Monthly Archives: August 2007
Ad Spotlights a Candidate’s Shifting Spiritual Journey
By Jan Moller — August 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BATON ROUGE, La. _ Before he began climbing the ranks in the Louisiana Republican Party, gubernatorial front-runner Bobby Jindal, the conservative son of Indian immigrants, endured years of emotional and intellectual struggle as he left behind his family’s Hindu faith and embraced Catholicism. It’s a journey that is detailed in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Court Says Minister Should be Rebuked for Lesbian Wedding (RNS) A mid-level court of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has overturned a lower court ruling and ruled that a lesbian minister should be rebuked for conducting a same-sex wedding ceremony. The 6-2 decision against the Rev. Janie Spahr was made on […]
Katrina Churches Rebuild _ But Not Always in New Orleans
By Kim Lawton — August 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly NEW ORLEANS _ Pastor R.C. Blakes has two flocks in two different cities. On Sunday mornings here, services are packed at his New Home Family Worship Center, which is working to get all of its ministry programs up and running two years after Hurricane Katrina. His other church is […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: What’s in a Name?
By Hesham Hassaballa — August 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Should Christians call God by the name “Allah”? At least one Catholic bishop in the Netherlands, Tiny Muskens, thinks so. “Allah is a very beautiful word for God,” he recently told Dutch television. “Shouldn’t we all say from now on we will name God Allah? … What does God […]
Professor Tests the Science Behind Chinese Healing Art
By RNS Blog Editor — August 24, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Clad in matching blue and white warm-ups and worn black tennis shoes, 62-year-old Shin Lin teaches his weekly qigong class on a grassy lawn at a community center here. In gently sweeping movements, his students follow his lead, shifting in slow motion from one pose to another, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 24, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Graham Undergoes Colonoscopy to Treat Bleeding (RNS) After three episodes of intestinal bleeding, evangelist Billy Graham underwent a colonoscopy Wednesday (Aug. 22) to address his ailment. His doctor found an area of active bleeding and treated it with cauterization, officials at Mission Health & Hospitals in Asheville, N.C., said in […]
Two Years Later, Trumpeter Searches for `God’s Will’ in Katrina
By Frank Jack Daniel — August 24, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Two years after Hurricane Katrina, it may be that one of the most searching spiritual responses to the deluge and disaster has come not from a theologian but an acclaimed jazz musician. Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Terence Blanchard’s new CD, “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem […]
RELIGION BEST-SELLERS
By RNS Blog Editor — August 24, 2007
RELIGION BEST-SELLERS (Editor’s note: This August list is compiled by Publishers Weekly magazine from data received from general independent bookstores, chain stores and wholesalers within the month of July. Copyright 2007 Publishers Weekly. Distributed by Religion News Service.) HARDCOVER 1. “God Is Not Great,” by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $24.99) 2. “Reposition Yourself,” by T.D. Jakes. […]
COMMENTARY: When the Silver Screen Is a Mirror on Faith
By Dick Staub — August 24, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) This e-mail popped into my inbox this week: “Saw a movie I really, really enjoyed the other night. It’s an independent called `Once’ that was shot in just 17 days so it’s a little tough to find a theater. But it was worth the drive to Chicago for me […]
New Uses Can Breathe New Life Into Old Churches
By RNS Blog Editor — August 23, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Dozens of children chattered with excitement in a space where the faithful of the former Heights United Presbyterian Church once raised their voices in worship. The pews were gone, and the sanctuary had become the Heights Youth Club basketball court. Overseeing the gathering was not a preacher […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 23, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Council Sets Dates for Ramadan, But Not Everyone Agrees (RNS) A council of Islamic legal scholars in North America has revised a fatwa from last year that determines when Muslims mark major holidays and other important dates such as the start of Ramadan. According to the new changes made by […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: God Isn’t My Co-pilot; He’s My Running Mate
By Douglas Hicks — August 23, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) We are experiencing a peculiar sort of religious awakening in America. If the various Republican and Democratic candidates have not had recent conversion experiences, they have at least been moved to talk about faith. And they are doing so in ways we have not seen this early, this prominently […]
10 Minutes With … George Foreman
By Dena Ross — August 23, 2007
c. 2007 Beliefnet (UNDATED) After losing a 1977 boxing match to Jimmy Young, George Foreman returned to the locker room and entered a dark place _ a place so dark he wouldn’t wish it on his greatest enemy _ where only the grace of God could save him. Not long after, he gave his life […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 22, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WCC Proposes `Six Church’ Meeting to Parallel Korean Talks (RNS) The World Council of Churches has proposed a “six church” meeting to parallel and monitor the “six party” talks on nuclear and other issues affecting the Korean peninsula. The church meeting would involve religious leaders from North and South Korea […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 22, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Vatican Starts Low-Cost Flight Service for Pilgrims VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has its own bank, its own postal system, its own pharmacy and its own soccer tournament _ but until now, no official state-sponsored airline. That will change when the Holy See teams up with a small Italian charter […]
