Monthly Archives: July 2006
Online Store Offers Music Sans Sex and Swearing
By Calvin Woodward — July 7, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Imagine rap lyrics without the F-bomb. Or acid rock lyrics without sex. Or reggae lyrics without drugs. Howard Rachinski imagined it all last year, when his then-10-year-old son began to get interested in music. Although Apple’s iTunes and other commercial music-download sites offered plenty of Christian and other inoffensive […]
Bad Rap/Good Rap
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2006
Transformed Rapper Spreads Gospel Michael Heaton interviews Kevin Beebe, a rapper who had a religious conversion while in jail, and who is now training for the ministry, in this week’s full-text RNS article, linked above. Quote: Q: Are you serious about a career as a rapper? A: Yes and no. I’m attending Mount Vernon Nazarene […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Nigerian Church Calls Episcopal Church a `Cancerous Lump’ (RNS) The Anglican Church in Nigeria has compared the Episcopal Church _ its liberal counterpart in the United States _ to “a cancerous lump” that “should be excised” from the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Tuesday (July 4) statement from the Anglican Church […]
Questions and Answers From a Bishop in the Spotlight
By Nancy Haught — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, recently elected leader of the Episcopal Church, is back in Nevada, adjusting to her new role. She isn’t the only one. Her selection _ as a woman, a second-career priest, a bishop from a Western diocese and a supporter of gay ordinations _ has shaken […]
Largest Kosher Slaughterhouse Comes Under Scrutiny
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ An investigation by a leading Jewish newspaper has uncovered abusive working conditions at America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, a facility that was already under investigation for the unethical treatment of livestock. Now, two Conservative Jewish organizations have created a task force to investigate the abuses and what they […]
Cowboy Churches Have Wide-Ranging Appeal
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEWBURY TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ Mamas who let their babies grow up to be cowboys have one less thing to worry about. Cowboy churches are galloping across the nation, providing a spiritual home in stables, riding arenas and other open spaces where some country folk like to congregate. And not just […]
For One Cowboy Church, Baptizing Near the Broncos Wasn’t So Easy
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) For more than a month, storage items collected dust where an altar once stood inside a Bedford County, Va., barn where a cowboy church had met on Thursday nights. Local officials had prohibited a fledgling church from holding worship services in the barn due to zoning restrictions relating to […]
COMMENTARY: Why the Bishops Don’t Want You to Read This Book
By Frances Kennedy — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) More than two years ago, Wilton Gregory, the then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, claimed the clergy sex abuse scandal was “history.” Gregory was saying, in effect, that Catholics didn’t have to worry about it anymore and it was safe for their children to become altar servers […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: It’s Getting Hard to Tell the Christians From the Lions
By James Martin — July 6, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The description of a special method of torture that U.S. soldiers inflicted on Iraqi prisoners was instantly familiar. As someone who has read many histories of the Christian martyrs, it didn’t take long to remember where the brand of punishment had been used before. “Other detainees were locked for […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 5, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Cardinal Says Stem Cell Researchers Don’t Deserve Communion VATICAN CITY (RNS) Roman Catholic doctors and researchers involved in stem cell research are unfit to receive Communion, a top Vatican cardinal declared Wednesday (June 28). The comments appeared to step up the Vatican’s opposition to stem cell research _ a stance […]
Gospel Singer Stirs the Jewish Soul
By RNS Blog Editor — July 1, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Joshua Nelson doesn’t want to hear the Sammy Davis Jr. jokes. He’s heard them all. “I actually used to get offended by them. People would say, `Oh, you’re a black Jew, just like Sammy Davis, right?”’ Nelson said. “That fact is that I didn’t convert to Judaism. I was […]
Transformed Rapper Spreads Gospel
By RNS Blog Editor — July 1, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Christian rapper Kevin Beebe wouldn’t mind some media attention for his new CD, “Spiritual Warfare.” But forgive him if he’s wary. He wasn’t a Christian two years ago when he distributed his first CD, “Straight From the Grave,” by putting it on the windshields of cars in the parking […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 1, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Secret Files of Prewar Pope to Be Released VATICAN CITY (RNS) The secret files of Pope Pius XI, who reigned until the start of World War II, will be released from the Vatican archives in mid-September, the Holy See announced Friday (June 30). The files, which cover Pius XI’s tenure […]
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