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October 30th, 2009
Southern Pagans peek out of the broom closet
Tom Cornwell had a secret stashed in the ottoman of his Savannah, Georgia, home. A former Jehovah's Witness elder and minister for 20 years, he ...
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September 4th, 2009
Challenges for Bible Belt atheists
A red Hyundai with a Darwin fish and an "atheist" license tag eases up to a fast food drive-through window in Huntsville, Alabama. A van pulls up behind it. Five children slip out, line up ...
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February 9th, 2009
Inside a "voudou" village in South Carolina
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He should have honored their ways.
When a county health inspector threatened to press charges against the members of Oyotunji ...
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November 16th, 2008
Descended from the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s, The Twelve Tribes strives to restore true Christianity
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When Shuvael and Matanah Hebert sold their upscale, four-bedroom home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to ...
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August 12th, 2008
Amish teens flirt with modernity before deciding to embrace the church
Joseph Miller says he likes driving Italian sports cars, drinking tequila and partying all night—and, oh yeah, he’s an Amish teenager. “But that ...
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June 25th, 2008
Searching for spiritual explanations for ghosts in America’s most haunted city
Young lovers hear inhuman growls when they stroll past it. Passing tourists feel tugs at their shopping bags, but when they whirl around, nothing is there. Teenage thrill-seekers take photos of ...
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May 22nd, 2008
Some Navajo Indians mix Christianity with the old ways
Raymond Lewis, a retired mechanic living in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, tucks away his rosary and rises from kneeling and praying in front of a statue ...
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April 11th, 2008
Seekers find salvation in New Age capital of America
Yvonne Draper came to Sedona to kill herself. With a ruptured disc in her back, a hip that slid out of the socket, knees and ankles that ...
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February 28th, 2008
The Mormon Church is busy growing (and challenging misconceptions)
"You're not true Christians," shouts the barrel-chested 43-year-old Lonie Pursifull to a group of Mormons passing through Temple Square, the world headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ ...
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February 27th, 2008
BYU students are proud of their faith but it doesn't mean they're all the same
Bushy haired, scruffy and wild-eyed, a punk-rock singer bellows out the words to an irksome tune. Blaring throughout the campus, the singer's lyrics laud the virtues of environmentalism. ...
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