• Seattle Airport Removes Christmas Trees

  All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.

• Megachurch Pastor Confesses to Gay Encounters

  The founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel has resigned after he said he had sexual relations with other men.

• College Adjusts Tactics to Draw American Indian Christian Leaders

  American Indians aren't beating a path to Christian colleges, so Cook College and Theological School in Tempe, with 95 years of experience educating Indians, is reinventing itself.

• Excommunicated Cleric installs Married Men as Bishops

  An excommunicated Roman Catholic archbishop continued to defy the Vatican when he installed two married priests as bishops on Sunday.

• Presidential Hopeful Spends Night in Prison

  Sen. Sam Brownback took his budding presidential campaign to prison this weekend, spent a restless night among inmates and pressed his message that faith can work even to improve the lives of hardened