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Tony Perkins tells us what parables mean
A lot of people didn't like Tony Perkins' CNN Belief Blog post last week, and rightly so. Jesus was a free marketer, long before the concept was developed? Sure, if you say so.
Quest for Spiritual Community, by Angela H. Reed
A few years ago our local group of clergy met to discuss the level of spiritual maturity in our congregations....
Relative poverty: The indignity of gross inequality
Which view of economic inequality has greater merit, Adam Smith's or the Bible's? It's a trick question: the two are broadly the same.
Jefferson's Bible gets a second look
c. 2011 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) How would you feel about taking a razor blade to a Bible?
Thomas Jefferson, apparently, didn't have any qualms about it....
A Jewish Christmas? Some say 'Oy Tannenbaum'
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) Frances Dinkelspiel attends a Reform synagogue, is raising her teenage daughters Jewish and plans to host a Christmas party this year.
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Advent and retreat
I found myself
staring at the wall. I'd done two- and three-day retreats, but this was four
days alone in a cottage, and the stretch of time was unnerving. I had to go...
Jesus was an occupier
Recently I wrote a piece responding to Tony Perkins’s piece at CNN
in which he claims that Jesus was not an occupier, but was “a
free-marketer.” Well, his piece upset me so much I’ve decided to write another response to that ludicrous claim.
Churches in Congo slam presidential election process
December 12 (ENInews)--As international observers say that general elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo were flawed, churches also have been highly critical of the process that re-elected ...
Sunday, December 25, 2011: Titus 2:11–14
I was visiting the traditional site of Good Friday and Easter: the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, an imposing, exotic, heterogeneous amalgam of interconnected buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem....
Pope Benedict XVI to visit Cuba, Mexico next year
c. 2011 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI confirmed on Monday (Dec. 12) that he will travel to Cuba and Mexico next year....
Out of Afghanistan
In 2008, President Obama accused his
predecessor of taking his eye off the ball—the fight in
Afghanistan. But the case for a military presence in Afghanistan was already waning.
Conservatives rate 'naughty and nice' Christmas retailers
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) Don't let the strains of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" over the store's audio system fool you. Barnes & Noble is "against" Christmas....
Christmas symbols are in the eye of the beholder
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) When is a candy cane not just a candy cane?...
Can there be too much ‘Tebowing’?
Thanks to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, sports and religion
have become the topic du jour. Arguments over Tebow's path to the Hall...
Russian Orthodox join election fraud protests
After a week of mounting protest over alleged fraud in Russia's
parliamentary election, the Russian Orthodox Church has called for...