Monthly Archives: June 2006
Rev. Bob Edgar commenting on the AIDS crisis
By Tracy Gordon — June 10, 2006
Quote of the Day: National Council of Churches General Secretary Bob Edgar “Let us learn the lessons of silence. Let us learn the sin of omission can contribute to the deaths of our sisters and brothers. Let us commit to stopping this killer disease for the sake of God’s world, God’s creation and God’s people.” […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 10, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service McCarrick Says Church Could `Live With’ Civil Unions WASHINGTON (RNS) Outgoing Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said this week (June 7) that the Catholic Church “can live with” civil unions between homosexual couples “in order to protect their right to take care of each other.” McCarrick, 76, is retiring this summer after […]
Religion and Film: What Would Jesus Direct?
By Carl Anderson — June 10, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ There is a lot of buzz these days in both religious and Hollywood circles that a new relationship is being forged between faith and film. Is it for real? Or is it just a lot of hype? Michael Flaherty, president of Walden Media, a partner with Walt […]
Loosened Family Ties Haunt Aging Baby Boomers
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At first, the only thing setting the earliest baby boomers apart was their sheer number. They acted much like their parents’ generation when it came to life’s milestones. By age 20, nearly half of the first wave of boomers were married. Once married, they started having children. The similarity […]
Episcopalians Take Rocky Road to Ohio for Landmark Conference
By Daniel Burke — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Fudge, that most sticky confection, is an apt metaphor for the state of the Episcopal Church, according to the Rev. Susan Russell. So apt, in fact, that Russell, who heads an advocacy group for gay and lesbian Episcopalians, may bring a batch to the denomination’s General Convention to be […]
For Roy Moore Supporters, It Might Not Be `No,’ but Maybe `Not Now’
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ In the early 1980s, an obscure lawyer from Gadsden, Ala., disheartened by his loss in a hard-fought local judicial race, took to the road to learn kickboxing in Texas and herd cattle in Australia. That footloose attorney was Roy Moore and, on another level, his travels were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service U.S. Muslim Leaders Welcome Death of Al-Zarqawi (RNS) American Muslims on Thursday (June 8) welcomed the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose radical Islamic forces have wreaked havoc in Iraq, but they remained split over whether the United States and its allies should stay in the war-torn nation. […]
Gay Marriage Amendment Dies in Senate
By Daniel Burke — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage died in the Senate on Wednesday (June 7) despite intense pressure from President Bush, prominent religious leaders and a host of conservative activists. The amendment, which would have limited marriage in the United States to `only the union of a man […]
Familiar Words of Catholic Mass Face Changes by Bishops: With optional trim to 600 words
By Daniel Burke — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When the nation’s Catholic bishops convene in Los Angeles next week (June 15-17), they will consider a new translation of the Mass that could usher a legion of changes into prayers spoken by a generation of American Catholics. “They are very significant changes,” said Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, […]
COMMENTARY: Being Ourselves and Finding Our Identity
By Frances Kennedy — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The movie version of “The Da Vinci Code” came in like a low tide of religiosity. It was followed almost immediately by the low-grade tsunami of mystical prediction that the biblical 666 beast was coming on 6/6/06. Both events proved too shallow for a hurried baptism, much less total […]
Presbyterians to Consider Divestment, Gay Clergy Rules
By Greg Garrison — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Several tense issues are boiling to the surface for the Presbyterian Church (USA) as the denomination prepares for its General Assembly, set for June 15-22 here. The nation’s largest Presbyterian body has lost 1.8 million members since 1965. The Louisville, Ky.-based denomination recently announced a loss of […]
COMMENTARY: A Line That Must Not Be Crossed
By RNS Blog Editor — June 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As an Air Force chaplain stationed in Asia, I often visited the Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Facility near Hiroshima, where I was constantly reminded by officials of several things: Marines do not hate our enemies. Dehumanizing an adversary damages fighting abilities. We are professional warriors, not murderers. We know […]
Rift Opens Among Evangelicals on AIDS Funding
By Daniel Burke — June 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and religious broadcaster Pat Robertson may concur on many things, but one thing they do not agree on is how the U.S. government spends money to fight AIDS. As the world marks 25 years since HIV and AIDS first appeared, a […]
Looking for good to come out of evil
By Tracy Gordon — June 8, 2006
Quote of the Day: Wedgwood Baptist Church Pastor Al Meredith “Fort Worth’s greatest crime scene is also the site of one of her greatest miracles. The Darkness sought to shut us down, but the Light shines ever brigher and ever stronger and will not be extinguished.” -Al Meredith, senior pastor of Wedgwood Baptist Church in […]
The Hard Line
By RNS Blog Editor — June 8, 2006
Vigorous Campaign Helps Catholic Church Defeat Abuse Laws The Catholic Church has taken “a more hard-line approach” to fighting states’ attempts to extend the statute of limitations in abuse case, according to this week’s RNS full-text article, linked above. Quote: According to church lobbyists, a more aggressive stance-along with assistance from the insurance industry and […]
