Monthly Archives: March 2008
New Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director Named
By Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2008
The interim director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir didn’t stay in that position long. Less than four weeks after stepping into that post after director Craig Jessop resigned, Mack Wilberg was officially named Friday as the new music director of the famous singing group. Wilberg previously was associate music director, a position he began in […]
It’s (not) all Greek
By Daniel Burke — March 31, 2008
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America wants people to know that it’s not in any way affiliated with the “Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Foundation” that’s suing investment bank Bear Sterns. Lots of Bear Sterns investors lost their shirts when the bank was sold at a fire-sale price. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese was not among them, though, […]
Jesus or Barack?
By Mark Silk — March 31, 2008
Take the RADAR quiz. Hint: It’s harder than you think.
Punished with a Baby
By rvineis — March 31, 2008
Barack Obama spoke to a crowd in Pennsylvania on Saturday about sex education and told them the following: “When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include — which should include abstinence education and teaching the children — teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But […]
McCain Courts Catholics
By rvineis — March 31, 2008
As Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News points out, John McCain is quietly engaged in the delicate courtship of Catholic voters. A key swing demographic, Catholics could crown McCain victorious come November. However, the generally moderate group could also be turned off if McCain lines up too closely with the religious right. Thus, tact […]
Religion Gap
By Mark Silk — March 31, 2008
For those of us (and if we aren’t legion neither are we a tiny few) who have shouldered the burden of tracking religion in the current campaign, the, ah, Godsend that was the Obama/Wright affair has just about run itself into the blogground, leaving in its wake a discernible absence of news. This may be […]
Enough Already
By Mark Silk — March 30, 2008
Jacques Berlinerblau, the Washington Post‘s house church-state separation absolutist, sticks his tongue in his cheek to advocate a constitutional amendment that begins, “The right of presidential aspirants to discuss religion, invoke sacred texts, or mention God on the campaign trail is hereby repealed.” The amendment also proposes that, “Whenever a religious figure endorses any candidate […]
Conversion
By Mark Silk — March 29, 2008
Yesterday, a man I know told me that he had “converted” to Barack Obama as follows. He had been trying to make up his mind between Obama and Clinton, and while Obama’s speech on race impressed him, it was not enough to cause him to get down off the fence. What did, instead, was his […]
Vatican for Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Francis X. Rocca — March 29, 2008
After an appeals court refused to reinstate the death sentence of convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported the news on the front page of its Saturday edition (released late Friday), accompanied by a photo of pro-Abu-Jamal demonstrators and the headline: “Every sentence of death not carried out is a victory for […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 29, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service Goliath done in by a hangover, new book says LONDON (RNS) Goliath is a depressed binge drinker done in by a nasty hangover, and Adam drools over Eve’s curvaceous figure. And forget that stable business _ Mary gives birth to Jesus in an overcrowded house. At least, that’s how an […]
Chaplains help amputees face new reality
By Gregory Trotter — March 29, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Capt. Darrick Gutting is the friendliest guy in Ward 57. The bald-headed, 40-year-old Pennsylvanian sports the Army camouflage and a thin scar above his left eye, but his most distinctive feature is his smile. It spreads quickly and rarely leaves. He roams the halls, engaging passersby _ soldiers […]
Interview with head of UCC Part II
By Daniel Burke — March 28, 2008
Here’ s Part II of my interview with the Rev. John Thomas, who heads the United Church of Christ, a denomination that’s been deeply involved (willingly or not, for good or ill) in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. Q: I read that UCC Trinity (Obama’s and Wright’s congregation) had sent something like 50 […]
Obama’s a Christian (We Think)
By Kevin Eckstrom — March 28, 2008
Several pundits have said perhaps the only upshot of all the attention on Barack Obama’s fire-breathing Chicago pastor is that now everyone should know that he’s a Christian, not the closet Muslim many seem to think he is. A new poll shows some success on that front, but 1 in 10 Americans still think he’s […]
Eye of the Tiger
By Daniel Burke — March 28, 2008
I don’t really follow golf, but I know who Tiger Woods is, and I know he’s good. I thought his perspective on Buddhist meditation, then, was worth mentioning. Says the Times of London: Woods does not talk much about the fact that he meditates, something he learnt from Kultida, his mother, who is a Buddhist. […]
Sheik Obama
By Mark Silk — March 28, 2008
You’d think by now that anyone who wasn’t aware of Barack Obama’s religious identity would have to be living under a rock. If so, there are a lot of American voters living under rocks. According to a Pew Research poll, 10 percent of voters think Obama’s a Muslim, up six percent from an AP-Yahoo poll […]
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