Kimberly Winston
Special liturgy atones for outbreak of Great War
Half a world away from Europe, where World War I erupted 100 years ago on July 28, Washington National Cathedral marked the occasion with a liturgy created especially for the anniversary.
...Nantucket's 'Greater Light' house holds clues to island’s Quaker past
c. 2014 Religion News Service
NANTUCKET, Massachusetts (RNS) It is an old family story that has become part of the island’s lore.
...Atheist to offer invocation in N.Y. town at the center of public prayer case
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) What do atheists “pray” for?
...High court says no to graduations in churches
The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a lower court ruling that a Wisconsin high school acted unconstitutionally when it held its graduation ceremonies in a local megachurch.
...Atheist or believer? Frank Schaeffer is a bit of both
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) According to the title of his new book, Frank Schaeffer is an atheist.
...In mixed faith marriages, focus is on 'values,' not 'beliefs'
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) If interfaith marriages are supposedly doomed, Dale McGowan’s should have been toe-tagged from the start.
...House considers a prayer plaque at WWII monument; interfaith coalition says ‘no’
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...In Massachusetts, atheists lose ‘under God’ fight
The highest court in Massachusetts upheld the legality of the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance on May 9, dealing a blow to atheist groups who challenged the pledge on antidiscriminati...
In publishing, all dogs go to heaven, but what about cats, horses and birds?
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...New Jersey lawsuit seeks to ban Pledge of Allegiance
(RNS) The American Humanist Association is suing a New Jersey school district for its recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public classrooms.
...Atheist Nate Phelps on his father: I mourn ‘the man he could have been’
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Protestant work ethic not so productive now
America’s vaunted Protestant work ethic is getting a makeover: now it might be more of a secular or atheist work ethic.
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