The Dalai Lama met with top congressional leaders yesterday, saying he resigned his political role because religion and government should be kept clearly and distinctly separate.
CT has a lengthy story on life at Focus on the Family after James Dobson, and includes this breakdown: “Of the 121 new radio programs in 2010, 55 percent of the programs were on marriage, family, and parenting, 24 percent were on spiritual growth, and 7 percent were on public policy, according to a 2010 internal survey.”
A police officer and Jesus blogger in Boynton Beach, Fla., has been arrested and charged with dealing meth. Now it makes sense why Officer David Britto had an “uncanny knack” for tracking down drug dealers.
Just down the road in Miami, Father Alberto Cutie has resurrected his self-help TV talk show, this time taking a page or two out of his own book on overcoming adversity.
Atheists get their big-screen debut this weekend with The Ledge, a film that pits belief vs. unbelief by a director who’s a direct descendant of Charles Darwin. Reuters calls it “a pointless conversation between a pompous fundamentalist Christian and a sneering atheist.”
Speaking of atheists, church-state groups want equal time and equal play for nonbelievers at Fort Bragg after the Army allegedly funnelled $80,000 in support funds to an evangelical rock concert.
Episcopalians and Lutherans are taking their full-communion relationship to a new (some would say smart) level by sharing legislative staff in Washington.
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is worried that the Empire State’s approval of same-sex marriage will lead to “another redefinition to justify multiple partners and infidelity.”
Mormons are adding short-term stints for “senior” missionaries in a bid to boost their thinning ranks of young missionaries.
At the risk of even bringing this one up, they’re marrying monkeys in India.
B16 has checked out of the Vatican and checked in at his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo. Spanish police are looking for the Codex Calixtinus, a medieval manuscript that was a pilgrim’s guide for the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, that went missing from a cathedral.
— Kevin Eckstrom
* an earlier version of this entry contained a humorous photo of a pair of monkeys in wedding outfits, and was removed after a gay rights group found it offensive. No offense was or is intended.
