Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: Faith-based delay; Atheist clergy; Gilligan’s sin

More than a year after President Obama signed an executive order on reforms to the White House faith-based office, recommendations to implement the order have finally been sent to federal agencies.   Mark Silk and I have the inside scoop on what caused the delay (hint: contraception). Atheists have unveiled The Clergy Project, an online […]

More than a year after President Obama signed an executive order on reforms to the White House faith-based office, recommendations to implement the order have finally been sent to federal agencies.  

Mark Silk and I have the inside scoop on what caused the delay (hint: contraception).

Atheists have unveiled The Clergy Project, an online support network for pastors who have lost faith and found atheism.


Between 70 – 90 percent of Muslims surveyed in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon view al-Qaeda unfavorably, according to a recent survey. 

A proposed amendment to Florida's constitution would remove a ban on taxpayer funding of churches and other religious institutions.

Just 4,000 of the 24,000 inmates receiving kosher food in U.S. prisons are Jewish, according to The Forward. 

More than three hundred people are expected to attend a vigil against bullying in Utah after the suicide of a Mormon teen

Dan Savage, the outspoken gay activist, argued at the National High School Journalist Conference that Christians should “learn to ignore the b——- in the Bible about gay people.”

A popular Egyptian film actor was sentenced to 3 months in jail and a fine equivalent to $170 for insulting Islam.


Kenyan churches are tightening security after a lone attacker exploded a grenade inside an evangelical church in Nairobi on Sunday, killing one person and injuring 15.

A 47-year-old man stared down a church official in a Philly courtroom on Monday as he described being raped by a priest as a child, the AP reports. 

Reports are emerging that the Catholic church in Italy accepted a large bribe from a mobster's widow to allow his interment in a basilica.

According to the creator of “Gilligan's Island,”  each castaway represented one of Christianity’s “seven deadly sins.” Peggy Fletcher Stack tries to pin the sin on the sailor

Sticking with the numbers theme, there are five kinds of Mormons, according to SLT columnist Robert Kirby.

Y humble aggregator,

Daniel Burke

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