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GOP budget chief ducks questions on budget's Catholic roots
c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Paul Ryan did not want to engage in a theological debate....
Listen to the most vulnerable, church alliance urges World Bank head
(ENInews)--The Geneva-based Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) on April 25 urged the World Bank, under newly-appointed president Jim Yong Kim, to include faith-based organizations in its decisions ...
Estonian silence
Last week, a friend handed me a novel off his shelf and said simply, “Read it.” I did, almost immediately, and I was captivated....
Small acts of courage
A Swiss bureaucrat saved hundreds from the Nazis. Yet even when picking up a cross means picking up a rubber stamp, many desert and flee.
Global Christian leaders denounce attack on Sudan Presbyterian Church
(ENInews)--Global Christian leaders are condemning the destruction on April 21 of the Sudan Evangelical Presbyterian Church Bible School in Khartoum, an incident that occurred amidst escalating hos...
'Angry Queers' damage Driscoll's Portland church
c. 2012 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore....
Feast of St. Mark (my favorite)
Near the top of my list of biblical thanksgivings is St.Mark’s gospel account....
The nonnegotiable vs. the unmentioned
It's no big shock that the Catholic bishops' religous freedom campaign is being crafted by others into far more partisan messages than anythin...
Wednesday digest
New today from the Century: Tom Long on small acts of courage, the Feast of St. Mark, more.
Jonathan Rundman, by Jonathan Rundman
The Minneapolis-based Rundman has built an unlikely career as a scruffy Lutheran rocker, tackling scripture and spirituality with finesse that transcends the vapid Christian rock scene....
Russian patriarch calls priests who opposed prayer service 'traitors'
Moscow (ENInews)--Patriarch Kirill I called clergy who opposed the holding of mass prayer meeting held in Moscow on April 22 "traitors in cassocks," in a sign of continuing division within the Russ...
The lure of books
E-books have their critics, but sales are on the rise. One thing seems certain: people will go on reading books, in whatever form.
Easter 5B (Acts 8:26-40)
I used to read this as a story of Philip’s boldness and willingness to go even to the stranger to declare the truth. Now I understand just how little Philip knows.
Israel's Conservative wing OKs gay and lesbian rabbis
In a landmark decision, the Masorti Movement, the Israeli branch of Conservative Judaism, announced that its rabbinical school will begin to accept gay and lesbian candidates for ordination....