Forum eyes fiscal woes and churches
Mar 21 2008 12:40AM
An upcoming two-day workshop will discuss the current economic downturn, its effects on churches, and what churches can do about it.
Ecumenical team to visit Sudan
Mar 20 2008 02:25AM
An international ecumenical team of church representatives will visit churches and ecumenical organizations in Sudan from March 26-April 2.
China rebuffs pope's Tibet peace plea
Mar 20 2008 02:07AM
China reacted harshly to Pope Benedict XVI's appeal for peace in Tibet Wednesday, saying "so-called tolerance cannot be extended to criminals, who must be punished according to the law."
Saudi Arabia to retrain its imams
Mar 20 2008 01:59AM
Saudi Arabia will retrain its 40,000 imams in an effort to counter militant Islam.
Cleric to U.N.:Rights need moral base
Mar 20 2008 01:54AM
Senior Russian Orthodox leader Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad told a forum at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday that human rights must involve religious-based morality.
Again, leave Obama's church alone
Column: God Said What?
Mar 20 2008 01:52AM
What do you know about the tradition and culture of the African-American Church? Have you ever actually visited Trinity United Church of Christ?
Dalai Lama willing to go to Beijing
Mar 20 2008 01:32AM
The Dalai Lama on Thursday said he is willing to go to Beijing if some concrete proposal comes from the Chinese Government.
Philippines discourages self-crucifiers
Mar 20 2008 01:27AM
Philippines officials are doing their best to discourage zealous Catholics from practicing self-flagellation and crucifixion, which are regularly seen in the country.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Mar 20 2008 01:23AM
Our view of others can be so subtle in our consciousness that we don't realize how we affect our relationship with them.
Column: wavelength
Mar 20 2008 01:20AM
Psychologically speaking, spring is a time of individuation. Yet, all the pushing and pulling is essentially a drive for that one, very, all-encompassing state of being called balance.
Black pastor slams Wright's message
Mar 20 2008 01:18AM
Black minister and Harvard Law School graduate Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., began a campaign to make clear that Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial pastor, does not represent black preachers.
Central Asia suffering killer winter
Mar 20 2008 01:15AM
Central Asia is suffering through its worst winter in at least 30 years, and Southern Baptists moved to help isolated villages in danger of starvation.
UK bishops in Holy Week shoe-shine
Mar 20 2008 12:55AM
Bishops across England are getting on their knees Maundy Thursday to shine the shoes of office workers and shoppers in towns and cities across the country, inspired by the Last Supper when Jesus washed his disciples' feet.
Who was that naked man with Jesus?
Column: A Heretic in Babylon
Mar 20 2008 12:53AM
If you liked 'The Da Vinci Code' and the 'Jesus Family Tomb,' you'll love this story.
Okla. lawmaker stands firm on gays
Mar 20 2008 12:47AM
Oklahoma House Representative Sally Kern is standing firm in her convictions on the immorality and danger of the homosexual lifestyle, despite some 30,000 emails condemning her, including hateful rhetoric and some death threats.
Happiness linked to giving to others
Mar 20 2008 12:24AM
Money can buy happiness if you spend it on someone else, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.
Islamic institute honors U.S. Jesuit
Mar 20 2008 12:20AM
Germany's Central Islamic Archive Institute awarded a U.S. Jesuit theologian, Father Thomas Michel, the Mohammed Nafi Tschelebi international peace prize.
Transformed heart
Mar 19 2008 02:24AM
Please, Father, flood me with your grace and power to forgive. Transform me from the inside out. I cannot face another day with the burden of hate I'm carrying.
Column: Sex and Society
Mar 19 2008 02:11AM
After spending her physical beauty plying the sex trade for a few years, the glamorous call girl ends up just like the average streetwalker.
Catholic group slams Canada bishops
Mar 19 2008 02:09AM
A group of Catholics is challenging Canada's Catholic bishops to revisit the Winnipeg Statement written on Sept. 27, 1968, which is the Canadian bishops' dissent against Rome's absolute prohibition on contraception.
Group urges parties to defend marriage
Mar 19 2008 02:07AM
The Alliance for Marriage Foundation (AFMF) on Wednesday called on both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to include language supporting the Marriage Protection Amendment in their 2008 platforms.
Column: New Houses from Old Bricks
Mar 19 2008 02:04AM
We're taught that the greater the sacrifice, the greater the love. But perhaps 'laying down one's life' doesn't always mean dying - it could mean living for someone or something.
Column: Bluebonnet
Mar 19 2008 01:52AM
I'm wondering if I could ever approach the rest of this great, big world of ours with the same consideration, courtesy and civility that I give to our ocean world and its inhabitants.
Netherlands braces for anti-Islam film
Mar 19 2008 01:49AM
The Netherlands is bracing for a film made by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker who says death threats could not deter him from exposing the dangers of Islam.
