Monthly Archives: May 2005
Marilynne Robinson on Theology and Fiction
By Frank Jack Daniel — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Gilead” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23) is about the Rev. John Ames, a Congregational minister in Iowa who in 1956 begins writing a letter to his young son, an account of himself and forebears. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics […]
Marilynne Robinson’s `Gilead’ _ In Praise of Ordinary Time
By Carl Anderson — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) “A good sermon,” Marilynne Robinson writes, “is one side of a passionate conversation.” It has to be heard in that way. So, too, a good novel. It is a conversation between the novelist, the reader and _ as in the case of a sermon, perhaps, for some _ […]
Family of Accused Pastor Horrified by Rape Charges
By RNS Blog Editor — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service HAMMOND, La. _ As a boy, family members recalled, Louis David Lamonica never cursed or smoked. He was called to serve the Lord, said his sister Liz Lamonica Roberts, and he wanted to be a preacher just like his daddy. So when news broke that Lamonica, 45, and seven other […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 28, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Former Church Official Says Vatican Owes Victims an Apology (RNS) The former director of the Catholic bishops’ sexual abuse prevention office said the Vatican owes victims a high-level apology, and urged the church to consider allowing priests to marry to meet a “deep, normal need” for intimacy. Kathleen McChesney, who […]
New Play Humanizes Survivors of 1978 Mass Suicide in Jonestown
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service BERKELEY, Calif. _ Night after night, it is the moment when the 600-seat theater falls as still as a cemetery. “And I started walking up to the back of the pavilion and I got up to where the swings were and I saw bodies,” says James Carpenter, an actor portraying […]
New Play Humanizes Survivors of 1978 Mass Suicide in Jonestown
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service BERKELEY, Calif. _ Night after night, it is the moment when the 600-seat theater falls as still as a cemetery. “And I started walking up to the back of the pavilion and I got up to where the swings were and I saw bodies,” says James Carpenter, an actor portraying […]
COMMENTARY: Grand Vision for Ground Zero Grounded
By Frances Kennedy — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Within a few moments at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001, everything changed for all of us. In the long years since, however, so little has changed there that the Wall Street Journal describes the site in lower Manhattan as “an empty canyon.” The vast space has become poet […]
COMMENTARY: Clergy Should Leave Politicking to Politicians
By James Rudin — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Being a religious cheerleader for politicians and their policies does not appear in any clergy job description. One hopes that’s the lesson learned by the Rev. Chan Chandler, the 33-year-old minister who recently lost his job as pastor of the East Waynesville (N.C.) Baptist Church. Shortly before last year’s […]
Religious Investors Pressure Wal-Mart With Shareholder Resolution
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is already facing a massive class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit, an $11 million legal settlement of a federal investigation of labor practices, $3.1 million in fines for violations of the Clean Water Act and allegations of executive misuse of funds. Now the giant retailer must face religious […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Southern Baptist Pastor Apologizes for Anti-Muslim Sign (RNS) A Southern Baptist pastor apologized for posting an anti-Muslim sign at his church in North Carolina, following criticism by leaders in the Muslim-American community. Creighton Lovelace said he regretted posting a message that read, “The Koran needs to be flushed,” according to […]
Second-grader’s Family Sues Public School Over Denial of Christian Song
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The talent show went on without Olivia Turton’s rendition of “Awesome God.” The second-grader wasn’t allowed to sing the Christian pop tune, but her family isn’t giving up their legal fight for her right to sing a religious song in a public school. “It’s tough when you censor … […]
Christians Push Nonviolence in Holy Land, Critics Cry They’re Taking Sides
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Sally Hunsberger, a Washington-based statistician, doesn’t spend much of her precious vacation time with her husband and two children. That’s because Hunsberger, 41, has made a three-year commitment to be a “Christian Peacemaker,” a voluntary role that requires travel to the Middle East as often as possible to […]
Medical Student Starts New Religion Claiming No Absolute Truths _ Universism
By Greg Garrison — May 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Ford Vox started a religion in his spare time. He calls it Universism and is recruiting atheists, deists, freethinkers and others who can rally around the notion that no universal religious truth exists and that the meaning of existence must be determined by each individual. Vox, a […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WCC Appeals to Libya to Spare Lives of Six Health Workers (RNS) The World Council of Churches has appealed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to spare the lives of six medical workers after a court found them guilty of deliberately infecting some 400 children with HIV. Forty children died. The […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Best Buy to Curb Violent Video Games, to Applause of Catholic Investors (RNS) Christian Brothers Investment Services announced Thursday (May 19) that it has withdrawn a shareholder resolution on violent video games that it filed with Best Buy Co. Inc. because the retailer has established a policy to restrict the […]
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