Monthly Archives: March 2007
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Update: Episcopalians Void Election of South Carolina Bishop (RNS) Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has thrown out the election of a conservative bishop-elect in South Carolina, declaring that he did not receive the proper approval of a majority of Episcopal dioceses. Although South Carolina announced that its candidate had […]
Churches Steer Spring Break Volunteers Towards Gutting, Rebuilding
By Bruce Nolan — March 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Kara Huselton, a Boston College freshman from Rochester, N.Y., muscled a dead washing machine out the second-floor door of a vacant duplex and, with the help of two friends, tipped it over a railing to fall two stories with a satisfying crash. Vile water spilled out of […]
Monk Searches For His Own Mysterious Identity
By Pat Galbincea — March 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Do you know this man? He grew up on Cleveland’s East Side in the 1920s and had a mother named Essie, a succession of stepfathers and a little white dog called Skippy. He went to Central High School, dropping out after 11th grade, loved strawberry ice cream, was […]
Ouch! The Precept of Non-Harm
By Daniel Burke — March 16, 2007
Showing how seriously they take the Buddhist precept of non-harm (don’t kill, maim, or otherwise do violence to any sentient beings) monks in Malaysia are trying to deal peacefully with an infestation of fire ants. One visitor was bitten so badly he had to receive hospital treatment. They’ve tried vacuuming the ants, to no avail. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Twin Cities Bishop Bans Communion at Gay Catholic Meeting (RNS) Top Catholic officials have prohibited the celebration of Mass and the attendance of a senior bishop at a Catholic gay right groups’ national symposium in St. Paul, Minn., this weekend (March 16-18). Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis […]
Till Divorce Do Us Part: Evangelicals Wary of GOP Marriage Record
By RNS Blog Editor — March 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When Southern Baptist public policy guru Richard Land sizes up the Republican presidential pack and factors in whether a candidate has been divorced, he thinks of marriage mathematics, not just morals. “The progession from two to three … wives is not an arithmetic progression for evangelicals, it’s exponential,” […]
Evangelicals _ Against Abortion, and Now the War
By Amy Sullivan — March 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Suzanne Brownlow shivers on the Oregon highway overpass as a cutting wind whips her sign: “Honk to End the War.” Her weekly demonstration is the latest turn in a fractious journey that has taken the evangelical Christian mother from protesting abortion clinics to protesting the war in Iraq. “I […]
COMMENTARY: A Few Setbacks Never Stopped Them Before
By James Rudin — March 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The religious right suffered major losses in the 2006 elections, but the movement is not dying or fading from the American political scene. One goal of the religious right is to replace the teaching of evolution in public schools with either “creationism” that uses Genesis as a scientific proof […]
Bishop Battles Depression _ and Its Stigma
By Douglas Todd — March 16, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Archbishop Raymond Roussin remembers the shame he felt when he first admitted to himself and others he was clinically depressed. “It was humiliating,” said Roussin, who three years ago was appointed head of the sprawling Greater Vancouver archdiocese. “I thought, `How could I possibly be mentally […]
WWJD? NAE Stands Firm
By RNS Blog Editor — March 15, 2007
Evangelicals Affirm Stance on Environment, Oppose Torture RNS’ Adelle M. Banks reports that the National Association of Evangelicals has supported a staffer that some thought to be “too environmentally friendly” and endorsed a statement condemning torture, in this week’s full-text article, linked above. But James Dobson won’t be happy. Quotes: Focus on the Family Chairman […]
WWJD? NAE Stands Firm
By RNS Blog Editor — March 15, 2007
Evangelicals Affirm Stance on Environment, Oppose Torture RNS’ Adelle M. Banks reports that the National Association of Evangelicals has supported a staffer that some thought to be “too environmentally friendly” and endorsed a statement condemning torture, in this week’s full-text article, linked above. But James Dobson won’t be happy. Quotes: Focus on the Family Chairman […]
Coffee Company Takes Fair Trade One Step Further
By RNS Blog Editor — March 15, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ For the 15 years Tom Angus worked for a company that negotiated the lowest possible prices for coffee beans, he would occasionally travel to Costa Rica, meet with farmers and hear about their desperate poverty and how they were losing their land. Angus says he was able […]
Evangelicals Affirm Stance on Environment, Oppose Torture
By Adelle M. Banks — March 15, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The National Association of Evangelicals has affirmed its stance on caring for the environment _ indirectly rebuffing complaints that a staffer was too environmentally friendly _ and endorsed a statement condemning torture. Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson and two dozen other evangelical leaders had asked the board […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 15, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Gay Episcopal Bishop Says `Unprecedented’ Demands Will Dominate Meeting WASHINGTON (RNS) On his way to a crucial meeting of Episcopal bishops, the openly gay bishop whose election set off a row in the global Anglican Communion said church governance, not gay rights, may dominate the agenda. Episcopal bishops will meet […]
Evangelization Campaign
By Tracy Gordon — March 15, 2007
Quote of the Day: Lutheran Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson “I suppose one of my greatest frustrations in six years as presiding bishop is, it just feels like we haven’t been able to turn around what I think is a deep ambivalence and resistance in this church to being what we claim in our name, and […]
