Monthly Archives: April 2015
LGBT Kenyans gain the right to organize, and churches promise to fight
By Fredrick Nzwili — April 29, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The nation's highest court ruled that refusing to register a gay rights organization infringed on the constitutional rights of free association for LGBT Kenyans.
First diplomat for LGBT rights speaks out
By Oren Dorell — April 29, 2015
WASHINGTON -- In his trailblazing role at the State Department, Randy Berry says, he has an opportunity to help his two children grow up in a world more accepting than the one he was born into.
Why Rachel Held Evans’ book ‘Searching for Sunday’ brought me to tears
By Eliel Cruz — April 29, 2015
She poured her soul as ink on the pages of her new book – and I saw my own story there.
Vatican kicks off environmental push with climate change summit
By Doyle Rice — April 29, 2015
"The wealthiest countries, the ones who have benefited most from fossil fuels, are morally obligated to push forward and find solutions to climate-related change and so protect the environment and human life," Cardinal Peter Turkson said.
Are Christians dead wrong about the execution of Jesus Christ?
By Jonathan Merritt — April 29, 2015
"Jesus did not teach that God’s wrath burns against us but that God loves us," says theologian Tony Jones. He argues that the traditional Christian view of atonement was largely a medieval invention.
Syrian Catholic leader pleads with US Christians not to forget his threatened church
By David Gibson — April 29, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) “We are in grave danger; we may disappear soon,” Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart said in trying to keep one of the world's original Christian communities from vanishing.
Supreme Court debates same-sex marriage without mentioning religion — except for 20 seconds from a protestor
By Tobin Grant — April 29, 2015
Public debate over marriage and sexuality is often framed in religious language. That's not how the court will decide the issue.
The case against same-sex marriage
By Mark Silk — April 29, 2015
As argued in the Supreme Court yesterday, it's less than persuasive.
Religious refusal to bake for a gay wedding may cost bakery $135,000
By Reuters — April 29, 2015
A judge ordered Sweet Cakes owners to pay damages for violating Oregon's anti-discrimination law.
Most GOP 2016 hopefuls would go to a loved one’s same-sex wedding
By Reuters — April 29, 2015
A new survey suggests Republicans who are strongly opposed to gay marriage could be on shaky political ground in the presidential race.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Catholic journalist and longtime bishops’ spokeswoman, dies at 68
By David Gibson — April 28, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a quiet nun with a keen wit who led a very public life as a journalist and a longtime spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, died on Tuesday (April 28) after a tough battle with cancer.
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
By Religion News LLC — April 28, 2015
Murders of unarmed black people—most recently Freddie Gray in Baltimore and including children and teens such as Tamir Rice, 12, and Trayvon Martin, 17—and the frequency of the killers getting away with it, are the ugly fruit of America’s Stand Your Ground culture. In her new book Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice […]
Citing lack of funding, New York’s Museum of Biblical Art to close
By David Van Biema — April 28, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) MOBIA’s fate was not a total surprise: The Bible Society, once MOBIA’s sole funder, had been ramping down its support. But the closing nonetheless deeply rattled those who treasured MOBIA as one of the few museums that routinely acknowledged art's religious context.
Colliding visions of marriage at the Supreme Court (ANALYSIS)
By Kevin Eckstrom — April 28, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the Supreme Court finally took up the vexing question of same-sex marriage, the case came down to two competing visions of marriage: what it's been, what it should be, and who gets to decide.
PHOTOS: Gay marriage supporters and opponents on Supreme Court steps
By Kevin Eckstrom — April 28, 2015
Supporters of gay marriage easily outnumbered opponents, who were drowned out by shouts of "Love Must Win!" and "Marriage Now!"
