Religion

Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white supremacy.

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Minneapolis church votes to leave ELCA over gay-friendly policies

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

A Minneapolis church voted to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the largest Lutheran denomination in the country, because the church voted in August to MORE »

Pastor and wife celebrate 25 years at North Minneapolis church

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

It's rare indeed for a pastor to serve a quarter-century at one charge, especially in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), where pastors are appointed to their respective churches for one

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Evangelical treatment program gets $2.4 million from state

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

Minnesota Teen Challenge's headquarters in Minneapolis' Elliot Park neighborhood. Photo: Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

A former crack user says she kicked her addiction because she found Jesus at Minnesota Teen Challenge. A man says that God healed his liver after a prayer service at the Christian drug treatment facility. While its clients sing its praises - some claiming it saved their lives - should such an overtly religious program be receiving taxpayer funding? According to state records, MNTC has gotten more than $2 million from the state of Minnesota in order to run its faith-based chemical dependency treatment centers.

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The night of power: A story of Ramadan in St. Paul

By Abdiaziz Ahmed, TC Daily Planet

It's approaching 3 a.m.

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OPINION | Beth El should not have invited Condoleezza Rice

By Phil Freshman, American Jewish World

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) meets with then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Aug. 26, 2008, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Phil Freshman argues that Rice was a key member of the Bush administration inner circle that planned the Iraq War, and should not appear on the Beth El bima. (Photo: Omar Rashidi/PPO/BPH Images)

I was appalled and saddened recently to learn that Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park - the congregation to which I belong - will host former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Nov.

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Islamic advocacy group conducts diversity workshop for Twin Cities employers

By Ted Trautman, TC Daily Planet

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On August 4, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations  (CAIR-MN) hosted a workshop in St. Paul that brought together employers from a variety of industries to discuss issues of religious diversity in the workplace.  The workshop, whose primary audience was the managers of businesses that employ relatively large numbers of Muslim workers, was called "Positive Interactions."

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Bachmann on school prayer: ACLU trying to ‘purge’ religious expression from ‘marketplace of ideas’

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

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And what about Jewish values at the Values Voter Summit?

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

 

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Bachmann to join Pawlenty at controversial religious right rally

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

Rep. Michele Bachmann will join Gov. Tim Pawlenty at the biggest religious right event of the year. The Sept. 18 Values Voter Summit, hosted by Focus on the Family and several other groups opposed to gay rights, generates controversy just about every year it's held. In 2006, a speaker decried "faggots" and a gay-rights movement that was born in the "pit of hell itself." In 2007, birther Janet Folger claimed that Mitt Romney thought Satan is Jesus' brother. The buzz in 2008 was the racist "Obama waffles" stand.

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