Monthly Archives: March 2006
Spring Cleaning
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
Students, Many Motivated by Faith, Clean Up New Orleans on Spring Break Some college students, many motivated by faith, have given up beach and beer to spend their spring breaks in New Orleans assisting in the hurricane cleanup, as Bruce Nolan reports in this week’s full-text RNS article (linked above). Quote: “It’s very clear to […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Leaders of Struggling Holiness Tradition Issue `Manifesto’ ASUZA, Calif. (RNS) National leaders from 10 denominations have released a “Holiness Manifesto,” pledging to get back to the basics of their historical roots _ the Holiness tradition _ to recover their zeal, overcome lagging attendance and increase their influence in society. The […]
Bush Promises to Help Christian Convert on Trial for Rejecting Islam
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) President Bush warned Afghanistan Wednesday (March 22) that he expected the conservative Muslim country to “honor the universal principle of freedom” in the case of Abdul Rahman, a 41-year-old Afghan who faces the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity. “I’m troubled when I hear _ deeply troubled […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Pope Drops Centuries-Old Title `Patriarch of the West’ VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a departure from more than 1,300 years of papal tradition, Pope Benedict XVI is no longer going by the title “patriarch of the West.” In a move aimed at clarifying his job description, the Vatican announced Wednesday (March […]
Southern Baptist Mission Board Drops Effort to Remove Critical Member
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A Southern Baptist board voted unanimously Wednesday (March 22) to drop its effort to oust a fellow trustee who had defended the right of missionaries to speak in tongues and had taken his case to the Internet. The move by the International Mission Board, meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., […]
Former Gaza Settlers Feel Abandoned on the Roadside
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service YAD MORDECHAI, Israel _ The row of tents that includes Yossi Levy’s temporary refuge is a roadside blur to those driving north of the Gaza Strip. The tent city, pitched in the shadow of a gas station in August after residents were evicted from a settlement three miles away, was […]
`Munich’ Film, World Events Show Nature of Revenge
By Nancy Haught — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In the movie “Munich,” Steven Spielberg tells the story of five covert hit men, recruited to avenge the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists during the Olympic Games in 1972. The film has been controversial because, blending fact and fiction, the avengers wrestle with the ethics […]
COMMENTARY: A Rabbi’s Momentary Encounter With a Muslim Jeweler
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I am a sucker for lapis lazuli. Perhaps that’s because my simplistic taste in colors draws me to the Crayola-crayon blue gemstone. Perhaps it’s that I fell in love with its alliterative name the first time I read it in the book of Exodus. Regardless, I own about 15 […]
O’Malley goes from Archbishop to Cardinal
By Tracy Gordon — March 23, 2006
Quote of the Day: Catholic Archbishop Sean O’Malley of Boston “It’s unlikely that I will experience a bloody persecution, but there’s always more subtle forms of persecution that people have to endure for their beliefs and to be able to witness to the Gospel. … And certainly one of them is to be ridiculed.” -Boston […]
Ex-Gaza settlers; and the nature of revenge
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 2006
Ex-Gaza settlers feel abandoned on the roadside, according to a story by Joshua Mitnick in Wednesday’s RNS report: The row of tents is a roadside blur to those driving north of the Gaza Strip. The tent city’s 80 inhabitants were among 8,200 Jewish settlers removed from the Gaza Strip last August. That they have been […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Descendant of Jonathan Edwards May Face Gay Wedding Trial (RNS) A Presbyterian minister who is a distant relative of famed Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards could face a church trial on charges that she officiated at a wedding for two women. No formal charges have yet been filed against the Rev. […]
Activists Refuse to Leave Closed Historic Church
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Activists opposed to the closure of historic St. Augustine Parish who occupied its vacant rectory before dawn Monday (March 20) said they would not leave until the Archdiocese of New Orleans promises to reopen the parish, which had operated for 165 years. An activist inside the rectory […]
COMMENTARY: Plenty of Christian Work to Do When Not Arguing About Sexuality
By Tom Ehrich — March 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service CARDIFF, Wales _ “Don’t forget in all your structuring and institution-building,” said the Swedish preacher, “love first.” After three days marked by familiar controversies like homosexuality, women in leadership and use of Scripture, leaders from Anglican, Nordic and Baltic churches knew what Archbishop Karl Gustav Hammar, of Uppsala, meant. “We […]
Traveling Educator Preaches Separation of Science and Religion
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Some conservative Christians call evolution “just a theory.” But to Gregory Forbes, it is a scientific principle under attack. He considers it his mission to defend it in Michigan and across the country. “In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory,” […]
Man Behind `Roe v. Wade for Men’ Says He Should Have Had Choice
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service SAGINAW, Mich. _ Matt Dubay doesn’t see himself as a deadbeat trying to duck child support for his 8-month-old daughter. The Saginaw Township resident views himself as a champion for men who are “railroaded” into becoming fathers for children they never wanted. “I don’t believe men have any say and […]
