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While heavy on processed drums, the disc makes for compelling listening....
Family tensions: The PCUSA and Palestine
Last summer the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) passed several resolutions that have distressed the American Jewish community....
A speech you didn't hear: The search for absolute security
Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a dangerous world. We don’t know whether, when or where terrorists will strike again....
Century Marks
Church discipline or politics? Two United Methodists from Iowa are trying to get fellow Methodists George Bush and Dick Cheney kicked out of church for their part in the war in Iraq....
Anglican disunion: The global response to a gay bishop
Finding ways to live together amid disagreement has long been an Anglican ideal....
Gay bishop, Episcopal leaders to stay course: Anglican Communion Network plans to start new churches
An openly gay Episcopal bishop whose consecration was criticized by an Anglican church panel says he is “deeply sorry” for the disarray his election has caused and will adopt a personal moratorium ...
Traveling decalogue draws hoots, hoorays: Roy Moore's granite monument
A national tour of former Alabama judge Roy Moore’s granite monument to the Ten Commandments hit its first snag when atheist protesters confronted it on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last ...
GOP and Vatican divided by Iraq war: Strained relations
The Vatican and the United States were close allies during the 1980s phase of the cold war....
Episcopalians pull 'Druid' rite from site: Material was copyright-protected
An Episcopal Church official pulled a liturgical script devoted to “Mother God” and “Queen of Heaven” from the denomination’s women’s resources Web site one day after an evangelical critique on the...
Trial set for lesbian Methodist pastor: Irene (Beth) Stroud could lose ministerial credentials
A lesbian United Methodist pastor whose case was suspended on a technicality will face trial in Pennsylvania December 1—the first case to be tried under the church’s tightened rules against nonceli...
Interest in Islam takes Ramadan into class: Sometimes controversial
Before mid-November arrives, multicultural educator Afeefa Syeed will have brought third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students from the Muslim Al Fatih Academy in Herndon, Virginia, to several public ...
PCUSA says comments in Hezbollah meeting were 'reprehensible' Controversial visit was "misguided at best": Controversial visit was "misguided at best"
Reeling from stinging criticism by Jewish leaders, officials of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) said that comments made by members of a church delegation meeting last month with Hezbollah leaders ...
Archbishop Tutu takes to New York stage: Raises objections to Guantánamo detentions in off-Broadway play
To a résumé already gilded with honors and accomplishments, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu can now add the job title of actor. Off-Broadway actor, to be exact....
In Boston, some see hand of Higher Power: Red Sox overcome Curse of the Bambino
Ecstatic with their first World Series title in 86 years, fans of the Boston Red Sox are preparing to enshrine this team’s players as bigger-than-life legends who overcame the famous Curse of the B...
Iraqi Christians vow to stay—despite bombs: Church and state in Iraq
Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basilios Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Iraq, had been speaking in Bangkok, Thailand, on a mid-October day to a global gathering of Catholic media specialists about religiou...
Hollow pledge: The problem with 'under God'
The Supreme Court’s June ruling on whether “under God” should be part of the Pledge of Allegiance passed with relatively little notice, since the case was rejected on procedural grounds....
Arguing with Muslims: God-talk on campus
A while back a Duke student was telling me that he and his roommate were not getting along well. I asked him why. “Because he is a Muslim and I’m not.” I asked him how that made a difference....
Loving football: Commitment and faithfulness
The exchange seems bizarre to onlookers....
Test questions: Finding the imaginative prospects
Some years ago students at an Ivy League university rated party schools. The University of Chicago came in 300th out of 300....