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Report: Churches, charities not in competition for dollars
(RNS) Houses of worship and other charities often aren't in competition
for dollars but instead tend to reap donations from similar donors, a
new study shows.
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Baylor to allow non-Baptists on governing board
DALLAS (ABP) -- The governing body of Baylor University, the world’s
largest Baptist academic institution, now may include Christians who are
not Baptists....
Episcopalians, Moravians inaugurate full communion relationship
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, February 14 (ENInews)--Representatives of the Episcopal Church and the two provinces of the Moravian Church in North America on 10 February formally inaugurated a full-comm...
Bringing guns to church
The way pastor Jonathan Wilkins sees it, members of his Baptist
church in Thomaston, Georgia, should have the right to carry guns into...
A holy temple
The Christian Seasons Calendar that hangs on my wall is open in this season after Epiphany to a painting by Kirsten Malcolm Berry titled “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth” (1 Cor. 3:6). Fault lines are showing in First Church Corinth over which minister is to be credited with success and which one is to be labelled a failure. Paul keeps the focus on God. Once again the little church in Corinth pre-figures so many of our congregational stories.
Expect a whirlwind
Instead of fretting about worship style, perhaps we should be more concerned about scale. For all its extravagance, much worship today seems curiously trivial, inward and downsized.
Towey named president of Ave Maria University
(RNS) Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan has stepped down from leading
the conservative Catholic university he founded near Naples, Fla., and...
At 102, George Beverly Shea to receive lifetime Grammy award
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"It didn't turn out right"
That's what she said when I walked into her room at the nursing home.
I was there to help plan a funeral on Saturday, for her daughter. Her brothers were also with us....
Muslim-Christian cooperation in Egypt
I have become a BBC Middle East addict.
I check in every few hours to see updated reports of what is happening in...
The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor and The Dangerous Act of Worship, by Mark Labberton
Mark Labberton doesn't want you to read his new book The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor in the traditional way....
Indonesia urged to repeal blasphemy laws
London, February 10 (ENInews)--Indonesia has been urged to repeal its blasphemy laws and provide greater protection to religious minorities – including Christians and the Muslim Ahmadiyya sec...
Quebec bans Sikh daggers from capitol
TORONTO (RNS) Lawmakers in the province of Quebec voted unanimously on
Wednesday (Feb. 9) to ban the kirpan, a Sikh ceremonial dagger, from the
legislature building.
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New pipe in Israel aims to halt worship water shortage
JERUSALEM (RNS) Israeli officials have installed an $11 million pipe to
ease a weekly water shortage on Fridays as observant Jews prepare for...
Buddhist Bhutan wrestles with `shocking' abuse study
NEW DELHI (RNS) The government commissioner charged with promoting
"Gross National Happiness" in the tiny Buddhist nation of Bhutan said he...
In the watery Netherlands, a modern Noah builds an ark
Utrecht, Netherlands, February 10 (ENInews)--If there was ever a country that understands floods, it is the Netherlands, where one-quarter of the land is below sea level, and it is there that a mod...
Kandhamal Christians struggling after carnage
Borimunda, India, February 10 (ENInews) – Junos Nayak's family owns more than ten acres of land in Gadaguda, a village in the Kandhamal district in eastern India, but his turmeric and rice fi...
Labor ruling has ‘religious’ colleges shaking
A small Catholic college in Riverdale, New York, recently got some
news that sent shivers through many religious schools: part-time faculty...