Frank Jack Daniel
Frank Jack Daniel is an author at Religion News Service.
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In parting shot, Obama prods India on religious freedom
By Frank Jack Daniel — January 27, 2015
NEW DELHI (RNS) Obama's speech was widely interpreted as a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party, whose rise to power emboldened activists to declare India a nation of Hindus.
Black liberation theology takes direct aim at racism
By Frank Jack Daniel — March 22, 2008
c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday (March 18) urged America to overcome its troubled racial history, starting with the “original sin” of slavery whose effects are still felt in modern-day inequality between blacks and whites. He also tried to overcome the racially charged comments of his former pastor, […]
Chicago cardinal elected president of bishops conference
By Frank Jack Daniel — November 14, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BALTIMORE _ The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Cardinal Francis George of Chicago as its next president Tuesday (Nov. 13), choosing a Vatican veteran to lead the bishops’ conference through deep cuts in staff and mission. George, who was elected by 85 percent of the bishops meeting here this […]
Two Years Later, Trumpeter Searches for `God’s Will’ in Katrina
By Frank Jack Daniel — August 24, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Two years after Hurricane Katrina, it may be that one of the most searching spiritual responses to the deluge and disaster has come not from a theologian but an acclaimed jazz musician. Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Terence Blanchard’s new CD, “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem […]
For Whom the Bell Tolls: By MISSY DANIEL
By Frank Jack Daniel — November 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) This year marks the sixth Veterans Day since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the fourth since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Churches around the country will join national observances with the usual services and music to salute the armed forces and to recognize the […]
Marilynne Robinson on Theology and Fiction
By Frank Jack Daniel — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Gilead” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23) is about the Rev. John Ames, a Congregational minister in Iowa who in 1956 begins writing a letter to his young son, an account of himself and forebears. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics […]
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By Frank Jack Daniel — June 12, 2004
c. 2003 Religion and Ethics Newsweekly WASHINGTON _ William Martin, professor of religion and public policy at Rice University, and the author of “With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America,” talked with Religion and Ethics Newsweekly about Ronald Reagan, religion and politics: Q. What is the significance of Ronald […]
NEWS STORY: Susan Pace Hamill: `Tax Justice Has a Great Effect on Poverty
By Frank Jack Daniel — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Susan Pace Hamill, a University of Alabama law professor and former IRS attorney, is widely credited with sparking the movement for tax reform in Alabama based on Judeo-Christian ethics. In an interview with “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly,” the PBS television show, Hamil discusses how she came to her view […]
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