Obama praying courtesy of Regina’s Family Seasons
From RNS headquarters in Washington — where everything is red, white, blue and crowded — we bring you the Religion News Roundup on this Inauguration/MLK Monday. Stayed tuned to RNS for our take on the inaugural prayers – text and subtext.
Obama began the day, per presidential tradition stretching back to FDR, with a service at St. John’s Episcopal Church, a short walk from the White House across Lafayette Park.
On Sunday, the Constitutionally-mandated actual swearing in day, the Obama family attended services at Washington’s Metropolitan AME Church, where the sermon was about trusting in God.
Rachel Zoll says religious tensions are casting a shadow over the inaugural festivities.
And tomorrow, it’s the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral, led by Methodist preacher Adam Hamilton, who, as our own Dan Burke informs us, started his church in a funeral home.
Clergy are urging flu shots and encouraging congregants to share the Sign of Peace without actually touching one another — just two of the ways that faith leader are trying to ease the suffering this flu season, which came early and hit hard.
The son of a Cavalry Albuquerque former preacher gunned down his father, mother and three of his nine siblings with an assault rifle Saturday night, Christianity Today reports.
That same day, accidental shootings at gun shows in three states leave five people injured. That same day, pro-gun rallies draw thousands to state capitols across the country.
The Vatican on new gun control initiatives in the U.S.: “a step in the right direction.”
In Wisconsin, Punjab Singh, the Sikh priest shot by a white supremacist last summer at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, is making slow progress, but likely won’t walk or talk again.
The coal mining town of Vicco, Ky., pop. 334, is likely the smallest in the nation to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Town commissioners voted 3-1, with the lone objector referencing his Christian beliefs.
Pope Benedict XVI this weekend said Catholic charities can’t accept funding from groups that oppose church teachings.
In Bangladesh, a tribunal sentences an Islamic cleric to death for crimes against humanity during that nation’s 1971 war for independence.
Where are Sunday liquor laws strictest? Indiana, reports the Indianapolis Star.
A “godless mom” in Texas gains traction with a blog about raising children without religion.
I haven’t read it for awhile. Today’s a good day. MLK Jr’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
- Lauren Markoe
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kevan Scott
Good reporting today by Lauren Marco. It’s also a good day to remember the legacy of MLK Jr. as we watch the inaguration of President Obama as he starts his 2nd term. Here’s hoping that his 2nd term has much more success than the 1st. By that I mean that I’m hoping that he will take a stand against these religious hypocrites who claim to love freedom but they just can’t get over seeing the black man in the White House and just can’t find it in their hearts to respect the freedoms of others. Supposedly, to them, their beleifs should be the ones that others should follo freedom be damned That will be the undoing of our nation unless we take a stand against them and their intolerance. So, for those Christians that actually follow the words of the Messiah I say continue to speak out against these frauds!
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Nice read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch as I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch! “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.” by Laertius Diogenes.