Monthly Archives: June 2006
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Presbyterian Benefactor Beset by Money Woes, Newspaper Says (RNS) The Denver man who pledged $150 million to help the Presbyterian Church (USA) start new churches has a house in foreclosure and mountains of debt and legal bills, according to a Denver Post investigation. Stanley W. Anderson made the pledge _ […]
Williams Lays Out Two-Tier Membership for Anglicans
By Daniel Burke — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said Tuesday (June 27) that “the best way forward” for the deeply divided Anglican churches is to adopt a Communion-wide covenant and a two-track membership system. Under Williams’ plan, churches that agree to the as-yet-unwritten covenant would […]
Missionaries, Witch Doctors Team Up to Battle AIDS
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service FISH HOEK, South Africa _ When it comes to fighting ailments from witches to the common cold, many black residents of this windswept fishing village have long trusted the medical expertise of the traditional healer Nkonjani Themba. But when AIDS descended on South Africa and the herbs of the ancestors […]
Benedict going to Spain; Archbishop of Canterbury looks forward; Missionaries and witch doctors join
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2006
In Tuesday’s RNS report Vatican correspondent Stacy Meichtry writes an advance on Pope Benedict’s upcoming trip to Spain, during which the pontiff will confront growing secularism there: Barely a year has passed since Pope Benedict XVI, in a famous speech prior to his election, called his church to arms against a rising tide of moral […]
Pope to Confront Growing Secularism During Trip to Spain
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Barely a year has passed since Pope Benedict XVI, in a famous speech prior to his election, issued a call to arms that decried moral indifference in Western culture as a “dictatorship of relativism.” Next week (July 8-9), Benedict will travel to the front lines of that […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Baptist Group Returns Jesus Reference to Constitution (RNS) The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly approved a new constitutional preamble that once again includes a reference to Jesus Christ. About 4,100 people attended the annual meeting of the moderate Baptist group from June 22-23 in Atlanta. During a business session, the […]
COMMENTARY: It’s Time to Get Back to Business
By Tom Ehrich — June 28, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Now that Episcopalians and Presbyterians have allowed homosexuality to dominate their national conventions yet again, is it time for rant, lament, serious analysis? No, it is time to do what Jesus did: “Turn the other cheek.” Literally, turn away from overwrought national assemblies and manufactured alarms, and look instead […]
Talk About Natural Family Planning …
By Kevin Eckstrom — June 27, 2006
Ayesha Akram’s article on gay Muslims who seek lesbian Muslims for “marriages of convenience” is getting lots of chatter in the blogosphere …
FBI Director talks religion
By Tracy Gordon — June 27, 2006
Quote of the Day: FBI Director Robert S. Mueller “I think, in terms of a religion, it’s not the religion that is the terrorist.” -FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, speaking in Cleveland on June 23, a day after the arrest of an alleged terrorist cell in Miami. According to news reports, the individuals are Muslims, […]
Former Indonesian Leader Calls for Cleansing of Islam
By Peter Sachs — June 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Indonesia’s first elected president on Monday (June 26) called for a “spiritual regeneration” within Islam to counteract extremists who he said have given Muslims a bad reputation. “The world today faces a crisis of understanding that threatens all of humanity,” said Abdurrahman Wahid. “The crisis afflicts Muslims and […]
A God by any other name …
By Tracy Gordon — June 27, 2006
Quote of the Day: Southern Baptist Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. “The Christian faith is based exclusively in the understanding that God alone has the right to name himself. … He does not invite his creatures to experiment in worship by naming him according to their own desires.” -Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Muslim Group Says Miami Terror Suspects are Not Muslims (RNS) Days after federal authorities charged seven men with plotting terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, a Muslim advocacy group is insisting the men were not Muslims and shouldn’t be described as such in news reports. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations […]
Can’t Make It to Church? Take God With You
By Kristen Campbell — June 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Maybe you’re vacationing on a desert island. Perhaps you have to travel at an inopportune time. Perchance the dog ate your alarm clock. Bottom line: You can’t make it to congregational worship. What’s a believer to do? For starters, some say, don’t sweat it. “The Sabbath was, as Jesus […]
God on the go; and Indonesia’s Wahid on Islam
By RNS Blog Editor — June 27, 2006
Kristen Campbellwrites in Monday’s RNS report about alternatives for those who can’t make it to worship at church: Maybe you’re vacationing on a desert island. Perhaps you have to travel at an inopportune time. Perchance the dog ate your alarm clock. Bottom line: You can’t make it to congregational worship. What’s a believer to do? […]
Younger Southern Baptists Feel `New Day’ in Church’s Life
By Adelle M. Banks — June 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service GREENSBORO, N.C. ÆÂ? On the eve of this year’s annual meeting of Southern Baptists, Micah Fries spoke of how he, as a 27-year-old pastor, often feels left out of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. But with the presidential election of Frank Page, a self-described “normal” pastor, Fries and other young […]
