by Kevin Eckstrom | Apr 26, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that would make it harder for protesters from a fringe Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, to protest outside military funerals. The Sanctity of Eternal Rest for Veterans Act, introduced by Sen....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 26, 2011 | News
Christian-right activist David Barton said on his radio program last week that “net neutrality” was against the biblical principle of the free market. “Net neutrality sounds really good, but it is socialism on the internet,” said Barton,...
by Daniel Burke | Apr 25, 2011 | News
(RNS) As Christians worldwide prepare to celebrate Easter, they will follow a familiar chronology: Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on “the third day,” in the words of the ancient Nicene Creed. But if Jesus died at 3 p.m. Friday and vacated...
by Cathy Lynn Grossman | Apr 25, 2011 | News
(RNS) This weekend, Jeanne O’Hair, her friends and family will raise their voices in Easter hymns “as the spirit leads us,” she says, in her “house church”—O’Hair’s living room in Brea, Calif. In a metal outbuilding at a shuttered horse track near San Antonio, Jeff...
by Alessandro Speciale | Apr 25, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told a mother that her comatose son can feel her “presence” and “love,” even if he is “unable to understand the details” or her “words.” Benedict answered questions in a rare Good Friday (April 22) appearance on the Italian State...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 25, 2011 | News
President Barack Obama says he wants to end President George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Republican leaders say “no” to taxes. Americans say tax the rich. The debate over taxes has begun with intensity. Obama called last week for...
