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United Methodists will again debate LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings
by Jason DeRose
The United Methodist Church is holding its first General Conference since the pandemic and will consider whether to change policies on several LGBTQ issues.
Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Raises Questions Of Religious Rights, Tax Status
by Tom Gjelten
Religious colleges worry that if they stick to their convictions, they may lose tax-exempt status. That happened to Bob Jones University in 1983 because it continued to prohibit interracial dating.
Bailout Makes Germans Just As Squeamish As Greeks, For Different Reasons
by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
The eurozone's third bailout program for Greece was largely the work of German leaders, but makes may Germans uncomfortable. They want a hard line taken with Greece, but fear being seen as bullies.
School-Lunch Program Provides Unexpected Benefits For Rural Indian Women
by Rhituparna Chatterjee
A simple job as a cook at a school can help women in Northern India make big changes in their lives — including escaping domestic violence. For Saroj, it freed her from decades of abuse.
On The Cold, Dead Fringes Of The Solar System, Pluto Looks Shockingly Lively
New Horizons team scientist Carly Howett says no one expected the kind of geologic activity that the spacecraft appears to have found on the dwarf planet and its moon.