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For many schools, the Master of Divinity degree is moving online for good
By Yonat Shimron — January 26, 2021
(RNS) — Duke Divinity School will begin offering a hybrid Master of Divinity degree with online classes and one-week in-person intensives — cementing what has become a growing trend among most free-standing seminaries.
National Prayer Breakfast will be virtual in 2021 due to COVID-19
By Bob Smietana — December 17, 2020
(RNS) — Every president since Dwight Eisenhower has attended the National Prayer Breakfast, which will go virtual in 2021 for the first time due to COVID-19.
Who owns the .bible?
By Marc Zvi Brettler — March 8, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The Bible has never belonged to one group alone. Its internet namesake shouldn’t either.
Nonprofit offers online English-language translation of the Talmud for free
By Yonat Shimron — February 10, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) A nonprofit organization devoted to Jewish learning announced it has uploaded 22 tractates of the English-language edition of the Babylonian Talmud and will post the remainder as they are translated and annotated.
Church of Scotland to consider online baptisms, Communion
By Yonat Shimron — May 19, 2016
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A Church of Scotland committee is pushing for "a wide-ranging review of practice and procedure which is impacted by the use of new technology in church life."
REPORT: Internet hate speech can lead to acts of violence
By Omar Sacirbey — May 6, 2014
(RNS) The Muslim Advocates report contains examples of hate speech and how it can lead to violence, as well as how victims of online hate speech can report it and counter it.
On Eid al-Adha, tradition gives way to online innovation
By Richard S. Ehrlich — October 16, 2013
(RNS) Instead of going to the markets, Pakistani and Bangladeshi customers prefer websites that show photographs of live cows and goats for sacrifice.
Religious groups vie for Internet domain names
By Daniel Burke — June 19, 2012
(RNS) The Roman Catholic Church and an evangelical megachurch are among the religious groups applying for newly available Internet domain names. But as .com and .org are replaced by more specific online addresses, should names such as .Catholic and .church be under the control of religious partisans? By Daniel Burke.
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