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9/11 Families Shocked After Supreme Court Rejects Burial Appeal
WASHINGTON (RNS) Relatives of 9/11 victims who believe debris from Ground Zero contains human remains and should be given a suitable burial said they are “shocked” that the Supreme Court on Monday (Oct. 4) refused to...
Top Canadian Orthodox Bishop on Leave for Misconduct
TORONTO (RNS) One of Canada’s top Eastern Orthodox hierarchs has resigned his duties and been granted a leave of absence following allegations by police of “misconduct” going back decades. Archbishop Seraphim of...
How Ministry Success is Like Golfer’s $11 Million Shot
Did you see Jim Furyk's $11 million golf shot? The man with a golf swing like "an octopus falling out of a tree" made a great shot out of a wet sand bunker, leaving a two-and-a-half foot putt to win the Tour...
Questioning the Quran: A Coptic Scholar under Fire
On Sept. 21, in a Coptic Orthodox conference in Egypt, Bishop Bishoy, head of the Coptic Church's theological council, wondered whether some verses in the Quran were written during Muhammad's life or might have been...
EthicsDaily.com Tackles Forbidden, Contentious Topic of Faith and Taxes
Cliff Vaughn and I crisscrossed the United States over the past year interviewing members of three Abrahamic faith traditions for a documentary about how they read their sacred texts and apply those moral teachings in...
Druids get Official OK in Britain
LONDON (RNS) Druidry, the pagan worship that has been practiced on these shores for thousands of years, on Friday (Oct. 1) gained recognition by the British government as an official religion after a four-year legal...
Mormon President Says Church Needs More Missionaries
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Despite an impressive number of men and women preaching the Mormon gospel across the globe, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints needs even more missionaries, LDS President...
Pope, in Sicily, Denounces Mob
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI spent Sunday (Oct. 3) in the heartland of the Sicilian Mafia, denouncing organized crime and paying tribute to those slain in the long struggle against the mob. “Don’t give in to...
Atheists Score Best on Religious-Knowledge Quiz
A new poll released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed results that seem quite surprising at first. On a pop quiz of religious knowledge, people who identified themselves as atheists and agnostics...
Baptists: Voices of Reason or Bitter Rhetoric?
Where are the voices of reason in today's overheated, overreaching rhetorical environment? As midterm elections draw closer and bitterness over mosque construction has spread across the country, the discord within...
EthicsDaily.com Releases New Documentary on Faith and Taxes
With anti-taxers at a fever pitch and politicians locked in an angry stalemate over taxation, EthicsDaily.com announces the release of a documentary on faith and taxes that promises to bring calm, civil and deeply...
It’s how you play
With the baseball playoffs finally set and football on every hand, we're reminded that success is generally measured by who manages to finish the strongest and hold the lead at the end. A NASCAR driver may dominate the...
Christians Call for Calm After Indian Verdict on Holy Site
Bangalore, India (RNS/ENInews) Churches in India have joined other faiths and political leaders in calling for calm after a court ruled that a religious site violently disputed by Hindus and Muslims should be split...
Methodist Agency Drops Support of One Nation Rally
WASHINGTON (RNS) A United Methodist agency has withdrawn its endorsement from this weekend’s One Nation Working Together rally here, an event that has drawn support from religious progressive groups. In a Friday (Oct....
Judge Rejects Suit Against Religious Language at Capitol Visitor Center
WASHINGTON (RNS) A federal judge has dismissed a suit arguing that engravings of “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center here are unconstitutional. The suit by the Freedom From...
Misinterpreted Scripture Protects Domestic Abusers
While domestic violence occurs in all socio-economic, ethnic and religious communities, there is something particularly heinous about its occurrence in Christian communities that claim a high view of the Bible. One...
Understanding the Lost Politics of Jesus
Editor's note: EthicsDaily.com has been carrying columns by Jim Evans since the site launched in 2002. We originally carried a version of the column below in April 2006. We run this column now as it is as relevant as...
Oklahoma CBF Seeks Input to National CBF’s 2012 Task Force
Funding career missionaries and adjusting the size of the Atlanta staff are the twin goals that the Coordinating Council of the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma hopes the national Cooperative Baptist...
Is competition healthy?
A new Applebee's restaurant has been under construction in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., over the past few months. I've watched its progress each Sunday morning en route to the essential hazelnut coffee at a nearby...
So, what’s God doing?
In the past few years, I've noticed a common theme in the presentations and books of church leadership gurus like Leonard Sweet and Alan Roxburgh, often echoed in the preaching and writing of denominational leaders and...
Mich. Attorney General Defends Campaign Against Gay Student
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) An assistant attorney general in Michigan is defending his rights as a “Christian private citizen” to denounced the openly gay student body president of the University of Michigan. Assistant...