Bin Laden vows vengeance on EU
Mar 19 2008 01:43AM
Osama bin Laden threatened the European Union with "grave" retribution Wednesday for publication of cartoons mocking Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
Faith leaders protest poverty wages
Mar 19 2008 01:36AM
Forty years ago Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers making poverty wages, but faith leaders say millions of Americans still earn poverty wages.
Gorbachev admits he's a Christian
Mar 19 2008 01:29AM
Nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union's atheist empire, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted he is a Christian.
Pope urges dialogue in Tibet
Mar 19 2008 01:19AM
Pope Benedict XVI follows "with great trepidation" the events in Tibet and feels "sadness and sorrow in the face of so much suffering," he said.
Turkey's Alevi sect fights for rights
Mar 19 2008 01:19AM
Members of Turkey's Alevi sect, an unorthodox branch of Islam, say they feel discriminated against in the mostly Sunni country.
Authors lay bare Rwanda genocide
Mar 19 2008 01:09AM
Authors Emmanuel M. Kolini, the Anglican Archbishop of Rwanda, and Dr. Peter Holmes take a deeply personal look deep into the soul of evil as they record the sufferings of those caught up in the Rwanda genocide of 1994.
Dalai Lama may 'step aside'
Mar 19 2008 12:52AM
The Dalai Lama "has no intention of resigning, but he is ready to step aside for democracy in Tibet," according to Kesang Takla, Foreign Minister for the Tibetan government in exile.
Why should Christians buy into Plato?
Mar 19 2008 12:43AM
Was Plato a pre-Christian 'prophet,' 'preparing the way of the Lord'? Some ancient Christians thought 'Yes.'
Column: Roll Down Like Water
Mar 19 2008 12:42AM
As we reach the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, it is time to bury our war dead and pray for their (and our) peace.
Librarian fired for reporting child porn
Mar 19 2008 12:37AM
Liberty Counsel is challenging the firing of Assistant Librarian Brenda Biesterfeld in Lindsay, Calif., who was fired shortly after she reported to police that a man was viewing child pornography on a library computer.
Column: Love, God and Sex
Mar 19 2008 12:26AM
There's nothing like living 24/7 with someone who reminds you constantly of Jesus' injunction to 'love one another.' It can be work, but to me, it's the best job in the entire universe!
Tibetan leaders mount hunger strike
Mar 19 2008 12:18AM
Exiled Tibetan leaders launched a day-long hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Wednesday to protest the Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
UK study: Faith makes people happier
Mar 18 2008 02:46AM
Another study has found that sincere and active religious belief makes people happy, the Daily Mail reports. Statistics have shown repeatedly that church attendance, family life and stable marriages are the building blocks of a happy life.
Thank God for prostitutes
Column: God In Real Time
Mar 18 2008 02:29AM
At least the Eliot Spitzer scandal has caused us as a nation to examine our moral compass and bring God back into the conversation about sex.
Vatican, Israel talks move forward
Mar 18 2008 02:10AM
An atmosphere of "great cordiality" exixted between Vatican and Israeli delegations that met in Tel Aviv Monday for a new stage of negotiations aimed at resolving questions related to Church assets and their fiscal status.
Pot found more harmful than tobacco
Mar 18 2008 02:08AM
Marijuana smoking poses a greater risk of lung cancer than tobacco smoking, with just one marijuana joint being as harmful as smoking 20 cigarettes, a recent study by researchers in New Zealand said.
Early Easter
Mar 18 2008 02:06AM
No one alive today has ever seen or will ever see an earlier Easter than the one this year.
Dalai Lama urges end to Tibet violence
Mar 18 2008 01:57AM
The Dalai Lama Tuesday called for an end to the violence in Tibet and rejected China's accusations that he was responsible for the recent unrest.
Butterflies and roses
Mar 18 2008 01:40AM
What if everything that is challenging you came with the assurance that when you have had the courage to surmount it, you would receive a wonderful reward? Would we look at it differently?
Unroll Your Soul and I Will Vacuum Your Carpet
Mar 18 2008 01:28AM
My crush on Jimmy Olsen gets me into trouble one more time.
Column: All Paths
Mar 18 2008 01:24AM
Jimmy Carter asked the U.S. Olympic Team to boycott the 1980 Olympics after the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan. President Bush should call for a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to protest China's treatment of Tibet.
Column: PERFECTBALANCELIFE
Mar 18 2008 12:50AM
Having sex with the wrong partner is not just a matter of endangering one's physical well-being. It affects your mental, emotional and psychological well-being.
Living a life that matters
Mar 18 2008 12:42AM
A disability may require adjustments and adaptations; a disability does not mean exclusion from living a full, whole life according to one's own definition.
Most Russians are religious: Survey
Mar 18 2008 12:40AM
Most Russians believe in God, consider themselves religious and Orthodox, view faith as the source of meaning in life and that the Church's main role is to support social mores, according to a survey.
Saudis may allow Catholic church
Mar 17 2008 02:40AM
The Vatican is negotiating with the Saudi Arabian government to allow construction of a Catholic church in that country, Vatican Radio reports.