office in the state capitol were required to fill out a form that asked if they beat their wives and other questions that offended them, an Islamic advocacy group said. The two-page form from Republican state Representative John Bennett's office, which was shared by the Council on American-Islamic Relations , also asked whether they believed an adherent to Islam should be punished for leaving the faith and if Muslims should rule over non-Muslims.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies will begin their summit Thursday with a visit to Ise Shrine, the most hallowed site for Japan's indigenous Shinto religion - one of many aspects of the gathering that dovetail with Abe's long-term diplomatic and political agenda. As host, to the extent that it can, Abe's government has shaped the G-7 program to showcase his own political and economic platform, taking "leadership in guiding the world by showing the best path forward for peace and prosperity," according to an agenda distributed by the Foreign Ministry.