Monthly Archives: September 2007
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 29, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service South African Anglicans Elect New Primate (RNS) Bishop Thabo Makgoba was elected Archbishop of Cape Town and leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa on Tuesday (Sept. 25), succeeding a stalwart ally of the embattled Episcopal Church in the U.S. Makgoba, the current bishop of the Diocese of Grahamstown, […]
Internet Fuels Growth of DIY Sukkahs
By Jeff Diamant — September 29, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Decades ago, preparation for the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot typically involved struggling several hours with plywood or metal to build a sukkah _ the temporary huts Jews are supposed to erect for the eight-day holiday that began Wednesday (Sept. 26) night. Now, Jews are increasingly able to buy […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: `Help Me With My Unbelief’
By RNS Blog Editor — September 29, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A friend told me, “I feel like I just want to hide sometimes.” Don’t we all? She talked about how she suddenly was scared of doing her job at a department store. And about how she had become frightened about singing in the choir. This middle-age lady is an […]
Calendar of October/November Religious Events
By RNS Blog Editor — September 29, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Note: Holidays that begin at sundown continue through sundown of the next day, unless otherwise noted. (UNDATED) Here is the RNS calendar of major religious holidays, denominational meetings and other events for October and November. It will be updated monthly. Oct. 4 Simchat Torah (Jewish celebration marking the end of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Arkansas Nuns Excommunicated for `Army of Mary’ Ties VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, Ark., has excommunicated six nuns for their membership in a Canadian movement whose founder claims to have been inspired by the Virgin Mary. Earlier this month, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine […]
Reinhold Niebuhr is Unseen Force in 2008 Elections
By Benedicta Cipolla — September 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) Thirty-six years after his death, Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr seems more alive than ever. Perhaps not since President Jimmy Carter acknowledged Niebuhr’s influence in his 1976 campaign has the name been on so many people’s lips. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told New York Times columnist David […]
COMMENTARY: Sports’ Season in the Sun is Over
By James Rudin — September 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Like millions of other Americans, I am cynical about public leaders who “misspeak” and escape responsibility for their errors by invoking the infantile mantra that “mistakes were made.” Sometimes they use deceptive Orwellian language or shamelessly change their long-standing positions on important issues. But I always assumed there was […]
Mormon Men Drop the White Shirts for No Shirts at All
By Lilly Fowler — September 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mormon missionaries can usually be spotted by what they’re wearing: white shirt, dark tie, name tag, bike helmet. Lately they’re getting noticed for what they’re not wearing: anything above the waist. Hoping to debunk the popular image of Mormons as straight-laced corporate types, a steamy new “Men on a […]
An Urban High School Model That Works
By RNS Blog Editor — September 27, 2007
Jesuits Find a Working Model for Urban Schools RNS’s Daniel Burke profiles Christo Rey, “part of a national model of Catholic high schools versed in reaching out to young students from risky backgrounds,” in this week’s full-text article, linked above. Quote: The new schools join a network that sends more than 95 percent of graduates […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service R.I. College Settles With Students Over Abortion-Rights Signs (RNS) Rhode Island College and a campus group have reached a settlement after the college ordered the removal of signs with messages such as “Keep your rosaries off our ovaries.” The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island announced Tuesday (Sept. 25) […]
Insurance Offered for Church Fender Benders
By Adelle M. Banks — September 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When Pastor Jim Goforth’s Pontiac Aztec got hit by a teenage driver in a church parking lot a couple of years ago, his insurance company waived his $500 deductible. The pastor of New Life Baptist Church in Florissant, Mo., was covered by GuideOne Insurance, which has tailored its FaithGuard […]
Churches Urged to Put Service Ahead of Sermons
By Lilly Fowler — September 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Jim Yelvington decided he would do something different with the launch of his new church in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. _ cancel Sunday worship services. As part of a new “Faith in Action” program, Yelvington traded traditional Sabbath singing and praying for a Sunday dedicated to community service. His […]
10 Minutes On … Forgiveness
By RNS Blog Editor — September 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (Adelle M. Banks, Daniel Burke, Shona Crabtree, Omar Sacirbey, Ansley Roan and Kevin Eckstrom contributed to this report.) (UNDATED) Reflecting on the murder of five Amish schoolgirls last October in Nickel Mines, Pa., one local Amish man said he was struck by parallels between that crime and the biblical story […]
COMMENTARY: Looking East Through Western Eyes
By Phyllis Zagano — September 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Why is a Georgetown University theology professor, born in Vietnam and educated in Rome and London, under the microscope of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? The answer is in the first sentence. The professor’s international background gives him an international outlook, and his starting point […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service GOP Wants Answers About Religious Texts in Prisons WASHINGTON (RNS) A group of conservative House Republicans has sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons seeking information about its effort to ban religious texts from prison libraries. “No matter how well-intentioned, a government project to limit books and other […]
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