Nancy Haught
Nancy Haught is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Nancy Haught
Can hip-hop be holy? A Q&A with Monica Miller
By Nancy Haught — September 19, 2012
(RNS) Hip-hop's all the rage in universities and seminaries, and dozens of pop culture books have been written about using hip-hop to evangelize young people. But professor Monica R. Miller warns in her new book that looking for religion in hip-hop is a risky proposition. By Nancy Haught.
The Rev. Patrick Conroy, U.S. House chaplain, talks about conflict and his unusual congregation
By Nancy Haught — May 8, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) For nearly a year, the Rev. Patrick Conroy has been chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, which The New York Times called "one of the most reviled congregations in the country." By Nancy Haught.
Everyone’s got something to celebrate in December
By Nancy Haught — December 23, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If ever a month was made for celebrations, it’s December. Days are at their darkest in the Northern Hemisphere, and a ray of light holds promise _ whether it comes as a sliver of the sun, the Prince of Peace or an instant of enlightenment. Anthropologists think the winter […]
At this church, there’s always room at the inn
By Nancy Haught — November 26, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Eric Bahme no longer apologizes for being a preacher who keeps his eye on the bottom line. He is both a pastor and a businessman, he says, because that’s how God made him. “Within every single person, God plants a desire,” said Bahme, 45. “I was created […]
COMMENTARY: A breath of fresh air
By Nancy Haught — August 14, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Ever since Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., parted ways in May, churches across the country have been talking about race. The Rev. Linda Jaramillo, 60, is the executive minister of justice and witness ministries for the United Church of Christ […]
10 minutes with … Cara Ungar-Gutierrez
By Nancy Haught — August 7, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Cara Ungar-Gutierrez grew up in New York City in a Jewish home. Her family kept kosher, attended synagogue and observed the Sabbath. Her parents taught her the value of study, inquiry and following her conscience. Now 38, she’s a member of Congregation Havurah Shalom in Portland, and […]
10 minutes with … Mark MacDonald
By Nancy Haught — July 17, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Right Rev. Mark L. MacDonald, who was named last year as Canada’s first national indigenous bishop, is currently in England for a global meeting of Anglican bishops, eager to talk about an aboriginal take on Christianity. The Lambeth Conference, held every 10 years, includes hundreds of Anglican bishops […]
Buddhism by the numbers
By Nancy Haught — July 4, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Twenty-five centuries ago, the Buddha taught with lists. The Four Noble Truths. The Five Precepts. The Eightfold Path. These numbered lists helped his followers memorize and pass along his teachings orally for about 500 years before they were written down. For the curious observer, a beginning Buddhist, or even […]
Lutheran pastors explore relevant ministries to unchurched Northwest
By Nancy Haught — May 6, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service SKAMAKOWA, Wash. _ Answers. Pastors have them. Sometimes, though, they wrestle with questions. Especially in the unchurched Northwest. What does it mean to be spiritual but not religious? To be a minister in a place where salmon fishing is sacramental, and old-growth trees are cathedral spires? Seven Lutheran pastors went […]
Theologian who heralded the death of God ponders his own
By Nancy Haught — January 4, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ It was a quiet Sunday afternoon in 1938 when something went terribly wrong near young Bill Hamilton’s house. His teenage friends had been building pipe bombs. One, an Episcopalian, was dead. Another, a Catholic, lay on the grass fatally injured. And the third, the son of an […]
Churches push `Advent Conspiracy’ to teach real giving
By Nancy Haught — December 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Christmas contradiction gives Pastor Rick McKinley a headache. Americans will spend about $475 billion this year on gifts, decorations and parties that many won’t even remember next year. They will run themselves ragged _ shopping, wrapping and celebrating. And some won’t pay off their Christmas debt […]
Churches push `Advent Conspiracy’ to teach real giving
By Nancy Haught — November 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Christmas contradiction gives Pastor Rick McKinley a headache. Americans will spend about $475 billion this year on gifts, decorations and parties that many won’t even remember next year. They will run themselves ragged _ shopping, wrapping and celebrating. And some won’t pay off their Christmas debt […]
Faith changed best-selling novelist’s world
By Nancy Haught — October 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, Wash. _ Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside Vancouver in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool. This is the house that Life Changing Fiction built. That’s her trademark, says the winner of the […]
10 Minutes With … Ted Roberts
By Nancy Haught — September 20, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Rev. Ted Roberts moves, stands, even sits, with his back straight and his shoulders squared against the enemy. You expect that military bearing from a former fighter pilot-turned-pastor. You want that in a spiritual war against sexual addiction. Roberts, the former senior pastor of East Hill Church in […]
Churches Weigh Whether to Join Sanctuary Movement
By Nancy Haught — September 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Jean Bucciarelli remembers the Sunday last May when someone urged her congregation to become a sanctuary church _ to actively support illegal immigrants who want to stay in this country. “Someone said, `Let’s just do it,”’ she recalls. Some members of Ainsworth United Church of Christ were […]
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