Monthly Archives: April 2006
Religious Leaders Join Immigration Protests
By RNS Blog Editor — April 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As hundreds of thousands of people flooded the nation’s cities Monday (April 10) demonstrating for immigrants’ rights, religious leaders rallied at their side. On the Mall in Washington, with the Capitol behind him, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick prayed in Spanish and English for the tens of thousands of […]
COMMENTARY: One PowerPoint Slide Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
By Tom Ehrich — April 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a compartmentalized, PowerPoint world, one stand-alone slide would be the autumn Saturday in my junior year at Williams College when I stood beside a bus carrying freshman girls from Skidmore College. As they exited the bus for a mixer, I selected eight attractive girls for the freshmen boys […]
Ohio Religious Conservatives Mobilize, Come Under Scrutiny
By RNS Blog Editor — April 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service LANCASTER, Ohio _ The Ohio Restoration Project has attracted plenty of attention _ and not just for the zeal of its leader, the Rev. Russell Johnson of Lancaster’s Fairfield Christian Church. The New York Times, USA Today, The American Prospect, National Public Radio and HBO, among others, all have come […]
Immigration protests; “Righteous” gentiles; the Ohio Restoration Project
By RNS Blog Editor — April 12, 2006
Religious leaders are participating in immigration protests across the country, reports Piet Levy in Tuesday’s RNS report: As hundreds of thousands of people flooded the nation’s cities Monday (April 10) protesting for immigrants’ rights, religious leaders rallied by their side. On the Mall in Washington, with the Capitol behind him, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick prayed […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Bishop Assails Removal of Catholic Nuns From Leprosy Hospital in India (RNS) Christian leaders in India are protesting a decision by the pro-Hindu state government of Gujarat to terminate a contract with Catholic nuns who had run a leprosy hospital for more than 50 years. “There is absolutely no reason […]
Reality TV Series Focuses on Men Who Could Be Catholic Priests
By RNS Blog Editor — April 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Always fraught with difficult choices, the call to the Catholic priesthood becomes a mini-drama of men struggling within themselves and within an increasingly secularized world in the A&E network series “God or the Girl,” which begins Easter Sunday (April 16). “It’s going to put a human face on the […]
`Gospel of Judas’ Hardly `Threatens to Change Religious History’
By By David Gibson — April 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) So it turns out Judas Iscariot wasn’t such a bad guy after all. An ancient document called the Gospel of Judas, a tattered, 26-page papyrus text from the second or third century, has now been published after spending the last 20 years cycling through the international antiquities bazaar, and […]
COMMENTARY: `War on Terror’ Brings an Iraq More Hospitable to Islamic Fundamentalism
By RNS Blog Editor — April 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The president has told us over and over again that the goal in the so-called “war on terror” is to bring freedom to foreigners. Once free, however, what do these foreigners want to do? To cut the heads off Christians, that’s what. Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity, […]
God or the Girl; Gospel of Judas
By RNS Blog Editor — April 11, 2006
In Monday’s RNS report, Cecile S. Holmes looks at a new A&E series that depicts the struggle of men who could be priests: Always fraught with difficult choices, the call to the Catholic priesthood becomes a minidrama of men struggling within themselves and within an increasingly secularized world in the Arts and Entertainment Network’s series, […]
Episcopalians Cautioned on Electing Gay Bishops
By Kein Eckstrom — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As Episcopalians in San Francisco consider two gay men and a lesbian to serve as their next bishop, a special churchwide panel is urging “very considerable caution” before electing another gay bishop. A 14-member panel declined Friday (April 7) to recommend an outright ban on gay bishops, but said […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service British Judge Rules for `Da Vinci Code’ Author LONDON (RNS) Britain’s High Court ruled Friday (April 7) that author Dan Brown did not plagiarize and breach the copyright of an earlier book in writing his global best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code.” Two of the three authors of “The Holy […]
Bush Finds Friendly Audience at Catholic Prayer Breakfast
By Piet Levy — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ For the second year in a row, the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday (April 7) scored one of the hottest invites in town _ President Bush. Well, perhaps the second-hottest invite. At last year’s breakfast, the event’s vice president, Austin Ruse, joked that the pope would make […]
Ukrainian Easter Egg Evolved Over Time
By RNS Blog Editor — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Forget the chicken. This time of year, the conundrum of the egg is enough to leave humans and fowls scratching their heads: What came first, the Easter or the Ukrainian Easter egg? This city’s Ukrainian Museum-Archives has cracked the answer. No offense to hens, but hatching an egg […]
Another Edgy Ad for United Church of Christ, But Where’s the Beef?
By RNS Blog Editor — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Think back. Some of history’s most memorable TV commercials turned on the simplest connection between intent and concept. Who could have predicted that Clara Peller, a 4-foot-11 octogenarian, would achieve advertising immortality by asking, endlessly, “Where’s the beef?” on behalf of Wendy’s? We won’t know for a while whether […]
COMMENTARY: Are You a Closet Heretic?
By James Martin — April 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Many American Christians might be “closet heretics.” If you ask most Christians if they believe that Jesus was divine, you should get a resounding yes. They believe in the miracles, in the authority of his preaching, and, most of all, in the Resurrection. (For the record, so do I.) […]
