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Jobs may be hard to come by in this tough economy, but Detroit's former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was able to secure gainful employment this week - and on the heels of a jail sentence to boot.

A Texas death-row inmate who plucked out his right eye before his 2004 trial has dug out his left eye and eaten it, The Associated Press reports.

In an HBO documentary set to air Jan. 29, disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard says he never claimed to be heterosexual, as was once reported, and he continues to struggle with same-sex attraction. But he's committed to living a heterosexual life because he believes it's better for children to be raised by a mother and a father.

While being a committed Christian, Tony Blair did not, in Alistair Campbell's famous phrase, "do God". George Bush is different. Famously born again from his dissolute, hard drinking ways, the soon-to-depart US president's fervent faith helped make America's large evangelical community the bedrock of his election victories.

A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road."

Southern Baptist churches are being recruited to join a massive 12-year long, grassroots evangelism plan to share the Gospel with every person in North America by 2020. 

On Sunday, a Texas preacher sat on a bed near his pulpit and offered an unusual challenge to the married couples in his congregation: Have sex every day for a week. "Sadly, the church has been silent over a topic that God is not silent about," said the Rev. Ed Young, founder of the nondenominational Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas.

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, often mentioned as someone who could shepherd the GOP out of the political wilderness, says Republicans neglected religious conservatives this year and need to maintain their support as the party regroups.

A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for "organized criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons.

The Georgia Baptist Convention recently changed its policy on receiving monetary gifts to allow it to refuse funds from churches that were "not in cooperation and harmony" with the Southern Baptist Convention.

A Texas Southern Baptist group this week urged President-elect Barack Obama to restrict abortion and called on Christians not to support charities or other groups that promote abortion or embryonic stem-cell research.

Protesters galvanized by a dragging death that has stirred memories of the notorious James Byrd case rallied twice outside an eastern Texas courthouse to speak out against a judicial system they consider racist.

The theologically conservative Diocese of Fort Worth voted Saturday to split from the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, the fourth traditional diocese to do so in a long-running debate over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.

A jury was selected in Marshall's federal court this week to hear a copyright infringement case against Tyler Perry of Atlanta, Ga. The playwright, actor and film director is probably best known for his comic female character, Madea.

God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long. Once a day. Beginning this Sunday.

A Texas Longhorns team leader Monday praised the way coaches handled the dismissal of a player who posted a racial slur on his Facebook page about President-elect Barack Obama.

Semba* has two wives and five children, but he hasn't seen them in nearly 20 years. At the end of a long workday, Semba relaxes in his dingy, single-room flat in the Paris suburbs. Six other West African men crowd around him, their eyes trained on his television. They're watching the JESUS film. 

Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible.