By TERRY MATTINGLY, Scripps Howard News Service
Religion: Exploring Obama's 'common ground' speech
President Dwight Eisenhower's Civil-Rights Commission faced high hurdles as it searched for common ground in the tense years after the U.S. Supreme Court began attacking the walls of segregation inside America's schools.
Religion: Screenwriter Eszterhas writes of finding God
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas knows all about strange plot twists, and he is convinced that God often sends big messages in the final acts of people's lives.
Religion: One woman's plea to Notre Dame
The women's-clinic nurse confirmed that Lacy Dodd was pregnant, and then told her not to worry because she had "other options."
Religion: Baptist project offers doctoral degree in spirituality
Don Whitney knows what happens when people hear that a Southern Baptist seminary is offering a doctor of philosophy degree in spirituality.
Religion: Hard choices for modern nuns
It may take time, but it's hard for a Catholic educator to publicly praise the work of nuns who have bravely leaped "beyond Jesus" without drawing some flak -- especially in the Internet age.
Religion: Advice for journalists on the faith beat
In most news reports, Mother Teresa seemed like such a nice, quiet holy woman.
But as any reporter who actually interviewed her quickly learned, Calcutta's "saint of the gutters" could be remarkably blunt. She once noted -- in a half-serious jest -- that she would rather bathe a leper than meet the press.
Religion: Meet a modern exorcist
It was clear from the man's testimony that all hell was breaking loose in his life and he needed help.
However, since this man was a scientist, the Rev. Gary Thomas wasn't surprised that he was a skeptic when it came to supernatural evil.
Religion: New rites for Passover
Passover is almost here, which means Jewish families are preparing once again to taste familiar tastes, ask familiar questions and hear the familiar answers that have united them through the ages.
Mattingly: Tom Hanks talks about religion
To hear Tom Hanks describe him, the hero who broke "The Da Vinci Code" is an academic superman whose knowledge of art, religion, history and philosophy can handle anything.
But in his next movie adventure, a Vatican official catches Harvard professor Robert Langdon off guard with this eternal question: "Do you believe in God?"
Mattingly: Church tragedies
By age 14, Cassie Griffin had collected a bedroom full of toy frogs, each a playful symbol of her F.R.O.G. motto -- Fully Relying On God.
