Monthly Archives: October 2007
Mark Rasmussen bio
By cmcmorri — October 16, 2007
Mark Rasmussen is an undergraduate fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. A religion major and member of the Trinity College class of 2009 from London, he is an editorial assistant for Religion in the News magazine.
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Ottawa Anglicans approve same-sex blessings TORONTO (RNS) The Ottawa diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada has approved same-sex marriage blessings in a move sure to inflame tensions in the worldwide Anglican Communion in the debate over gay rights. Voting Saturday (Oct. 13) by a margin of 177 to 97, […]
Spiritual counseling goes to the dogs
By RNS Blog Editor — October 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BAY VILLAGE, Ohio _ There was a lot of heavy panting going on in front of St. Raphael Catholic Church earlier this month. But only after participants had rubbed noses and sniffed one another all over. Every pooch had its day at the animal blessing service at St. Raphael, where […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: And the `Noble Prizes’ go to …
By Doug Mendenhall — October 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The October Madness of Nobel Prize season is finally over. These prizes have been a big deal since Alfred Nobel thought them up in 1901. They’re an especially big deal to the lucky winners, who collect 10 million Swedish Kroner apiece _ easily enough to buy several Volvos plus […]
Evangelicals look overseas to global concerns
By Adelle M. Banks — October 13, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service ARLINGTON, Va. _ When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addressed U.S. evangelical leaders in an historic forum on Thursday (Oct. 11), there was nervousness on all sides. There was long-held skepticism among some religious conservatives about the world body. Meanwhile, some evangelicals were ready to make a bold step in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 13, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Friends say Mother Teresa’s darkness was a test of faith LATROBE, Pa. (RNS) To the people who knew and loved Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the darkness she wrote about in her memoirs was not a crisis of faith, but a trial of her faith. “When people see the story of […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: Peace and justice at home and abroad
By Matthew Berger — October 13, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a December 2002 interview on the BBC, Burmese pro-democracy and spiritual leader Aung San Suu Kyi dared everyone to do a simple thing: Do not support injustice. “If (the people of Burma) know that something is wrong, if they know that something is unjust,” challenged Suu Kyi, they […]
Catholics look for signs in sky above N.J. shrine
By Jeff Diamant — October 13, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. _ About 3,500 people are expected to descend Saturday (Oct. 13) on an isolated Catholic shrine to celebrate the 90th anniversary of what they regard as a miracle: sightings of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, by three shepherd children in 1917. There’s some added buzz as […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Scholars say evangelicals and their votes are shifting WASHINGTON (RNS) The face of evangelicalism is changing, two authors at the Pew Research Center said Thursday (Oct. 11), and with that change comes uncertainty about who evangelicals will vote for in next year’s presidential election. Using the AIDS crisis as an […]
Armenian church leader supports `genocide’ resolution
By RNS Blog Editor — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congress considers legislation that brands the killings of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 “genocide,” the patriarch of the worldwide Armenian Church said Turkey’s resistance is “unacceptable.” His Holiness Karekin II, the spiritual leader of 7 million Armenian Christians, stopped in Washington during a month-long U.S. tour and […]
Bishop continues campaign as Vatican, Paraguay watch
By RNS Blog Editor — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service ASUNCION, Paraguay _ Bishop Fernando Lugo gathered his flock on a cold Saturday morning, and they came _ more than 600 mostly poor peasants _ to the rural city of Horqueta. Unlike many rallies in this impoverished country, it didn’t take threats or bribes of food and alcohol to get […]
Faith changed best-selling novelist’s world
By Nancy Haught — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, Wash. _ Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside Vancouver in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool. This is the house that Life Changing Fiction built. That’s her trademark, says the winner of the […]
COMMENTARY: McCain needs a refresher course in Constitution 101
By James Rudin — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Voters will soon decide whether Sen. John McCain will make history as the next president. But, it’s clear the Arizona Republican needs a refresher course on American constitutional history _ especially how and why our Republic was founded. In a recent interview with Beliefnet, McCain said he would “prefer […]
Literal Bible Living
By RNS Blog Editor — October 11, 2007
Man takes the Bible literally for a year-and lives to tell RNS’ Shona Crabtree profiles author A.J. Jacobs, who spent a year following 800 Biblical rules as literally as possible, in this week’s full-text article, linked above. Quote: Some rules proved more difficult than others. “I think there were two types of rules that were […]
COMMENTARY: The Communion wars, round 2
By Phyllis Zagano — October 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) So what is it with Catholics and politics? Or, more to the point, what is it with the Catholic bishops and Rudolph Giuliani? Catholic politicians from both parties _ John Kerry in 2004 and now, Giuliani in 2007 _ face media scrutiny that most candidates get to avoid. They […]
