Monthly Archives: August 2007
Report Says Pentagon Erred in Allowing Christian Video
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ High-ranking Army and Air Force personnel violated military regulations when they participated in a promotional video for a private evangelical organization, according to a report by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General. A Pentagon spokesman said Monday (Aug. 6) it would be up to the Army and Air […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Former Paris Cardinal, a Jewish Convert, Dies at 80 (RNS) Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish convert whose mother died in the Auschwitz concentration camp before he rose to become the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died Sunday (August 6) at the age of 80. The cause of death was an […]
Backup Singer Shares Elvis’ More Tender Gospel Side
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is known for anything, it might be the gyrating hips, the troubling addictions, the kitsch of Graceland. But the Elvis Presley remembered by Joe Moscheo, a gospel singer who sang backup vocals for Presley as a member of the Imperials, was a […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 4, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Gay N.H. Bishop Endorses Obama (RNS) The openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president, saying the Illinois Democrat can “bridge the old divides.” Bishop V. Gene Robinson emphasized that he was endorsing Obama as a private citizen and said he will not be […]
Artist, in Search of Inspiration, Finds it Inside
By Kristen Campbell — August 4, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Tres Taylor spent a long time searching for his purpose. Along the way there were travels to Australia and the Amazon, but, finally, after riding his bike around San Diego one day, he found it. He’d recently visited a few Southern folk artists while back home in Alabama for […]
Romney’s Faith Faces Uphill Fight in South Carolina
By RNS Blog Editor — August 3, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Can a Mormon win the White House? It’s a question on the minds of many voters watching former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney _ not to mention Romney’s campaign itself. But for the Romney camp, the more immediate question is whether Romney can conquer the South, a region where […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 3, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Toilet Company Turns the Other Cheek After Church Complains (RNS) The toilet company that burned the backside of a New York City megachurch with plans to post a billboard with naked buttocks on a building where the church rents space has replaced the ad with a less cheeky version. The […]
Lutherans to Open Sexuality Debate _ Again
By Daniel Burke — August 3, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination will again face the divisive issue of sexuality when it considers resolutions on gay clergy and same-sex blessings at its biennial assembly in Chicago next week (Aug. 8-12). After the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted at its last Churchwide Assembly in 2005 […]
COMMENTARY: The Dark Rooms of Ingmar Bergman’s Soul
By James Rudin — August 3, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It was fitting that Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director, died this week (July 30) at his home on bleak Faro Island in the harsh North Sea. The 89-year-old Bergman was personally and artistically obsessed with his cold lonely quest for God. Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Humanist Loses Case Over Voting in Churches (RNS) A judge ruled Tuesday (July 31) against a Humanist who said his constitutional rights were violated when he had to vote in a Catholic church adorned with religious icons and anti-abortion posters. Jerry Rabinowitz claimed he felt uncomfortable when he entered a […]
Cloning Our Way Toward Moral Disaster
By Phyllis Zagano — August 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I apologize if you are eating breakfast, but scientists have been mixing hamster eggs with human sperm in petri dishes for years. The so-called “hamster test” is used in fertility clinics; it measures the ability of the human sperm to penetrate a hamster egg. Fertilization proper does not occur. […]
10 Minutes With … Kate Braestrup
By Shona Crabtree — August 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) After the death of her husband, a Maine state trooper, author and mother-of-four Kate Braestrup became a Unitarian Universalist chaplain. She now works with the Maine Warden Service, a cadre of game wardens who enforce hunting and fishing laws and ensure public safety. Braestrup’s memoir about accompanying search-and-rescue missions […]
Religious Investing Gains More Clout
By Bridget MacDonald — August 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Religious activists with a moral agenda for corporate America used to rely primarily on consumer boycotts and sympathetic lawmakers to get the attention of Wall Street. But now their toolbox is growing _ and there’s a lot more money it. Over the past decade, America’s market for religious investment […]
Nostalgic Israelis Spur a Yiddish Renaissance
By Michele Chabin — August 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service TEL AVIV, Israel _ When Sibylle Hamann enrolled in the Yiddish summer program at Tel Aviv University, the 32-year-old graduate student from Germany looked forward to chatting up Israelis on the beach and in coffeehouses. But since her arrival in this unabashedly secular seaside city, Hamann has had trouble finding […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 1, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Ukrainian Catholics Protest Plans by U.S. Firm to Make Church a Casino (RNS) Ukrainian Catholics are fighting to stop a U.S.-owned company from turning a 19th-century church into a casino, according to international reports. Protesters inside St. Joseph’s church in Dnipropetrovsk were forcefully evicted before the roof and ceiling were […]
