c. 2008 Religion News Service Lutherans find no consensus on homosexuality (RNS) A long-awaited draft statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America shies from taking a position on homosexuality, saying the church has yet to reach consensus on the matter. Current ELCA policies, which bar non-celibate homosexual clergy, are not discussed in the draft […]

c. 2007 Religion News Service SAN DIEGO _ Madonna may be Kabbalah’s most visible non-Jewish exponent, but she’s hardly the only one. Globally, more non-Jews than Jews are studying Judaism’s once-secret mystical tradition, experts say, prompting a growing debate among Jewish scholars and religious leaders over the appropriateness of the rapidly spreading phenomenon. Some worry […]

c. 2006 Religion News Service Catholic Publisher Yanks Pop Singer’s CDs After Racy Skits (RNS) Producers of pop singer Charlotte Church’s talk show never intended to broadcast a scene that has outraged religious groups, but that’s not enough to redeem the singer in the eyes of least one distributor. The racy skits so angered Roman […]

c. 2006 Religion News Service U.S. Church Leaders Decry `Idolatrous’ War of `Terror’ in Iraq (RNS) U.S. church leaders attending a World Council of Churches Assembly have issued a written lament for not preventing a U.S war in Iraq that has brought “terror” to the vulnerable while enlisting God in a way that is “nothing […]