Brian Donohue
Brian Donohue is an author at Religion News Service.
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Jim McGreevey’s redemption is the real deal
By Brian Donohue — March 29, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) I used to think Gov. Jim McGreevey was one of the most disingenuous phonies I had ever met. But his recent redemption after a public fall from grace is the real deal.
It’s a Buddha, All Right, But He’s Starved, Smuggled and Possibly Fake
By Brian Donohue — February 8, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ On a September morning in 2005, federal customs inspectors pried open a suspicious wooden crate labeled “decorative items” at the Newark airport and gazed at a gaunt 40-inch stone statue nestled in a bed of Styrofoam packing. The figure in some ways resembled a Buddha, but this […]
Next Step on N.J. Gay Marriage Is Up to Lawmakers
By Brian Donohue — October 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ Should New Jersey be the next Massachusetts? Or the next Vermont? State legislators now have 180 days to decide. The state’s top court on Wednesday (Oct. 25) took the thorny question of whether gay unions should be recognized as marriages and placed it squarely in the hands […]
Alleging Detainees Abused, Ex-Guantanamo Bay Chaplain Releases Detailed Book
By Brian Donohue — October 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) For James Yee, it has been a long silence. Arrested on suspicion of espionage in September 2003 and later exonerated, the former Muslim chaplain at the Guantanamo Bay prison remained under a military gag order until his honorable discharge earlier this year. Now Yee has written “For God and […]
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