Faith & Values

When America's first ordained missionaries sailed from Salem to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America's most potent export: Christianity.

Music director’s marriage leads to his firing

By Michael Gordon | E-mail | February 11, 2012

Steav Bates-Congdon got married. Then he got fired. The popular music director at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in south Charlotte lost his job last month for marrying his longtime partner in New York, one of seven states to recognize same-sex marriages.

Matters of church, state

Can we experience the Divine without prayer?

McClatchy Newspapers | February 11, 2012

Voices of Faith offers perspectives from a panel of religion columnists. Panelists vary from week to week. This week's question: Can one experience the greatness of the Divine without prayer?

Baptists may elect first African-American leader

By Bruce Nolan | Religion News Service | February 11, 2012

After months of urging from around the country, the Rev. Fred Luter told his African-American congregation he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention.

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We can't keep our dirty secrets

Illinois couple implants frozen embryos, gets second set of twins

A month after Anabella and Matteus Potter were born in 2009, their parents, Adriana and Robert, agreed to disagree on what to do with two other embryos created in the same petri dish as their twins.