Monthly Archives: November 2008
NEXT WEEK’S COLUMNISTS
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
Religion shaped 2008 in big, dramatic ways
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
History’s most notorious rude host lost to history
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
Ready for Armageddon, Church Retails to the Masses
By Kevin Eckstrom — November 26, 2008
Scrambling to stay current as it reaches its 50th anniversary, the Church Universal and Triumphant has transformed itself into a New Age publishing enterprise and spiritual university. But still in the background is its “insurance” against the end _ the shelter buried beneath a hillside on the sect’s 7,500 acre Royal Teton Ranch.
Boys returned to families as abuse investigation continues
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
ONEONTA, Ala. (RNS) Eleven juveniles who had been at a faith-based home for troubled boys have been returned to their parents and guardians while a probe continues into charges of abuse at the facility. The boys, who had lived at Reclamation Ranch Ministries’ Lighthouse Academy, were the subject of a court hearing to determine if […]
Alleged church shooter sought anonymity in Ga. town
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
Alleged church shooter sought anonymity in Ga. town NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) After gunning down his wife, her cousin and a would-be rescuer in a Clifton, N.J., church, Joseph Pallipurath dumped his pistol, abandoned his Jeep and stepped aboard a bus with the hopes of fading into obscurity, said authorities who nabbed the accused fugitive early […]
More Mormon Prop. 8 Blowback
By Mark Silk — November 26, 2008
Rick Hertzberg gives the LDS Church a pop in the current New Yorker, but the big news is that the state of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating the church for allegedly neglecting to report “a battery of nonmonetary contributions — including phone banks, a Web site and commercials” in its effort to drum […]
The GOP Civil War
By Mark Silk — November 26, 2008
What to make of the Recipe for Republican Recovery advanced today on Politico by Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant governor who wants to be RNC chair? Here’s the nut: Ronald Reagan spoke to our deepest longing as a people. He gave a voice to principles that are true for all people in all times. […]
Hindus find new faiths in marriage
By Tracy Gordon — November 26, 2008
NEWARK, N.J.-Jeff Diamant talks with Hindu families about shifting marriage customs as American-born children of Indian immigrant parents increasingly opt to marry outside the faith.
Study suggests worship services reduces risk of death
By Tracy Gordon — November 26, 2008
JERUSALEM -Regularly attending religious services may significantly reduce the risk of death, according to a comprehensive study by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
School allows American Indian boy to keep hair braided
By Tracy Gordon — November 26, 2008
SLIDELL, La.-An American Indian boy who wears his hair in a braid as part of a religious custom will be allowed to remain at his school after school officials reversed an earlier decision that the child would have to cut his hair or wear his braid in a bun.
N.J. church searches for answers after fatal shootings
By Tracy Gordon — November 26, 2008
CLIFTON, N.J. -Dennis John Malloosseril didn’t know the man shouting in the church vestibule had a gun, friends said, but he knew the disturbance was disrupting services at St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church on Sunday (Nov. 23).
COMMENTARY: Let’s cut to the chase, shall we?
By Tom Ehrich — November 26, 2008
I doubt that much sleep was lost, in heaven or an earth, when the tiny Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, Ill., voted to secede from the national Episcopal Church for being too liberal. Even so, Quincy’s debate over leaving the national denomination was illuminating. The debate’s final speaker is quoted as saying, “We need to make […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 26, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service N.J. church searches for answers after fatal shootings CLIFTON, N.J. (RNS) Dennis John Malloosseril didn’t know the man shouting in the church vestibule had a gun, friends said, but he knew the disturbance was disrupting services at St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church on Sunday (Nov. 23). Then, according to […]
