“Nones” not on the bus
Interview with religion scholar Diana Butler Bass, author of PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly:
Interview with religion scholar Diana Butler Bass, author of PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly:
Every year knitters from around the church make gifts for seafarers.
The Knights have spent millions of dollars that could have been devoted to tending the sick, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked to depriving gay and lesbian people of equal treatment under the law. In the process they are undermining the stability of households led by same-sex parents and jeopardizing the well-being of those couples’ children. You can hang many labels on this kind of behavior, but pro-family is not one of them.
Mary Frances Schjonberg reports from Aotearoa New Zealand for
There are many people who were still living in tents or in unsafe housing, and the hurricane took away what shelter they had. Hurricane Sandy has left many people displaced and with no place to turn to. Many families in Haiti already had a difficult time providing for their families. Now after the hurricane, it is more difficult to find food to eat, and people who give food cannot provide for everyone who needs it.
…perhaps God has sent the Occupy movement, and its self-identified Christian participants, to be another Francis of Assisi, i.e., to call the Church to remember Jesus’ commitment to the poor, to use our wealth for the good of all, and, on our knees, to pass through the eye of the needle into the fullness of God’s kingdom.
And he said to them, ‘Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, “Friend, lend