Adelle M. Banks
More than 100 religious, immigration activists arrested at White House
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...A ‘soul-winning script’ for the nursing home
Rhonda Rowe and her team gathered around a diagram of the nursing home’s floor plan and determined how to split up to avoid praying with anyone twice.
...Obama’s faith-based advisers divided over religious exemption for anti-gay discrimination
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Is the black church shifting on gay marriage? Q&A with filmmaker Yoruba Richen
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Growing coalition presses Obama to end policy on religious discrimination in hiring
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Baptist seminary head apologizes for admitting Muslim to Ph.D. program
The head of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offered an emotional apology to Southern Baptists meeting in Baltimore for accepting a Muslim student into his school’s Ph.D....
Navy rejects request for first humanist chaplain
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) After the Army recently permitted “humanist” as a religious preference, many hoped a humanist chaplain might follow.
...Obama mourns Kansas gun violence, anti-Semitism: ‘We’re all children of God’
President Obama called for people of all faiths to deter gun violence and anti-Semitism one day after a gunman killed three people at Jewish centers in suburban Kansas City.
...Franklin Graham says Putin better on gay issues than Obama
Evangelist Franklin Graham is praising Russian president Vladimir Putin for his aggressive crackdown on homosexuality, saying his record on protecting children from gay “propaganda” is better than ...