by David Gibson | Nov 11, 2011 | News
(RNS) Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno is out in the university’s burgeoning sex abuse scandal, and comparisons to the Roman Catholic Church’s own abuse scandals are in. “The parallels are too striking to ignore. A suspected predator who exploits his position to...
by Adelle Banks | Nov 11, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) It’s hard enough to get young people out of bed and into the pews on a Sunday morning, but two leading black seminaries think they have found a way to grab the next generation: hip-hop. “If we’re going to take young people seriously, we have no...
by Lauren Markoe | Nov 10, 2011 | News
A new study in the Journal of Religion and Health suggests that—at least for some women of a certain age—there’s a link between optimism and attendance at religious services. “We looked at the religious practices of nearly 100,000 women and—like it or not—found a...
by Daniel Burke | Nov 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons. Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group’s governing board that he must “immediately and significantly” reduce his...
by Lauren Markoe | Nov 10, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The failure of the “personhood” initiative in Mississippi on Tuesday (Nov. 8) intensified what appears to be a growing divide in the anti-abortion movement. Some backers of the initiative, which aimed to make abortion illegal by defining a fetus as a...
by Baptist Times Staff | Nov 10, 2011 | News
The number of people requiring emergency food in the United Kingdom is set to increase markedly over the next three or four years as the full impact of the government’s cuts are felt. That’s according to TheTrussellTrust, a Christian charity, which...
