Monthly Archives: August 2013
In Israel, Orthodox men demand beard-friendly gas masks
By Michele Chabin — August 28, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) Demand for protective hoods -- as opposed to standard-issue gas masks -- has soared since the U.S. administration confirmed that Syrian civilians were killed last week by chemical weapons.
Journalists, editors eligible for $5,000 scholarships for religion courses
By Wendy Gustofson — August 28, 2013
(Columbia, Mo.) — RELIGION | NEWSWRITERS invites journalists to apply to its Lilly Scholarships in Religion Program. The scholarships give full-time journalists up to $5,000 to take any college religion courses at any accredited institution at any time. Religion headlines are dominating news coverage—politics, religion, Islam in America — now is the perfect time to […]
In 2013, Does Work Have a Prayer?
By Wendy Gustofson — August 28, 2013
TheHighCalling.org CenterforFaithandWork.com DALLAS and KERRVILLE, Texas – Aug. 28, 2013 – This Labor Day weekend, while unemployment rises and national morale dips, a growing number of churches will pray for work—not just to find it but to see God in it. “Besides paychecks, people need meaning—and it’s there if they know how to see […]
Making Space for Grief
By Jana Riess — August 28, 2013
I have the day off work today. I’m celebrating my mom’s birthday. Had she lived, she would have been 72. So today is going to be a time for celebrating my mom by enjoying things we would have done together. I will eat cake. I will go to an art museum. I will read more […]
Beloved Author of Bridge to Terabithia Returns With Modern-Day Christmas Stories
By Religion News LLC — August 28, 2013
Louisville, Kentucky—Katherine Paterson, the award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and Jacob Have I Loved, is back with a new collection of Christmas stories. Beloved by children and adults for decades, Paterson has twice won the National Book Award and the Newbury Medal and is the recipient of the 2013 Laura […]
Harlem Scientologists * ‘Bizarre’ Churches * Augustine Agonistes: Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup
By David Gibson — August 28, 2013
Test your knowledge, take our "I Have a Dream" quiz. Hiring a mother of young children to a tenure-track position counts as "historic" at BYU, and we point to a cool gallery of "bizarrely beautiful" modern churches. The Church of Scientology is moving to Harlem.
The religious imagination of Steve Jobs: An interview with Brett Robinson
By Jonathan Merritt — August 27, 2013
Brett Robinson explores Steve Jobs' ability to intermingle technology and transcendence.
Quiz: How well do you know Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech?
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 27, 2013
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Can you spot some of the biblical and historical references in King's speech?
Video: ‘Realize the Dream’ march moves the faithful
By Adelle M. Banks — August 27, 2013
(RNS) Tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall on Aug. 24, 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Religion News Service interviewed people of faith at the commemoration about what it meant to them.
Quote of the Day: Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 27, 2013
“The idea that Latinos, simply by their presence, might restore the moral tenor of our public discourse is a delusion. The emulsifying effect of American consumer culture, with all its practical atheism, its ambitions, manufactured appetites, distractions, noise, toys and anesthetics – in other words, all its eager little idolatries – is simply too strong.” […]
Three things I learned from Thabiti Anyabwile’s gay rant
By Jonathan Merritt — August 27, 2013
A blog post by a prominent Christian author and pastor provokes widespread response. Here are three things the article can teach us.
Newest ‘Values Voters’ adversary to America: The Emergent Church.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 27, 2013
(RNS) “If we had one one-thousandth of the adherence of either of communism or Islam, we’d be doing pretty well," said Emergent Church leader Tony Jones. "When I first saw this, I thought it was a headline from The Onion.”
COMMENTARY: Keep doomsday religion out of the Syrian conflict
By Faheem Younus — August 27, 2013
(RNS) At this critical juncture, where some religious leaders have issued an all-out warning of a third world war, quoting the Bible to support the “annihilation of Damascus” is like poling at an inflamed appendix; don’t manage it promptly and it may rupture, triggering a much larger regional war
Pope Francis celebrates Mass with wafers made by Argentine inmate
By Alessandro Speciale — August 27, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis celebrates his daily Mass using Communion wafers made by Gabriela Caballero, a 38-year-old woman who is serving a seven-year jail term outside Buenos Aires.
Father Knows Best: When I pray, I feel nothing
By Martin Elfert — August 27, 2013
Prayer has a whole lot in common with hearing.
