Monthly Archives: September 2006
RNS Religion Calendar
By RNS Blog Editor — September 30, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here is the RNS calendar of religious holidays, events and meetings for October and November. It is updated monthly. Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: semiannual general conference, Salt Lake City. Contact: Dale Bills at 801-240-4377; e-mail: billsdk(at)ldschurch.org Oct. 1 Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 30, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Sex Abuse Victims Group Urges Southern Baptist Attention (RNS) A group that has drawn attention to the issue of sexual abuse by Catholic priests has asked leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention to “make Southern Baptist churches safer.” The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) wrote a Sept. […]
Trucker Church Offers Gospel at the Gas Pump
By Renee Busby — September 30, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service ROBERTSDALE, Ala. _ It was 9:15 a.m. on a Sunday at the Oasis Truck Center near the Alabama-Florida state line when the cashier handed Donavan Fowler the microphone. A recent graduate of Pensacola Bible Institute, Fowler announced that church services were beginning in 15 minutes in the red semi-truck out […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 29, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Civil Rights Group Cautiously Backs Muslim Charity (UNDATED) A national Muslim civil rights group is giving a cautious seal of approval to a Detroit-area charity that was raided by federal agents. Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Muslims wishing to help the less fortunate should […]
Danforth Says Religion, Politics a Volatile Mix
By Kim Lawton — September 29, 2006
c. 2006 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) Former Sen. John Danforth is no stranger to the idea of religion playing a role in politics. After all, during his three terms as a Republican senator from Missouri, and then a diplomat, he remained an active Episcopal priest. But now, Danforth believes that religion has become a […]
Tattoo Ministry Offers a Clean Slate, One Scar at a Time
By Christa Brown — September 29, 2006
c. Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ A tattoo of Korean characters spelling “trouble” snaked down Miles Carrington’s neck. The markings were remnants of a former life, of drugs and alcohol, gangs and jail. They did not belong on the cleaned-up Carrington, a 36-year-old father of two with a respectable job selling stocks and bonds. […]
COMMENTARY: Anglican-Jewish Agreement a Sign of Hope
By James Rudin — September 29, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) This month, the religious “bad news” story was the violent reaction of Muslims to the pope’s speech in which he invoked a 14th-century emperor who called the prophet Muhammad’s teachings “evil and inhuman.” Some Muslim leaders even issued bizarre calls for the pope to convert to Islam. Unfortunately, during […]
Forgiveness and ‘Spin Sorrow’
By RNS Blog Editor — September 28, 2006
For Jews, Forgiveness Isn’t Always Cut and Dried Ansley Roan compares the Jewish concept of forgiveness with the spate of recent public apologies from such headliners as Mel Gibson and Senator George Allen, in this week’s full text RNS article, linked above. Quote: Public apologies by public figures are often driven by public opinion, said […]
For Jews, Forgiveness Isn’t Always Cut and Dried
By Ansley Roan — September 27, 2006
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mel Gibson. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Sen. George Allen. Each has made headlines this year with public apologies _ Gibson for offending Jews, Nagin for calling the World Trade Center a “hole in the ground” and Allen for calling an Indian man “macaca.” Those apologies came in the […]
Jason Berry: This Far by Faith
By Susan Larson — September 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ In a long and distinguished career spanning three decades, journalist Jason Berry has been there, done that and written about it. His books range from dispatches from the front lines of the civil rights movement to the rise of contemporary New Orleans music to the crisis in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Religion Scholars Criticize Muslim Professor’s Visa Denial WASHINGTON (RNS) An organization of religion scholars is among several groups criticizing the State Department for denying a visa for a prominent Muslim professor. Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan was denied a visa even though the government has dropped a previous allegation that he […]
COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS: The Return of Pope Ratzinger
By By David Gibson — September 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Pope Benedict XVI has had a bad couple of weeks, really the first bad weeks of his relatively young and surprisingly uncontroversial pontificate. The fury in many Muslim quarters over his academic lecture on religion and violence during a homecoming tour to Bavaria continued to spread, and he was […]
Vatican Excommunicates Rogue African Archbishop
By RNS Blog Editor — September 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ The Vatican on Tuesday (Sept. 26) announced the excommunication of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the African cleric who scandalized the Catholic Church by marrying in 2001, as a penalty for consecrating a group of married men as bishops. A statement from the Holy See press office cited church […]
COMMENTARY: Playing by Everyone Else’s Rules
By Tom Ehrich — September 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The unfolding ethical drama at Hewlett-Packard _ top officers using questionable and perhaps illegal methods to spy on directors, employees and reporters _ raises an obvious question: “What were they thinking?” Could plugging a leak in board secrecy be so important as to warrant undermining morale and future ethical […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 26, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Gay Priest Loses Bid to Be Newark Bishop NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Episcopal Diocese of Newark on Saturday (Sept. 23) elected a Massachusetts priest as its 10th bishop, passing over a gay candidate whose election could have further roiled the global Anglican Communion. The Rev. Mark Beckwith of Worcester, Mass., […]
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