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The Party Ain’t Over, by Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson may be the queen of rockabilly, but Jack White is king of this collaboration. The roots-obsessed producer takes charge, offering a high-octane reimagination of various '50s styles....
Taking Utah to Africa
When we look at Mormon expansion in Africa, one pressing question
demands attention: Why is the whole continent not already Mormon?
Can creedless Unitarians make it another 50 years?
A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore
ended with an apology. Laurel Mendes explained that religious doctrine...
Liechtenstein parishes may lose subsidies
Churches in Liechtenstein, one of the world's smallest countries,
could face financial disaster with government plans to withdraw state...
Justices cite ‘standing’ in church-state disputes
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010–2011 term in late June,
legal scholars specializing in church-state issues are saying a Court...
Transparency in ministry finances
Critics of Robert H. Schuller say that his glassy Crystal Cathedral, now in bankruptcy, was more transparent than the fiscal accounting and health of a ministry long dependent on television fame....
What place is mine?
Times of transition are tough. We
currently find ourselves up to our ears in boxes and and clutter and...
Sunday, July 10, 2011: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Of all the Gospel writers, Matthew has his eye most fixed upon the leadership of the church.
Southern Baptists wrestle with gay hoax
(RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the
victims of a hoax in which a group claiming to be the denomination's...
Historic consensus on proselytizing
Christian missionaries should renounce all "deception and coercive
means" of winning converts, according to a final document from a...
Summer reading list
Up until
now, my ideas about summer reading were driven largely by guilt. My bookshelf
is packed to the gills with books that I "should" read: books people have given me and I need
to return, or books that have been sitting there so long, I have given myself
ultimatums--either read this or get rid of it.
Leading by following
President Obama seems to be moving in the direction of openly supporting same-sex marriage....
Grassroots power
Does Jeffrey Stout's church have a god? One might say his god is democracy. But surely democracy is an ethic rather than a theology.
Benedict the teacher
David Tracy
once distinguished three audiences for the theologian: the church, the
general public and the academic community. Joseph Ratzinger has spoken
powerfully to all three.
Supreme Court to review obscenity policy
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday (June 27) that
it will examine whether the Federal Communications Commission has the...
Israeli ambassador backpedals on wartime pope comments
(RNS) After strong criticism from the Jewish community, Israel's
ambassador to the Vatican backpedaled from his praise of the...
Greek Orthodox rally to rebuild Ground Zero church
NEW YORK (RNS) With cries of "Rebuild now! Rebuild Now!" parishioners
and supporters of a Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the 9/11...
Don’t know much about history
Americans who don't have a narrative sense of the country's history are more susceptible to ideologues who try to weave their own versions of the past.
Veiled voices
For many women, the hijab has become a symbol of striving for gender and racial justice.
Our yokes
Before his questioning of the doctrine of hell sparked such a (ahem) firestorm, Rob Bell wrote in Velvet Elvis a chapter about yokes.