Some religious traditions and rituals emphasize eating and drinking from communal dishes –and vessels. Flu transmission may be possible in these circumstances. If flu is circulating widely in your community, faith and community leaders may consider adjusting such practices in order to reduce the spread of flu.
D.C. Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) will introduce his bill, which says that “any person . . . may marry any other eligible person regardless of gender.” The legislation, which has 10 co-sponsors including Catania, is expected to sail through the council’s committee process. Under Home Rule, Congress will have 30 legislative days to review the council’s action.
Let’s say that you neither read the story of Adam and Eve as a report on historical incident, nor believe in the goodness of human nature. What is your concept of The Fall?
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly visits St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md.
Healthy Christian communities regularly monitor themselves to identify the types of people whom they exclude, intentionally or unintentionally. In the past, most Christian communities excluded the physically challenged because buildings were not handicap accessible. People with mental challenges or behavioral control issues often exceeded (and still do in many places) a congregation’s tolerance for behavior outside conventional norms.
Doubtless, like as all nations in the diversity of speeches may know one God in the unity of faith, and be one in love; even so may divers translations understand one another, and that in the head articles and ground of our most blessed faith, though they use sundry words.
A politically conservative Christian group associated with Liberty University has decided to pray for their political opponents. Not so much for their welfare but that God will change their minds.
Armstrong releases her latest book, The Case for God. In it, she argues that religion is a practical discipline that teaches us to discover new capacities of the mind and heart.
Breaking: The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has announced that today priests who have left the Episcopal Church for a newly formed denomination can be released from their orders in the Episcopal Church for any denomination or church group of their choice.
The Diocese of Chicago will not receive new people into the ordination process in 2010 in order to evaluate and retool their discernment process so that it is in tune with the mission needs of the diocese.