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This week brought a proposed $3.4 billion settlement to a little known class action suit against the US Department of the Interior on behalf of over 300,000 Indians. Our writer tells how his family history dovetails with the tragic story behind this lawsuit.

If Hyde is unfair and discriminatory, why is extending it “neutral”?

RD speaks with filmmaker Lisa Darden who helped to alert Pastor Rick Warren to the dangers of remaining silent.

Conservative Episcopalians have denounced the election of only the second openly gay bishop, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has urged bishops to not seat her. But others, like one of the first women priests, aren’t worried about the well loved bishop-elect who remains focused on her duties.

In his latest book Frank Schaeffer speaks to those Christians who have grown weary of religious right hatred and political power plays.

Richard Cohen, leader of a program that advocates the “changing” of homosexuals to straight, disavows anti-gay legislation in Uganda, but doesn’t see the connection between it and his own missionary efforts in that country.

The Orthodox Jews of Lakewood, New Jersey, are worried about supporting the rights of gays and lesbians to marry because it might reflect badly on the community. Rabbi Justus N. Baird offers a corrective.

Following lead of others, Warren finally issues a statement.

Warren condemns the punishment but not inflammatory rhetoric.

In this excerpt from Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism), the son of influential evangelicals asks whether anyone who remains a “professional Christian” in the evangelical/fundamentalist world risks becoming an atheist and/or a liar.