Job bias claims at record level, as religion complaints increase
by Associated Press | The Washington Post
Federal job discrimination complaints rose to an all-time high last year, led by an increase in bias charges based on religion and national origin...[continued]

Church keeps the faith with four-lane bowling alley
by Katie Drews | Chicago Sun-Times
For some people, St. John’s Lutheran Church and School is a place of worship. For others, it’s a place to bowl. A four-lane regulation bowling alley tucked in the basement of the Northwest Side church since the Depression era is one of the few remaining “church alleys” in Chicago... [continued]

Megadeth star takes thrash metal and seminary on tour
by Tim Townsend | USA Today
David Ellefson was an honest-to-God founding member of the legendary thrash metal band Megadeth. Ellefson's studies at Concordia illustrate why distance-learning seminary programs are increasingly popular nationwide as the convenience of online education brings new candidates to divinity schools who don't have to uproot their lives to attend...[continued]

Suit challenging Nevada marriage religious test to continue
by Steve Green | Las Vegas Sun
A federal judge has refused to dismiss an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging Nevada’s "religious test" for officials to perform marriage ceremonies. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro, in a ruling signed last week, indicated there may be merit in claims by ACLU attorneys that the religious test is unconstitutional... [continued]

A miniature Christian bookstore in the palm of your hand
by Kay Campbell | Religious News Service
God may hold the whole world in his hand, but persecuted Christians can now hold an entire seminary library on a fingertip... [continued]

Barbershop patrons stir a church plant
by Tobin Perry | The Baptist Press
"There's this huge generation of people who just have never heard the Gospel in a language they can understand," Sean Boone said. So Boone started a church, New Beginnings Christian Fellowship, three years ago to reach people no one else was reaching -- the kind of people who frequented his barbershop. Now a North American Mission Board church planter working bivocationally, he is one of a handful of church planters engaging metropolitan St. Louis with the Gospel in new and fresh ways... [continued]

Pro-life activists take to National Mall for annual march
by Meredith Somers | The Washington Times
Some arrived with fellow parishioners, others with classmates or alongside family members, but the thousands of pro-life activists who rallied Monday on the National Mall to mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade all came to support the same goal: life... [continued]

Law firm fights to restore 'God' banners to California classrooms
by Stoyan Zaimov | The Christian Post
A nonprofit law center has taken up a petition with the Supreme Court over a controversial case involving a California math teacher who had patriotic banners with Christian messages removed from his classroom – while displays related to other faiths were allowed to remain on campus... [continued]

House bills promote religion at war memorials
| CBS News
The House on Tuesday passed two bills endorsing the use of religious symbols at military memorials. One writes into law the propriety of displaying religious markers at war memorials while the other orders that the Interior Department add to the World War II Memorial in Washington a plaque with Franklin Roosevelt's prayer to the nation on D-Day... [continued]