by Adelle Banks | Jun 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and dugouts of the national pastime. More than two dozen members of the coalition group Faith United Against Tobacco wrote May 30 to...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 2, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., announced Tuesday (May 31) that she is leaving an Atlanta-area megachurch whose leader has been embroiled in scandal. “When I came to New Birth I came for a season and I expected that...
by Adelle Banks | May 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) Bishop Eddie Long, an Atlanta-area megachurch pastor, has settled suits out of court with four young men who accused him of sexual misconduct, his church announced Thursday (May 26). “After a series of discussions, all parties involved have decided to resolve...
by Adelle Banks | May 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral has announced plans to sell its iconic glass-walled church in Southern California to pay back creditors and overcome bankruptcy. Senior Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman, daughter of founder Robert H. Schuller, said the church will remain as a...
by Adelle Banks | May 26, 2011 | News
(RNS) Nearly two-thirds of Americans say gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal, the highest percentage ever recorded by Gallup. Researchers found that 64 percent of American adults supported legal gay relations, which Gallup has included...
