Monthly Archives: March 2015
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Gays, remarried Catholics, murderers are all the same
By David Gibson — March 27, 2015
(RNS) The Catholic Church has always taught that sin is sin, but few people see killing someone as equivalent to marrying a lifelong same-sex partner.
If you don’t like Mormonism, why don’t you leave?
By Jana Riess — March 27, 2015
People often ask Mormon novelist Mette Harrison why she sticks with the LDS Church even if she has some problems with it. "I believe in the principle of conversation and compromise," she says.
Religious Leaders Urge Sen. Ted Cruz to Make Hunger and Poverty a Priority
By Religion News LLC — March 27, 2015
Washington, D.C., – The Circle of Protection today asked Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to record a video telling Americans what he would do to help hungry and poor people if elected. “We are praying for a president who will make ending hunger and poverty a top priority of his or her administration. Are you […]
New Islamic art exhibits planned to counter Islam’s militant image
By Reuters — March 27, 2015
A foundation is funding two new galleries at the British Museum at a time when historic sites in Iraq are under attack by militants of the Islamic State.
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee backs a new report which describes animal experiments as morally ‘unthinkable’
By Religion News LLC — March 27, 2015
More than a hundred and fifty academics, intellectuals, and writers, including Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, have backed a new report calling for the de-normalisation of animal experimentation. Titled ‘Normalising the Unthinkable’, the report is the result of a working party of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Other signatories to the report include the […]
White supremacist, charged with killing three at a Jewish center, heads to court
By Reuters — March 27, 2015
Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 74, faces murder charges. None of his victims in the Overland Park, Kansas, killings were Jewish.
Millennials are the ‘don’t judge generation’ on sexual morality: Survey
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 27, 2015
(RNS) Most young adults hold views on moral issues that are a long way from what some major religions preach on issues such as abortion and contraception.
TV’s ‘Dig’ unrolls a Dead Sea Scroll to unravel a conspiracy
By Kimberly Winston — March 26, 2015
(RNS) What do you get when you combine end-of-the-world scenarios with biblical archaeology in a television action series? "Dig" continues to mix fact and fiction.
Southern Baptist race summit calls for focus on reconciliation
By Heidi Hall — March 26, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Russell Moore said the work of racial reconciliation isn’t just for people whose “bedsheets have eyeholes,” he said, referring to the Ku Klux Klan. It’s for articulate people whose racism finds expression in complex and indirect ways.
How the church perpetuates the ‘gay lifestyle’
By Eliel Cruz — March 26, 2015
Why are some Christians always talking about sex?
Disciples look to pull convention from Indiana over religious freedom bill
By Lauren Markoe — March 26, 2015
(RNS) The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) threatens to pull its convention out of Indianapolis after the governor signs a controversial religious freedom bill.
Why evangelicals are divided by afterlife testimonials (COMMENTARY)
By Aaron Griffith — March 26, 2015
(RNS) If nothing else, the persistence of a divided evangelical mind in regards to afterlife testimonials should remind us that there is no such thing as a monolithic evangelicalism in America.
Is Indiana’s law a win for religious freedom or a loss for LGBT rights? Five questions you need to ask
By Tobin Grant — March 26, 2015
Sometimes the text of a law has nothing to do with the politics that surrounds it.
A definitive guide to evangelical lingo, part 2
By Laura Turner — March 26, 2015
Evangelical lingo, part 2: I'm just humbled to be so raw and messy in sharing my God-shaped hole with you.
Church of England loses no time, appoints third woman bishop and first to oversee a diocese
By Trevor Grundy — March 26, 2015
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Rachel Treweek will be the first to run a diocese on her own. She will be one rank below archbishop and will become the first woman bishop to sit in the House of Lords, the British Parliament’s Upper House.
