Christ Herlinger
Christ Herlinger is an author at Religion News Service.
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Tony Blair reflects on his newest title: teacher
By Christ Herlinger — December 16, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ To the chapters of a life of a one-time prime minister and now freelance diplomat, add one more: Mr. Blair Goes to Yale. Fresh off his first year as a guest lecturer on faith and globalization at Yale University, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair got […]
Iraqi refugees cautiously hopeful about Obama administration
By Christ Herlinger — December 5, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service DAMASCUS, Syria _ With his decidedly Middle Eastern middle name and his status as the first American president of African descent, Barack Hussein Obama has captured the world’s imagination, if not its heart. Just ask people like Milad Kaktoma, a 24-year-old Iraqi refugee who fled the chaos of his homeland […]
Disputed dinner fails to deliver on dialogue
By Christ Herlinger — September 27, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dined with 300 religious and political leaders Thursday night (Sept. 26), but the event that drew condemnation and protest offered far less dialogue than advertised. What was promised as a discussion of how religion can contribute to solving global problems turned into an […]
Carroll probes Christianity’s violent past in new film
By Christ Herlinger — April 18, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ It’s not a question that many like to ask, and to some it may seem impolitic it in the midst of an American papal visit _ namely, what are the ties between religion and violence, specifically Christianity and violence? But that’s the question film director Oren Jacoby […]
Polish priest wins 2008 Templeton prize
By Christ Herlinger — March 13, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Michael (Michal) Heller, a Polish cosmologist and Roman Catholic priest whose commitment to combining the insights of science and religion stretches back to his youth in war-torn Europe, has won the 2008 Templeton Prize. The $1.6 million award is the largest annual monetary prize given to a […]
French filmmakers look at faith through eyes of religious leaders
By Christ Herlinger — December 20, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Those accustomed to viewing only the public face of the world’s religious leaders will see a welcome surprise in a new documentary to be broadcast Sunday (Dec. 23) on CBS. “In God’s Name” includes the sight of Pope Benedict XVI watching television in his private quarters like […]
Liberal Protestant Icons Post `Help Wanted’ Signs
By Christ Herlinger — August 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ When the Rev. Bob Edgar announced that he was stepping down as head of the National Council of Churches, someone suggested that he might apply for the soon-to-be-vacant pulpit across the street at the historic Riverside Church. “But Bob,” his wife told him, “you only have one […]
Asian Christians Take Scriptural Themes to Art
By Christ Herlinger — July 25, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ If Nalini Jayasuriya, Sawai Chinnawong, Nyoman Darsane, He Qi and Wisnu Sasongko are not household names in the Western art world, they are still better known in the West than in their own countries. These five contemporary Asian artists are all Christians, working as members of a […]
Play Tries to Bridge Divide Between Gays, Mormons
By Christ Herlinger — June 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Not many theater productions include a glossary of Mormon theological and ecclesiastical terms in the program. Then again, Carol Lynn Pearson’s play, “Facing East,” defies a number of expectations. Pearson’s somber but compassionate one-act portrayal of a Mormon family’s struggle to come to terms with the suicide […]
Canadian Charles Taylor Wins 2007 Templeton Prize
By Christ Herlinger — March 15, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher whose work has touched on questions of spirituality, violence and culture, was awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize on Wednesday (March 14). Taylor, 75, teaches law and philosophy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and is a professor emeritus at McGill University in […]
Exhibit Traces 20th Century Impact of Modern Religious Art
By Christ Herlinger — February 14, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The artistic giants of the 20th century _ the Andy Warhols, Jackson Pollacks and Pablo Picassos of the art world _ were known more for their modernist and abstract impulses than their depiction of religious themes. But does that tell the whole story of art in the […]
Author Probes Thanksgiving’s `Deep Religious Impulses’
By Christ Herlinger — November 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) With its celebration of bounty and goodwill, not to mention its endearing lack of commercialization, Thanksgiving may be the most beloved of American holidays. But is the Thanksgiving Americans celebrate today mere myth-making, resting on ahistorical stereotypes? Take the fabled turkey, for example. Did it even inhabit eastern Massachusetts […]
Artist Finds God on Gotham’s Mean Streets
By Christ Herlinger — August 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The mean streets of New York might not seem a likely place to discover the sacred. But amid the city’s fabled profane _ the grit of a boulevard or an underpass, the grime of a storefront sidewalk or a subway station _ the sacred exists. You just […]
NEWS STORY: Housed at a Terrorist Target, Church Carries on Its Work, Worship
By Christ Herlinger — August 6, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Long a landmark and destination because of its famous “jazz ministry” and its sleek, elegant modern architecture, Saint Peter’s Church in midtown Manhattan is now gaining unwanted attention because of its locale: It is surrounded by the Citigroup Center, one of a number of New York financial […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jazz Ministry Celebrates 30th Anniversary With All-Night Jam Session
By Christ Herlinger — October 18, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ It is a “Homecoming on Earth” _ a way for jazz musicians and fans alike to congregate and enjoy what one singer calls the closest thing to prayer known in music. “This is our little spiritual home for the jazz community,” said singer Nancie Banks during the […]
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