Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Terry Mattingly

Home
Religion News

Archives

--Year-- 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 --Month-- December November October September August July June May April March February January

December 2002

December 11, 2002

Tolkien, creation & sin

NEW YORK -- Screenwriter Philippa Boyens gets a tired look in her eyes when she...

December 04, 2002

A priest keeps his collar

Father Mark Pearson can see trouble coming as he walks the sidewalks of Boston.He can...

November 2002

November 27, 2002

Trying to do the Muslim math

Researchers at Hartford Seminary's Institute for Religious Research began with seven different lists of mosques...

November 20, 2002

Spirituality in the workplace?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Tim J. McGuire is a baseball fan, but that wasn't why...

November 13, 2002

Goodbye, Democrats. Hello, what?

It was sometime during the hearings into whether Judge Priscilla Owen was fit to serve...

November 06, 2002

Worship for sale, worship for sale

In the beginning, there were the Jesus People.They had long hair and short memories and...

October 2002

October 30, 2002

Truckers, snipers & prayer

There are still churches left in this land where folks gather every Wednesday night for...

October 23, 2002

Neo-traditional born-again dads

They show up for dinner, help with homework, lead the rituals of bedtime and park...

October 16, 2002

Krispy Kreme Catholics & the Baptist Vatican

NASHVILLE -- As a boy in upstate New York, Father Bob Dalton learned how to...

October 09, 2002

MIA — Spiritual fathers for spiritual sons

Sometimes the bishop calls the priest and sometimes the priest calls the bishop.But one way...

October 02, 2002

Veggies attack the funny gap

While flipping through TV channels the other night, VeggieTales writer Mike Nawrocki discovered an absolutely...

September 2002

September 25, 2002

What is NON-religion news?

It is Martin Marty's custom to rise at 4:44 a.m. for coffee and prayer, while...

September 18, 2002

My Big, Fat, Greek Mystery

To the faithful, there was nothing new about hearing an ancient litany in Greek.But it...

September 11, 2002

Spirituality up, doctrine down

During the 1990s, pollster George Barna released many reports showing that Americans were growing less...

September 04, 2002

High Holy Days, one year later

The ritual could not have been more familiar, but Rabbi Howard Shapiro found it almost...

August 2002

August 28, 2002

Elvis, a prodigal son?

As the woman reached the stage, the musicians behind Elvis Presley could see that she...

August 21, 2002

Missionary cohabitating, Part II

From the pulpit, the typical pastor can see all kinds of people whose ears will...

August 14, 2002

Missionary cohabitating, Part I

Church people have a name for what happens when young believers get romantically involved with...

August 07, 2002

Topless culture wars in Idaho

Strange things happen when it gets hot in Moscow, Idaho.In the summer of 1998, three...

July 2002

July 31, 2002

Alchemy comes to Canterbury

In the halls of Anglican power, the leader of the tiny Church of Wales is...

July 24, 2002

Yes, there is a Mitford

Just north of Columbia, S.C., there is an unincorporated community called Mitford.As far as author...

July 17, 2002

Degrading the Catholic bishops

Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings rarely cover religious rites, but they would certainly...

July 10, 2002

The Church — going, going, gone?

For two millennia, if you knew a church's name then you knew something about the...

July 03, 2002

The pledge of conformity

Instead of creating a mere educational program, the Baptist minister set out to write something...

June 2002

June 26, 2002

Trust your feelings, Darth?

No wonder Anakin Skywalker seems so confused.Every time the Jedi apprentice turns around, a spiritual...

June 19, 2002

Where does the Baptist buck stop?

The clergy sexual abuse statistics were staggering.Local reports from angry, hurt and humiliated laypeople were...

June 12, 2002

A Vatican email gap?

For years, Father Joseph F. Wilson studied the U.S. Catholic clergy register, following the career...

June 05, 2002

Religion, relief and risk in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON -- There are rumblings from western Afghanistan that the office for the "Promotion of...

May 2002

May 29, 2002

Buddhism for sale

It was a logical question for the Dalai Lama to ask his Jewish visitors, yet...

May 22, 2002

Which Church of the Nativity?

The Gate of Humility into the Church of the Nativity is just over four feet...