by Adelle Banks | Aug 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) Two and a half weeks after the sudden death of its president, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has named a nephew of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as its new leader. Isaac Newton Farris Jr., 48, was elected on Monday (Aug. 15) to lead the...
by Alice Speri | Aug 16, 2011 | News
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Like many American Muslims, Asim Khan is tired of the prejudice against his religion. The president of the New Jersey chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America welcomes the curiosity. But he wishes those with questions about Islam would ask him...
by Adelle Banks | Aug 16, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A black denomination that began 50 years ago in support of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has decried the “disrespect” shown to President Obama since he took office. Citing slurs and remarks such as “you lie, “boy” and “tar baby,” the Progressive...
by Jack Jenkins | Aug 16, 2011 | News
(RNS) Members of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) have elected an Ohio pastor as their new head bishop, making him the first non-provisional leader of the year-old denomination. The Rev. John Bradosky was elected Aug. 11 by 800 NALC members who met in...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 16, 2011 | News
As the Iowa Straw Poll came to life Saturday morning, a man wearing an NRA T-shirt and driving a golf cart for Michele Bachmann’s campaign plowed into a group of people. Before day’s end, Bachmann’s campaign similarly rode to victory in the first...
by David Gibson | Aug 15, 2011 | News
(RNS) Does European Christendom need Christianity to survive? It may seen an odd question for a religious culture that once stretched from Britain to the Bosphorus, born of a deep and diffuse faith that inspired great cathedrals and monasteries and filled them with...
