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2014-01-10T21:41:40-05:00

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News flash! AP ends the Great Schism of 1054!

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 9:41 pm By tmatt

Many moons ago — just under a quarter of a century — I covered a major ecumenical event in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. I believe it was a festive Divine Eucharist marking the departure of Bishop William C. Frey, as he exited to serve as dean and president of the Trinity School for Ministry. One of the honored participants in the service was Denver Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, who was a national level figure in Catholic ecumenical efforts (and... Read more

2014-01-09T14:33:09-05:00

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CNN finds missing voices in ‘atheist’ pastor’s media blitz

Last updated on: January 9, 2014 at 2:33 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Earlier this week, I posted on Ryan Bell, the Seventh-day Adventist pastor who gave up his faith to focus on granting media interviews. I kid. I kid. What I meant to say is that Bell has decided to “live without God” for a year so that he can flirt with atheism. The free national headlines are, apparently, just a bonus. In my previous post, I raised concerns about missing voices in a Religion News Service story: RNS quotes a few sources besides... Read more

New Year''s resolutions

pastors losing their faith

Ryan Bell

Seventh-day Adventists

2014-01-09T09:50:23-05:00

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No sex please, we’re Indian

Last updated on: January 9, 2014 at 9:50 am By geoconger

Rape and religion returned to the front pages of India’s newspapers this week after a judge in Delhi stated premarital sex was sinful. The Hindu reported: Pre-marital sex is “immoral” and against the “tenets of every religion”, a Delhi court has said while holding that every act of sexual intercourse between two adults on the promise of marriage does not become rape. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat also held that a woman, especially grown up, educated and office-going, who has... Read more

2014-01-08T12:14:27-05:00

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What? The press overlooked key Catholic stories in 2013?

Last updated on: January 8, 2014 at 12:14 pm By tmatt

First of all, I would like to stress that I had already decided, several days ago, to write the following post in praise of John L. Allen, Jr., and his relentless focus on the Catholic-beat news missed by so many other scribes. That’s my story, friends and neighbors, and I am sticking to it. In other words, I am not writing this post today because of the rather stunning announcement — almost universally cheered in religion-news land — that that... Read more

National Catholic Reporter

The Boston Globe

2014-01-08T09:27:25-05:00

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Wives, submission, web traffic and Candace Cameron Bure

Last updated on: January 8, 2014 at 9:27 am By Tamie Ross

Candace Cameron Bure, darling of ’80s sitcom television, is all grown up. In case you’re mired in Nick at Nite reruns of “Full House” and hadn’t heard, the younger sister of fellow actor Kirk Cameron has been married for 17 years, has three teenage children and is on her second book tour. She calls herself a devout evangelical Christian and, while on tour promoting said second book, has been peppered specifically about a chapter where she explains her take on... Read more

2014-01-07T22:23:02-05:00

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What can we say? Boston Globe hires John L. Allen, Jr.

Last updated on: January 7, 2014 at 10:23 pm By tmatt

For several decades now, I have been telling mainstream newsroom managers that all they have to do to improve religion-news coverage is to approach the beat the same way they approach any other major news beat that they respect, such as politics, sports, politics, education, politics and, of course, entertainment gossip. What’s the magic formula? Here is what I had to say in a 1995 lecture to the editors of Scripps Howard newspapers: So, you’re a manager in a newsroom... Read more

National Catholic Reporter

2014-01-07T12:35:16-05:00

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Daily Mail: Welby ‘casts out sin’ in new baptismal rite — not

Last updated on: January 7, 2014 at 12:35 pm By Mark Kellner

In my opinion, looking to London’s Daily Mail for religion news coverage is rather like looking to People magazine for peer-reviewed medical studies. Once in a great while there might just be a People article that accurately references some startling medical development — and the studies behind same — but that’s not the publication’s stock-in-trade. So when the celebrity-saturated British tabloid — “Buffy The Vampire Player: Sarah Michelle Gellar has a blast with daughter Charlotte and her pal as they enjoy day at the... Read more

2014-01-06T21:53:01-05:00

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Are there different versions of Islam’s Quran?

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 9:53 pm By Richard Ostling

DUANE ASKS: Are there different versions of the Quran or just different interpretations of the one version? THE GUY ANSWERS: Since early in the history of Islam, only one Quran text in the original Arabic language has been fully authorized. However, as with most religious matters, the story is complicated. The religion teaches that the Quran existed eternally in heaven before angels gradually revealed the words little by little to the Prophet Muhammad between the year 620 C.E. (“Common Era”)... Read more

2014-01-06T20:25:51-05:00

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An ‘atheist’ Adventist’s alienation: any missing voices?

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 8:25 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

The most popular story on Religion News Service’s website right now involves a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who has decided to flirt with atheism for a year: (RNS) California pastor Ryan Bell has a novel New Year’s resolution. For one year, he proclaimed, he will “live without God.” It’s an odd resolution for an ordained minister, former church pastor, teacher at two highly regarded Christian universities and church consultant. Yet for the next 12 months, Bell, 42, plans to refrain from praying, reading... Read more

New Year''s resolutions

pastors losing their faith

Ryan Bell

Seventh-day Adventists

2014-01-06T13:12:50-05:00

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Hail Epiphany and farewell to Christmas (and white Santas)

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 1:12 pm By tmatt

First things first: I hope that readers who are into that whole Christian calendar had a great 12 days of the real Christmas season, as opposed to the six or seven weeks of whatever that is that ends with an explosion of wrapping paper on Dec. 25. Did anyone throw 12th night parties? So this brings us to the great Feast of Epiphany, which in our ancient churches is the second most important day on the calendar after Easter/Pascha. More... Read more

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