Religion
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Thanksgivukkah open to latkes, gravy and MenurkeysNov 21, 2013 4:30 am - This year's rare convergence of the secular holiday of Thanksgiving with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah should be good news for potato sales. It seems blasphemous to hos...
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Condell to host interfaith Thanksgiving celebrationNov 20, 2013 4:41 pm - Advocate Condell Medical Center hosts its fifth annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration on Sunday, Nov. 24 at Advocate Condell Centre Club, 200 W. Golf Road, Libertyv...
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Oakton highlights Rumbula massacre, Nazis in fictionNov 20, 2013 2:24 pm - Jewish Studies at Oakton is making two free presentations that shed light on the massacre of Jews in the Baltics and the use of Nazi figures in literature at the college...
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Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized again in North CarolinaNov 20, 2013 10:00 am - ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham has been admitted to a hospital for the second time in a month for respiratory issues. Mark DeMoss of the Atlanta-based DeMoss Gr...
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Are you taking someone for granted?Nov 20, 2013 9:57 am - “But you will not always have me.” — Mark 14:6 (NIV) Have you ever wondered what keeps us from being thankful? I think it’s because we’ve become too familiar with our ...
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Gay marriage raises questions for businessesNov 19, 2013 4:00 pm - When same-sex couples begin to wed in Illinois this summer, some of the businesses that make those weddings happen may face a delicate predicament. While the new legisl...
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Schaumburg church mourns loss of longtime priestNov 19, 2013 1:47 pm - The Rev. Warren McCarthy helped shape the growth of Schaumburg’s first Catholic church, St. Marcelline, leading the congregation as its second pastor from 1976 to 1997. ...
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Editorial: A neighborhood church chooses the better partNov 19, 2013 7:06 am - Every Sunday, an average of 1,350 people attend services at Orchard Evangelical Free Church in the leafy Hickory Meadows neighborhood of Arlington Heights. For years, th...
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Methodist pastor who performed gay wedding to learn fateNov 19, 2013 6:56 am - SPRING CITY, Pa. — A United Methodist minister convicted under church law of performing his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony could learn Tuesday if he’ll be defrocked. A ...
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Jazz trio to perform in LibertyvilleNov 19, 2013 5:54 am - Jazz will be celebrated Sunday, Nov. 24, during the Jazz Vespers program at The St. Lawrence Episcopal Church, 125 W. Church St., Libertyville, the church said in a news...