In response to the Sandy Hook shooting, President Obama will announce today that Vice President Joe Biden will lead a national effort find policies to counter gun violence.
A new Public Religion Research Institute survey indicates that Catholics such as Biden are much more likely than white evangelicals and white mainline Protestants to favor stricter gun laws.
Capital punishment is on the wane, advocates say, despite the same number of executions this year as in 2011, as Connecticut became the 17th state to repeal the death penalty.
Billboards are the latest front in the Christmas wars, Kimberly Winston reports.
Winston also reports that “the nones” form the world’s third-largest “religion,” according to a new Pew study.
The Forward notes that Judaism has the highest median age at 36, meaning its growth prospects may be weakest.
Holy Writ!
Gay advocates claim to have produced the first-ever “gay friendly” Bible. The “big, fabulous” Scripture is named the “Queen James Bible,” after King James I, whom the advocates say was “famously bi-sexual.”
As might be expected, certain passages pertaining to homosexuality have been changed.
The Montana Supreme Court rejected an “overly broad” request that gay couples be guaranteed the same benefits as married couples, but advocates plan to try again.
British Muslims want the same legal exemptions as the Church of England in legislation to introduce gay marriages.
Ireland’s Catholic bishops came out swinging against a new law that would legalize abortion if the mother’s life is at risk.
What do you get when you mix an American scholar, a crumbling Mexican monument and the love of a good yarn? The Dec. 21 Mayan Apocalypse Media Event, saith Reuters.
For some reason, NASA has issued a press release dated Dec. 22, entitled “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday.”
I assume it’s embargoed.
The DC Circuit Court ruled that the Obama administration must report every 60 days on its progress towards exempting Christian colleges from the contraception mandate.
Europe’s austerity measures have even reached Vatican City, our own Alessandro Speciale reports.
Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says it shouldn’t be taken for granted that all clergy are as “dim” as he is with technology.
Former pop star Frankie Valens has a new gig: pastoring a church in Kansas.
The lion sleeps tonight with lambs.
Yr hmbl aggrgtr,
Daniel Burke
5 Comments
Gregg DesElms
Please don’t do “roundups” of multiple subjects in a single article. No one — and I mean NO ONE — else on the Internet who sends-out email newsletters does that. Do not make the reader wade through things about which she does not care.
Each subject gets its own linked-to thing in the roundup.
What’s WRONG with you? Do not you subscribe to anything? Can you not see what is the Internet standard?!?
Geez! [shakes head in disbelief]
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Kevin Eckstrom
Gregg, if the current format doesn’t work for you, what exactly would you prefer? Separate emails for separate subjects? We’d like to know.
Kevin
Marty
How rude Greg’s comment is. As an ordinary user, I am more than satisfied with how the subjects are presented. The commentary moves smoothly, with embedded links to the items presented. There is sometimes a sweet humor in the commentary that I enjoy. Sending single pages would be a waste of bandwith, and sending a talking points list loses the commentary. I open the links I am interested in, finish reading the page and close it, then leisurely read through each page I opened. Works great. Greg, you really need to take some serious lessons in tact. Your behavior is quite unbearable.
Huey
Please do not change the format. There are others that do in fact use basically the same format. The newsletters that I subscribe to have an option where I can get a single email of article summaries instead multiple emails throughout the day/week.
Charles
I’m a retired clinical psychologist and now conflict expert…I enjoy very much getting involved in other people’s conflicts and give tools and ideas to solve them.
Conflicts are great to foster our self-growth!
so, if you haven’t thought about it before, I’m inviting you to go out and
get yourself a good enemy. Then, you can get to know yourself, what are your
goals in life, your values and how to manage real
anger in a productive way. What else can you wish for?
Appreciate your enemy today, for teaching you so many things.
… And, if you manage to solve the dispute and reconcile, its time to find another enemy!