Monthly Archives: May 2007
Language, language…
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2007
U.S. Bishop Mounts a Rare Public Campaign Against the Vatican RNS’s Daniel Burke covers Bishop Donald Trautman’s increasingly vigorous campaign against a new translation of the Catholic Mass for American churches, which was ordered by John Paul II to bring it “more in line with the original Latin,” in this week’s full text article, linked […]
Religion Takes Hold in Second Life’s Cyber Universe
By Shona Crabtree — May 31, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ In Second Life, the online virtual universe that is attracting some 3.7 million users, you can light virtual candles for Shabbat, teleport to a Buddhist temple or consult the Oracle for some divine guidance. Second Life is a three-dimensional, online game produced by San Francisco-based Linden Lab […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Clinton, Obama, Edwards to Debate Faith and Poverty WASHINGTON (RNS) The three top Democratic presidential candidates will discuss faith, values and poverty and take questions from religious leaders Monday (June 4) at a forum sponsored by Sojourners/Call to Renewal, the progressive social-justice group. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. and Barack […]
Canadian Church Leader Is Looking for a Few Good Men
By Douglas Todd — May 31, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VICTORIA, British Columbia _ The new moderator of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination wonders why there are so few men in his church. David Giuliano, elected last year as head of the 600,000-member United Church of Canada, believes liberal religious institutions aren’t as welcoming of males as they think they are. […]
COMMENTARY: A Bug’s Life
By Cathleen Falsani — May 31, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) They’re late. The cicadas. I’ve been sitting on the chaise all week, staring at the grass in anticipation of their creepy arrival. Each time a blade of grass moved, I leaned over expecting to see an army of arthropods fighting their way through the top soil, all alienesque and […]
10 Minutes With … Zarqa Nawaz
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) What do “Desperate Housewives,” the racy ABC drama, and “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a Canadian sitcom created by a devout Muslim woman, Zarqa Nawaz, have in common? They were both picked up by Canal Plus, a French pay-TV giant to be broadcast in France and French-speaking parts of […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NCC’s Edgar to Take Helm of Common Cause (RNS) The Rev. Bob Edgar, the outgoing general secretary of the National Council of Churches, has been named president of the public interest advocacy group Common Cause. Edgar, 63, a former congressman from Pennsylvania and an ordained United Methodist minister, was elected […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Pope Upgrades Interfaith Outreach Office VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will upgrade a Vatican office in charge of dialogue with the Islamic world, a little more than a year after subordinating it to another body. The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue will become “a dicastery in its own right,” […]
U.S. Bishop Mounts a Rare Public Campaign Against the Vatican
By Daniel Burke — May 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a rare show of defiance, a Roman Catholic bishop is using increasingly fiery language to spark a grassroots revolt against a new Vatican-ordered translation of the Mass. Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, Pa., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy, has used several critical essays and […]
New Museum Blends Creationism With the Gospel
By Adelle M. Banks — May 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PETERSBURG, Ky. _ Ken Ham stood outside his $27 million Creation Museum before its official opening on Monday (May 28) and declared its mission is not just to counter evolution. He also wants to create a few Christians. “We don’t just want to see people converted to creationism,” said Ham, […]
Some Sobering Facts Behind the Pomp and Circumstance
By Tom Ehrich — May 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I doubt that this year’s commencement speakers will venture too deeply into reality. Too depressing for a celebratory day. No one will address the study that showed only 18 percent of high school freshmen enter college and finish their degrees in less than six years. Too invisible. But let’s […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service American Legion, Legal Groups To Defend Religious Symbols on Memorials WASHINGTON (RNS) The American Legion has joined forces with two conservative legal groups in a campaign to defend religious symbols on veterans’ memorials. Reacting to suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups that have challenged crosses at […]
Comic Strip Artist Follows Faith to a Big Museum Honor
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ When Jordan Gorfinkel got a call from the Munich Jewish Museum asking if his comic strip on Jewish life could permanently grace the entrance, he was taken aback. At first, he thought the museum wanted Art Spiegelman, the cartoonist who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for his Holocaust […]
Muslim Hookah Bar Opens Its Stage to Christian Musicians
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service MORRISTOWN, N.J. _ Three Muslim brothers plan to open their cafe and hookah bar for Christian music nights starting next month. Every Thursday night from June 7 through July 26, Cafe Arabica will set up the stage for several Christian rock bands that have traveled from around the country. The […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Radio Station Refuses Ads About Female Pastor SYRACUSE, N.Y. (RNS) Mars Hill, a local Christian radio network, won’t accept paid advertising for an upcoming Christian crusade in Syracuse because a female pastor is participating. “We can’t comfortably promote women in the role of pastor,” said Wayne Taylor, the general manager. […]
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