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Corporate Chaplain Finds Way to Combine Spiritual Calling, Entrepreneurship

By UCN on May 6, 2012 2:30 PM

Corporate chaplain Nate Schroder, right, meets with Mark Boe, of Guardian Pharmacy, April 24 in St. Cloud, Minn. They meet on a regular basis. (Kimm Anderson, St. Cloud (Minn.) Times)

Nate Schroder has served as a pastor for most of the last 30 years, but he always considered himself an entrepreneur at heart.

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Focus on the Family to Withdraw Religious-Liberty Ballot Initiative

By UCN on May 5, 2012 4:36 PM

Focus on the Family senior vice president Tom Minnery said Friday the conservative Christian advocacy group soon will withdraw its ballot initiative for a constitutional amendment prohibiting state interference with the religious freedom of a person or organization.

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Weather Delays Joel Osteen's Night of Hope at Nationals Park to Today

By UCN on April 29, 2012 5:27 AM

Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church, right, and his wife, Victoria, stand for the national anthem before a Washington Nationals baseball game against the Houston Astros in Washington on April 16. (Ann Heisenfelt - AP)

America's sunniest pastor has been rained out.

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Christian Rappers on Mission to End Fatherlessness

By UCN on April 27, 2012 6:28 AM

The 32-year-old Christian rapper says biblical manhood is the key to stopping fatherlessness in Atlanta and beyond.

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Lesbian Christian Singer, Jennifer Knapp, Finds Churches Still Welcome Her

By UCN on April 26, 2012 1:40 PM

When Christian singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp acknowledged her homosexuality a few years ago, she figured she was done singing in churches. She already had walked away from her eight-year career in contemporary Christian music in 2002 because her theological views no longer toed the evangelical line.

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Joel Osteen's Goal to Reach People Where They Are At Divides Pastors

By UCN on April 26, 2012 4:17 AM

Come sunset Saturday, Nationals Park will be full not with baseball fans but with 41,000 devotees of another American phenomenon: Joel Osteen.

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Sovereign Grace Ministries to Relocate from Maryland to Kentucky

By UCN on April 23, 2012 11:58 AM

A small, growing denomination that has faced internal conflicts in recent months is moving its headquarters from Maryland to Louisville.

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Chuck Colson Legacy: How "Nixon's Hatchet Man" Shaped a Movement

By UCN on April 22, 2012 7:15 AM

The real story of how "Nixon's hatchet man" ended up in, out, and back in prison (and the White House), shaping a movement in the process.

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Voice of the Martyrs Director, Tom White, Passes Away

By UCN on April 18, 2012 6:03 PM

The Voice of the Martyrs has announced the passing of their executive director, Tom White.

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NBA Players Come Together to Make, Promote Sports Apparel with Christian Messages

By UCN on March 30, 2012 10:57 AM

Lin playing against the Dallas Mavericks (Chris Trotman / Getty Images)

As Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin have risen to prominence in the NFL and NBA, the touchstones of professional sports and religion have converged perhaps as never before.

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