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Feds rule against a second Catholic college
(RNS) For the second time this year, a federal regulator has rejected
the First Amendment arguments of a Catholic college and cleared the way...
70 Minnesota UMC clergy would bless gay unions
Some 70 United Methodist clergy have signed a statement saying they would offer the church's blessing to any prepared couples desiring a same-sex marriage....
Easy faith
Huffpost Religion recently ran an excerpt from Desmund Tutu's new book God is Not a Christ...
Don't blame social media
Well, now we know: Rep. Anthony Weiner used Twitter to send a lewd picture to a young woman. He then lied about it repeatedly before finally confessing....
After disaster
Rebecca Solnit’s thesis is that paradise can arise from hell. If I am more pessimistic, perhaps that is due to accounts of natural disaster such as Emma Larkin's in her new book.
Obama and the Arab Spring: Historian Juan Cole
"Most Americans would like to see people take care of their own business.
On the other hand, most Americans
don't like to see tanks crush unarmed crowds."
Sunday, June 19, 2011: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Matthew 28:16-20
At my baptism, I giggled.
Egyptians want advice, not rule, of clerics
WASHINGTON (RNS) Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, a new Gallup survey says a majority of Egyptians want religious...
Palestinian and Israeli leaders condemn mosque attack
Jerusalem, June 7 (ENInews)--Israeli and Palestinian politicians condemned
an arson attack on a West Bank mosque on 7 June, but Palestinians also...
Judge hears monks' suit over right to build caskets
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Wearing a monk's robe, Abbot Justin Brown climbed into
the witness box on Monday (June 6) and said the only people who ever...
Inerrancy of the Bible and Sarah Palin
The two possible meanings of the title of this post are intentional.
It seems to me that the same tactics that Christians who believe in the
Bible’s inerrancy use to deal with evidence to the contrary are the
tactics being used to defend the inerrancy of Sarah Palin (and other politicians – Palin just provides one obvious recent example).
Nuns Behaving Badly, by Craig A. Monson
Music historian Craig Monson had the rare privilege of doing research in the Vatican Archive reading room....
To Make the Earth Whole, by Marc Gopin
This is a case study in citizen diplomacy, defined as the attempt by private citizens to develop relationships with people in countries that are hostile toward one's own country....
My wandering mind: A pastor goes to yoga
Among the thoughts that course through my brain when I'm supposed to be
focusing on my breathing are thoughts about worship. Being a newcomer to
yoga has prompted me to reflect on what it is like to be new to
one of our services.
Is yoga religious? Spiritual roots of a physical practice: Spiritual roots of a physical practice
Who owns yoga? That unexpected question arose last year when the Hindu
American Foundation identified what it views as two serious
misconceptions about yoga that are widespread in the West.
Asian bishops say abuse isn't just 'a problem of the West'
TOKYO (RNS/ENInews) Roman Catholic bishops from across Asia will hold a
summit on "The Impact of Pedophilia" in the Catholic Church, saying...
For GOP evangelicals, Bachmann talks the talk
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour warned several hundred Christian
conservatives gathered in Washington recently not to expect a "perfect...
Two thirds of Americans OK with Mormon candidate
Roughly two out of three Americans say it makes no difference to them
if a presidential candidate is Mormon, according to a new Pew Research...