Monthly Archives: April 2015
TV’s ‘Dig’ goes to the gates of hell — and hopefully, back
By Kimberly Winston — April 30, 2015
(RNS) Ever heard of "Bible roulette"? It's featured on this week's episode of "Dig" -- and here's what that could mean.
World Help Provides Emergency Assistance for Earthquake Victims in Nepal
By Religion News LLC — April 30, 2015
Kathmandu, Nepal—On Saturday, April 25, 2015, at noon local time, an earthquake measuring 7.9 in magnitude shook central Nepal causing thousands of casualties and leaving multitudes more injured or missing. Buildings collapsed, roads are blocked, and many in rural areas experienced deadly landslides. Waves of aftershocks only intensified the chaos, which is said to have […]
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly – May 1
By Religion News LLC — April 30, 2015
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. Visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics for additional information. Show #1835 will be fed over PBS at 5:00 p.m. EST on May 1 (check local listings). Baltimore Tensions – Tensions remain high in Baltimore in the wake of protests—sometimes violent—over the death of an African-American man Freddie Gray, […]
Scott Walker plugs a Jesus devotional in a not-so-subtle sign to evangelicals
By Kimberly Winston — April 30, 2015
(RNS) The Wisconsin governor uses a popular devotional book to signal to evangelicals that they have the same reading material on their nightstands.
A medieval prayer wheel surfaces, but how it was used is anyone’s guess
By David Van Biema — April 30, 2015
(RNS) It appears to have been ordered up by a woman for women: An abbess in Liesborn, Germany, named Berthildis, had it made for the highborn ladies who had traded the medieval court for her convent.
6 things to expect in the pope’s address to Congress
By David Gibson — April 30, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Want to know what Pope Francis will say to Congress in September? A top adviser offers a preview.
Sexy swingers club or ‘church’: Who gets to decide?
By Heidi Hall — April 30, 2015
MADISON, Tenn. (RNS) Rooms labeled as dungeons in remodeling plans for The Social Club have been renamed as "choir" and "handbell" space in the revamped United Fellowship Center. Courts may decide the sincerity of that conversion.
6 things to expect in the pope’s address to Congress
By David Gibson — April 30, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Everyone wants Congress to stop fighting and get working, and that includes Pope Francis, a top adviser said Wednesday (April 29) in a preview of the pope's upcoming U.S. trip. The Argentine-born pontiff has never been to the U.S., but he will make history in September as the first pope to address […]
ValLimar Jansen’s latest album “a soulful experience”
By Religion News LLC — April 30, 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. (OCP) April 30, 2015 – A unique mixture of genres, ValLimar Jansen’s latest album, “Spirit & Soul”,contains elements from gospel and praise and worship while escaping the confines of either genre. “This is not a gospel record or even a praise and worship record, yet all those elements are here. This is a […]
Mormon silence on Baltimore. And Ferguson. And Cleveland.
By Jana Riess — April 30, 2015
Half a century after the civil rights movement, black people are still dying in America’s streets at the hands of whites. Is it too much to expect that a prophetic religion that wants to offer God’s voice to us today would go out on a limb and say that, in general, this is wrong?
Amid Nepal’s shattered shrines and temples, a religious fatalism sets in
By Vishal Arora — April 30, 2015
KATHMANDU, Nepal (RNS) A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shattered many of Nepal's most famous religious sites but doesn't seem to have shaken the faith of its people.
No dice required: A medieval prayer wheel surfaces, but how it was used is anyone’s guess
By David Van Biema — April 30, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) If much of life in the High Middle Ages seems foreign to us, the wheel -- along with four others like it that have survived to the present -- is a real riddle.
Charlie Hebdo artist: Drawing The Prophet ‘no longer interests me’
By Reuters — April 30, 2015
Luz drew the tearful Mohammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") sign for the first edition published after terrorists killed his magazine colleagues.
Sexual Integrity Challenge to Men: Starve Your Eyes for 30 Days
By Religion News LLC — April 30, 2015
LAGUNA BEACH, CA. Steve Arterburn, co-author with Fred Stoeker of the best-selling book, Every Man’s Battle, host of the daily radio program, New Life Live, and founder of New Life Ministries, will announce tomorrow, Friday, May 1, a campaign to get men to starve their eyes for 30 days. He’s encouraging men to go to […]
5 faith facts about Bernie Sanders: Unabashedly irreligious
By Lauren Markoe — April 29, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-identified socialist who's perhaps the most left-leaning member of Congress, is expected to announce this week that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president. Sanders, 74, was born to Jewish parents and identifies as Jewish _ though culturally, not religiously. Most political observers call him a super […]
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