Monthly Archives: August 2005
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Iraqi Religious Minorities Worry About Proposed Constitution (RNS) Leaders of some Iraqi religious minorities say the second article in the proposed constitution, which discredits laws that contradict the laws of Islam, could endanger their autonomy. “Who will interpret these Islamic laws?” said Dr. Suhaib Nashi of the Mandaean Association Union. […]
COMMENTARY: Intelligent Design Is an Article of Faith
By Amy Sullivan — August 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) President George W. Bush created a stir this month when he let drop to a group of Texas reporters that local schools should be able to teach creationism _ er, the other “side” of evolution. “Both sides ought to be properly taught,” said Bush, according to an unofficial transcript […]
American Scientists Ask Pope to Clarify Position on Evolution
By RNS Blog Editor — August 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ FedEx phoned Lawrence Krauss’ cluttered office in the physics department at Case Western Reserve University. This package he was sending abroad, a dispatcher asked, could he give a more complete address? The package held a letter Krauss had addressed to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, 00120 Vatican City. […]
Is NPR overdoing its religion coverage?
By RNS Blog Editor — August 27, 2005
Interesting discussion by NPR ombudsman, Jeffrey A. Dvorkin. One listener complains, “I too am dismayed and disgusted by the outpouring of religion that you have put on your programs in recent months. I do not listen to NPR to be proselytized. “ Walter Watson, senior producer of Weekend All Things Considered, replies: “Religion-and not just […]
Prayer for forgiveness
By Tracy Gordon — August 27, 2005
Quote of the Day: Taize community leader Alois Leser “With Christ on the cross we say to you, Father, forgive her, she does not know what she did.” -The Rev. Alois Leser, the new leader of the Taize ecumenical community in France, praying during the funeral of slain Taize founder Brother Roger Schutz. Schutz was […]
Catholic stance on evolution; Presbyterian gay standards
By RNS Blog Editor — August 27, 2005
Friday’s RNS report features a story by Frank Bentayou about the pope being asked to clarify the Catholic Church’s position on evolution: Case Western Reserve University physics professor Lawrence Krauss is weighing in on a dispute between two of the world’s most visible institutions, science and the Catholic Church. The question at hand: How did […]
Reed College, BYU Ranked as Nation’s Most Secular and Religious Colleges
By Kein Eckstrom — August 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If your family is about to spend $40,000 a year to send your freshman off to Reed College in Portland, Ore., you can rest assured that he will get the nation’s top-ranked overall academic experience for undergrads. The one thing the Reed student won’t get, however, is much time […]
On Terrorism, New Pope Adopts Tougher Talk With Muslims
By RNS Blog Editor — August 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ In his historic 2001 visit to Syria, the late John Paul II became the first pope to visit a mosque, where he stressed the common heritage of Christianity and Islam and highlighted the prominence of the Virgin Mary in the Quran. He also noted a certain “misuse […]
COMMENTARY: Painful Memories Addressed on PBS Show
By RNS Blog Editor — August 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A PBS-TV program scheduled for broadcast on Tuesday (Aug. 30) is an extraordinary study of how two families, one Orthodox Jewish and the other Polish Catholic, confront sacred memories, a shared bitter past, and most importantly, how they encounter each other 60 years after the end of the Holocaust […]
Reed College, BYU Ranked as Nation’s Most Secular and Religious Colleges
By Kein Eckstrom — August 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If your family is about to spend $40,000 a year to send your freshman off to Reed College in Portland, Ore., you can rest assured that he will get the nation’s top-ranked overall academic experience for undergrads. The one thing the Reed student won’t get, however, is much time […]
COMMENTARY: Thou Shalt Not Assassinate Foreign Leaders
By RNS Blog Editor — August 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Pat Robertson spoke to TV viewers Monday (Aug. 22) on his “700 Club,” publicly calling for the assassination of the three-time elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Calling Chavez a “terrific danger” in the Americas, Robertson said: “We have the ability to take him out and I think the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Christian Group’s Ads Target Senate Majority Leader on Stem Cells WASHINGTON (RNS) A conservative Christian group is launching ads in the crucial presidential proving grounds of Iowa to pressure Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to change his new position on embryonic stem cell research. The Center for Reclaiming America, part […]
Tougher new pope; religion at universities
By RNS Blog Editor — August 26, 2005
Stacy Meichtry writes in Thursday’s RNS report that Pope Benedict XVI is tougher on Islam and terrorism than his predecessor: In his historic 2001 visit to Syria, the late Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit a mosque, where he stressed the common heritage of Christianity and Islam and highlighted the prominence […]
As Criticism Mounts, Robertson Apologizes for Assassination Comments
By RNS Blog Editor — August 25, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Responding to a growing chorus of denunciation, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday (Aug. 24) for suggesting on his television show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated. “Is it right to call for an assassination?” asked Robertson in a statement posted on his Christian Broadcasting Network Web […]
Christian Magazines and the Newsstand
By RNS Blog Editor — August 25, 2005
Christian Magazines, Like Musicians, Try to Tap Secular Market RNS’ Adelle Banks reports on the efforts of Strang Communications and other publishers of religious magazines to increase single-copy sales through placement on general market newsstands. In the piece, Doug Trouten, executive director of the Evangelical Press Association, says that “The general market success of products […]
