Monthly Archives: October 2007
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Sikhs, feds reach deal on airport turban searches WASHINGTON (RNS) Sikh travelers will no longer be required to publicly remove their turbans at airport security checkpoints under a policy announced Tuesday (Oct. 16). The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released the policy, which will go into effect Oct. 27, in cooperation […]
Pope names 23 new cardinals, including two Americans
By RNS Blog Editor — October 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday (Oct. 17) said he will elevate 23 men, including two Americans, to the highest ranks of the Roman Catholic hierarchy when he makes them cardinals at a ceremony next month in Rome. Eighteen of the newest cardinals will be under the age […]
COMMENTARY: A mzungu reality check
By Cathleen Falsani — October 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NAIROBI, Kenya _ Around the corner from Grace’s house in an impoverished neighborhood on the north side of Nairobi, the woman selling small purple onions slapped my hand, shook it and grabbed my fingers, smiling excitedly. I didn’t think anything of it until our traveling companion, Simon, said the woman […]
10 minutes with … Shalom Auslander
By Michael Foley — October 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In his new memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” Shalom Auslander writes with anger, fear, humor and profanity about growing up in a dysfunctional Orthodox Jewish family in upstate New York and his raging against a vengeful God that he can’t stop believing in. Auslander, 37, desperately wants to protect his pregnant […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 18, 2007
Religion News Service Armenian patriarch supports `genocide’ measure WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congress considers legislation that brands the killings of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 “genocide,” the patriarch of the worldwide Armenian Church said Turkey’s resistance is “unacceptable.” His Holiness Karekin II, the spiritual leader of 7 million Armenian Christians, stopped in Washington during a month-long […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service Wife of Oral Roberts University’s president denies improper behavior OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) The wife of Oral Roberts University’s president denied charges that she spent the night with an underage male and engaged in other lurid behavior with a “male 16-year-old friend,” as alleged in a recent lawsuit. Lindsay Roberts, whose […]
Transsexual pastor prompts uneasy questions for Methodists
By Daniel Burke — October 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BALTIMORE _ The Rev. Drew Phoenix is many things to many people. To St. John’s of Baltimore City, he’s the fun-loving pastor who counsels them, takes their kids hiking, explains Scripture, and plunges into worthy causes. To conservative Methodists, Phoenix embodies another front in the “culture wars,” a rebel who […]
Some young Jews seek out alternative bar mitzvahs
By Joanna Corman — October 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Hannah Nemer’s bat mitzvah was still a year away, but already she was feeling reluctant about such a big production. Based on other Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies she had attended, she worried the ritual would be more an empty performance rather than the spiritual transformation she desired. But when her […]
COMMENTARY: A must-have product embraces a must-do mindset
By Tom Ehrich — October 17, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Apple Computer devotees can be like enthusiastic Christians. They talk avidly about their Apple products, as if using any other system were a personal shortcoming. Whenever they sense an opening, they evangelize. If I publicly voice frustration with my Microsoft Windows system, I can count on a string of […]
Mark Silk bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
Editor Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and a leading expert on how religion is covered in the media. He is the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and founding editor of Religion in the News, a […]
Jan Shipps bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
Jan Shipps is professor emeritus of religious studies and history at Indiana University-Purdue University, and one of the foremost scholars of Mormonism. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and a senior editor of The Journals of William McLellin, 1831-1836, the earliest extended account of the Mormon experience. Shipps […]
John Green bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, and also serves as a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He has done extensive research on American religious communities […]
Jerome Chanes bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
Jerome Chanes has taught American Jewish sociology, Jewish public policy issues, and biblical Hebrew at Barnard College, Stern College, Harvard University, Brandeis and Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor most recently of A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (1998), and is the author of A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages (2000) […]
Reid Vineis bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
Reid Vineis is an undergraduate fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public life. A member of the Trinity College class of 2010 from Columbus, Ohio, he is an editorial assistant for Religion in the News magazine.
Richard L. Wood bio
By Mark Silk — October 16, 2007
Richard L. Wood is director of religious studies and associate professor of sociology at University of New Mexico. In his research and writing, Wood examines the cultural and institutional underpinnings of democratic life, especially those linked to religion. He is the author of Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America.
