by Adelle Banks | Mar 22, 2011 | News
(RNS) The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic holy book on Sunday (March 20) after it was found “guilty” during a “trial” at his church. “We had a court process,” said...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 21, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The White House is hoping to recruit America’s college and seminary students in a nationwide interfaith service campaign that was launched Thursday (March 17). In the next month, the Obama administration will solicit plans submitted by colleges,...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 21, 2011 | News
(RNS) Wolfgang Langhans, a Tokyo-based field director for missionaries, calls the week since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan “the busiest and most stressful week of my life.” But when those twin crises created a third—the threat of dangerous radiation leaks from...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 18, 2011 | News
(RNS) Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller said Wednesday (March 16) he never would have approved a recent covenant choir members were asked to sign urging them to be Christian and heterosexual. “I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 16, 2011 | News
(RNS) A Smithsonian museum is restoring the “Jefferson Bible,” a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself—omitting lots of theology—from portions of the New Testament. Thomas Jefferson assembled the book in 1820 when he retired after two terms as...
