Monthly Archives: October 2007
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Progressives, evangelicals pledge to `reason together’ WASHINGTON (RNS) Progressive and evangelical leaders called Wednesday (Oct. 10) for people in both camps to work together on issues that have long divided them. Third Way, a Washington-based progressive think tank, released “Come Let Us Reason Together,” a 44-page document suggesting ways to […]
Jewish students seek new ways to express an ancient faith
By Herbert G. McCann — October 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The sukkah tent outside George Washington University’s Hillel was crowded as Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Jewish students gathered to celebrate Sukkot, a holiday commemorating the 40 years Jews spent wandering in the desert. It was enough to make a Jewish grandmother proud, as the students attempted to continue […]
Mike Huckabee has one unique line on his resume: pastor
By Adelle M. Banks — October 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Years after he left the pulpit of Beech Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Ark., then-Gov. Mike Huckabee would pick up the phone with a pastoral touch. “He found out when my mom and dad died,” recalled Roger Booth, an electronics distributor and lifelong member of the Southern […]
10 Minutes With … Peggy Levitt
By Shona Crabtree — October 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Tired of the polarized rhetoric about immigrants, Peggy Levitt spent a decade researching four immigrant communities around Boston: Pakistani Muslims, Indian Hindus, Brazilian Protestants and Irish Catholics. What she found is that the immigrant vision of the good society and religion’s role in that society is not that different […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Mormons launch PR campaign after Romney stirs interest (RNS) Prompted by interest generated by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is mounting a campaign of its own to help journalists better understand it. On Tuesday (Oct. 2), two spokespeople for the Salt Lake City-based […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service New counselor to Mormon president chosen (RNS) One of the three top-ranking leaders of the world’s Mormons has been chosen for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Gordon B. Hinckley has selected Elder Henry B. Eyring, formerly a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, to […]
Man takes the Bible literally for a year _ and lives to tell
By RNS Blog Editor — October 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Imagine spending a year of your life without telling a single lie, coveting thy neighbor’s iPhone or touching women. Author A.J. Jacobs did all that and more _ stoning suspected adulterers with pebbles gathered in Central Park, worshipping with snake handlers at a Tennessee church, sacrificing chickens _ while […]
Atheists wonder if fellow troops got their backs
By Kristen Campbell — October 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ In the midst of their fight to bring freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan, some American soldiers say they are finding their own freedoms threatened by the troops on their own side. Though the U.S. Constitution mandates that the government apply no test of faith for employment (and […]
COMMENTARY: The will to survive
By Tom Ehrich — October 10, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service SOMEWHERE OVER MIDDLE AMERICA _ At the other end of this cross-country flight waits a congregation that is eager to get moving again. In recent years, like many mainline congregations, they have experienced some decline in membership, a weakening of financial stability, and a vague but troubling loss of clarity […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Diocese Asks Priests to Help Pay Abuse Settlement (RNS) The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is asking parishioners and priests to help pay for the nearly $200 million sexual abuse settlement it reached last month. As part of a new campaign, priests will be asked to contribute one month’s […]
Conservatives Serious About to Threat to Bolt Giuliani GOP
By Bruce Alpert — October 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Tony Perkins, the president of the powerful Family Research Council, said he wasn’t joking when he and other social conservatives threatened to back a third-party candidate for president if Rudolph Giuliani wins the Republican nomination _ even if it helps elect Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton. “For some of […]
Christian Men, Fewer but Still Fervent, Gather on National Mall
By RNS Blog Editor — October 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In numbers that were far fewer but with a faith that was nonetheless fervent, evangelical Christian men gathered in the shadow of the Washington Monument on Saturday (Oct. 6) for a day of spiritual renewal that recalled a much larger meeting of a decade ago. The Stand in […]
Study: Young People See Christians as Judgmental, Anti-Gay
By RNS Blog Editor — October 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Young people have graded Christianity, and so far, the report card doesn’t look good. Majorities of young people in America describe modern-day Christianity as judgmental, hypocritical and anti-gay. What’s more, many Christians don’t even want to call themselves “Christian” because of the baggage that accompanies the label. A new […]
A Red Light At the Corner of Faith and Action
By RNS Blog Editor — October 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It was late at night, I was driving home from covering a game for the newspaper. I was at a red light. I looked to my left _ no one. I looked to my right. I was sitting at the light, wanting to make a right turn. Only there […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 6, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service U.S. Muslims Hail Ramadan Resolution as Symbol of Acceptance (RNS) U.S. Muslims are welcoming a congressional resolution commemorating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as an important, if symbolic, sign that they are gaining acceptance in America. Still, conservatives critics say the resolution is an exercise in political correctness. Congress […]
