The lawsuit was filed in 2006 by the family of a Hudson funeral director who, along with one other man, was fatally shot four years earlier. A judge found probable cause that the Rev. Ryan Erickson shot the two men after allegations surfaced that Erickson had sexually abused someone.
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Commentator Rev. Gordon Stewert remembers that part of the Christmas story is about spying, power, murder and exile. The assassination this week of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reminds him those forces remain at work in the world today.
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Did you think of the ecological consequences of your Christmas tree? Minnesota Public Radio did some homework on whether real or artificial trees are better for the environment.
Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney laid out his views on the proper role of religion in American public life Thursday, saying, "We should acknowledge the Creator as did the founders, in ceremony and word."
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A Minneapolis sculptor uses handmade paper, uprooted trees, grapevines, and dried roses to tell a story of loss, displacement and personal spiritual transcendance.
In 2005, a videotape surfaced showing workers in Thailand exhuming Hmong graves at the Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp, dismembering bodies, removing the bones, and throwing the remains into open graves.
Rev. Greg Boyle is the founder of Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, an organization that gives jobs to young men and women who agree to give up the gang life.
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