The Archive

Year: 2006

Christians in Palestine

February 15, 2006 No Comments

Episcopal News Service has an interview with the Rt. Rev. Riah Abu El-Assal, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem on Hamas’ victory in the recent Palestinian elections,

The last “Daniel”

February 14, 2006 11 Comments

The final episode of The Book of Daniel is available on NBC’s site unitl Friday.

$1 worth of good

February 14, 2006 1 Comment

What is the greatest amount of good you can do with a single dollar? This probing piece on Slate examines that quesiton and concludes “that

The campaign against mainline denominations

February 14, 2006 28 Comments

If you are a regular visitor to this site, you know that we are working on a story about the role of secular right-wing foundations

Padre Mambo’s sermon on Evolution Sunday

February 14, 2006 6 Comments

Our friend Padre Mambo stepped up to the challenge of Evolution Sunday with this sermon.

Preaching Darwin

February 13, 2006 17 Comments

Yesterday, for those of you who missed it–and that would include me–was Evolution Sunday, a day on which “ministers at several hundred churches around the

The Song of Songs

February 13, 2006 No Comments

Maybe this is simplay a matter of religion writers hunting for a fresh angle on Valentine’s Day. Or maybe it is that most-beloved of journalistic

Mary Magdalene

February 10, 2006 4 Comments

The DaVinci Code may spark renewed interest in Mary Magdalene—considering that the film claims that she and Jesus married, had children and that their descendents

Sony’s cagey, counterintuitive stroke

February 9, 2006 2 Comments

How’s this for clever? Knowing that its upcoming film The Da Vinci Code is going to be started with criticism for the bizarre historical distortions

To divest or to “positively engage”?

February 9, 2006 5 Comments

The Church of England, meeting in its General Synod, voted this week “to disinvest church funds from companies profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian