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Making room for doubt in the church

October 18, 2011 Leaders say encouraging questions about faith can bolster belief

Malory Green needed an answer. After returning from a mission trip where she experienced poverty and unimaginable suffering for the first time, she felt like her world was falling apart.

Making room for doubt in the church

Justice in the parking lot

October 10, 2011 Saddleback Church offers free legal aid to the community in its Parking Lot Justice event

About fifty Christian attorneys volunteered their time Oct. 1, providing free legal aid to over 1,000 people ranging from businessmen to single mothers.

Justice in the parking lot

'Extraordinary'

October 5, 2011 The U.S. government argues against religious hiring protections before a skeptical high court

The U.S. government argued before a panel of six Catholic and three Jewish Supreme Court justices that religious institutions should be treated like any other institution in matters of hiring, shocking the justices in an already blockbuster religious freedom case,Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

'Extraordinary'

City fines home Bible study

September 23, 2011 A San Juan Capistrano couple is forced to stop holding Bible study

The Southern California city of San Juan Capistrano fined a couple $300 for holding a Bible study in their home and ordered them to stop meeting because they did not have a city-approved permit.

TOMS Pressured to Lose Focus

July 18, 2011 Gay rights activists angered by TOMS partnership with Focus on the Family

TOMS Shoes is living proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

TOMS Pressured to Lose Focus

A socially conservative San Francisco?

June 23, 2011 As the demographics in San Francisco shift, policy on a circumcision ban likely won't pass.

The latest census data show a shift of political power from whites to more conservative minorities in the liberal bastion of San Francisco.

A socially conservative San Francisco?

A Jew for Jesus

June 19, 2010 Moishe Rosen put Christian belief on the map for American Jews

I was a pastor and religion journalist in San Francisco in 1970 when Martin "Marty" Meyer Rosen, sporting a signature mustache, hit town. He would become a friend for the next 40 years, known all over the United States as Moishe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus, a colorful, headline-grabbing evangelical outreach group. Following his death on May 19 at age 78, The Jewish Chronicle described him as the world's "most famous Jewish evangelist."

A Jew for Jesus

‘This can’t be L.A.!’

September 25, 2009 A multimedia online exhibit commemorates the 60th anniversary of a groundbreaking Billy Graham revival

Sixty years ago today, a tall, blond preacher with a Southern drawl ignited an eight-week revival that propelled evangelical Christians into the national consciousness for the first time in decades.

‘This can’t be L.A.!’