Monthly Archives: May 2006
COMMENTARY: Don’t They Have Anything Better to Do?
By Tom Ehrich — May 17, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In my corner of the world, an unknown gunman fired shots outside a middle school and gunfire closed down a nursery school. Investigators found more DNA evidence in the Duke University rape case, and a biomedical engineering deal collapsed over money. A lot else happened, too _ everyday news […]
A One-Stop Guide to Decoding `Da Vinci’ Film
By Julie O'Connor — May 17, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) All the people ticked off by “The Da Vinci Code” will soon have an entire movie to fuel their rage. The book bashers are especially upset by the pre-prologue page that opens Dan Brown’s thriller _ the one that says “FACT” and then attests to the existence of the […]
Mark Your Calendars _ 666 is Coming!
By Piet Levy — May 17, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Beware June 6, 2006: The apocalypse, the Antichrist, death metal and Ann Coulter will all be among us. The numerical translation for this year’s June 6 bears an eerie resemblance to 666, an infamous digit known as the mark of the beast or Antichrist in the Book of Revelation. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 17, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Outspoken Dutch Critic of Islam to Take D.C. Think Tank Post LONDON (RNS) A Dutch politician who has become a leading critic of Islam is quitting the country’s parliament and moving to the United States to take a job with a conservative think tank with close ties to the Bush […]
McCarrick Retires; Pope Names Wuerl Archbishop of Washington
By Daniel Burke — May 17, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick as leader of the Archdiocese of Washington on Tuesday (May 16) and named Bishop Donald Wuerl of Pittsburgh as his successor. McCarrick had been the most prominent Catholic voice in the nation’s capital since his installation in 2001, […]
Muslims Look to Blacks for Civil Rights Guidance
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Many African-American Muslims can trace their Islamic heritage to slaves who were brought to North America in the 17th century, some 10 percent to 30 percent of whom were estimated to be Muslim. They call themselves, as a matter of pride, “indigenous Muslims.” Together, black Muslims account for about […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Vatican Renews Attack on `The Da Vinci Code’ VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican renewed its attack on “The Da Vinci Code” novel Monday (May 15), denouncing the book and its forthcoming film adaptation as products of ignorance and hatred. The condemnation came from two top aides to Pope Benedict XVI […]
COMMENTARY: Wanting for Others What We Want for Ourselves
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) For a Muslim American like myself, as for many Americans, the hard questions raised by the immigration reform debate have no easy answers. How do we secure our borders and protect ourselves against would-be terrorists, while at the same time avoiding blanket discrimination against Muslims? Like Hispanics, the vast […]
Opposition to Gay Marriage Links Members of Arlington Group
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio _ The Arlington Group is an informal coalition of nearly 60 of the nation’s most influential evangelical Christian leaders. It formed in the summer of 2003 to mount a nationwide campaign to oppose gay marriage. The conservative Ohio-based American Policy Roundtable has posted a complete Arlington Group membership […]
Ohio’s Blackwell Rides Gay Marriage Fight to GOP Prominence
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio _ In June 2003, a group of evangelical Christian leaders met in Arlington, Va., to map strategy for a clash they viewed as the political equivalent of Gettysburg, the greatest battle ever fought on American soil. The group members _ veterans of the culture wars and the birth […]
Scholar Finds Common Truths Among Religions
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At a time when tensions between and within the world’s major religions are roiling, Karen Armstrong comes to remind us that from their very beginnings, all of humankind’s major faiths have shared essential truths. Armstrong, the onetime Roman Catholic nun who has become a leading scholar and popularizer of […]
Muslim civil rights; the Arlington Group; Commonalities among religions
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 2006
In Monday’s RNS report Omar Sacirbey writes about Muslims looking to blacks for guidance on civil rights: African-American Muslims trace their Islamic heritage to slaves brought to North America in the 17th century, some 10 percent to 30 percent of whom were estimated to be Muslim. Many call themselves indigenous Muslims. Despite that role, many […]
Protestants Congregations Struggle to Cope With Their Own Traumatic Scandals
By Whitney Jones — May 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly NEW YORK _ While the sex abuse scandal involving Roman Catholic priests has rocked the church and created years of headlines, Protestant congregations have been devastated by their own scandals _ ministers having affairs with women in their own congregations. No one knows for sure how many such cases […]
Internet Links Prayer Chains Around the World
By Kristen Campbell — May 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) How fast does a prayer travel? From a Florida hospital, parents sent out a cry for help for their 2-year-old daughter, facing chemotherapy to treat an inoperable tumor that had grown to the size of a cantaloupe. From Florida to Michigan their e-mail message went. From Michigan to Canada, […]
Calif. American Baptists Vote to Leave Denomination
By Adelle M. Banks — May 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A California-based group of churches has announced its formal decision to break ties with the American Baptist Churches USA, marking the first split of one regional group from the denomination over homosexuality. The board of the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest voted unanimously Thursday (May 11) to […]
