by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 29, 2011 | News
Some 300 middle-Tennessee leaders of faith are expected to attend a Nov. 30 breakfast in Nashville, Tenn., focused on faith and immigration. Organized by Clergy for Tolerance, the keynote speaker is scheduled to be William Willimon, bishop of the North Alabama...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Nov 28, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The number of religious advocacy groups in the nation’s capital has more than tripled since the 1970s, with conservative groups seeing the biggest growth, according to a new report. Together, faith-based lobbying and advocacy groups spend $390 million...
by Marcia Pledger | Nov 28, 2011 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) Northeast Ohio native Suhad Hasan says neither her Muslim faith nor her headscarf should be an issue where she works. But she said they were while she was a sales associate at the Old Navy clothing store in Santa Clara, Calif., three years ago. Hasan...
by David Gibson | Nov 28, 2011 | News
(RNS) If Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can secure the nomination, his Mormon faith shouldn’t be an obstacle for voters in the general election, according to a survey released Wednesday (Nov. 23). That may be a big “if.” The survey from the Pew Research...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 28, 2011 | News
The new issue of a prestigious Baptist theological journal focuses on the longstanding problem among Baptists – race – but with a different twist. The fall 2011 volume of the Review & Expositor presents “examples of racial and cultural progress that could...
by Kimberly Winston | Nov 23, 2011 | News
(RNS) The young man in the video pulls in close to his computer camera with the trappings of a typical college dorm room—a loft bed and the clutter of cast-off clothes—piled behind him. Alex Fiorentini isn’t talking about girls, beer or football. Instead, it’s a...
