Tag: Religion in America

Live as if you made $50,000 a year … and give everything else away. Take a year to surrender yourself.

When the residents of this aristocratic avenue discovered that they were in danger of seeing a Roman Catholic church spring up among them, with all that the establishment of such a church implied, they bestirred themselves to oppose the project. The wisest of the Roman Catholics here did not favor it, and St. Mary’s was induced to exchange the lot for a good one in some other locality.”

An 18 year old Muslim woman was not hired because she wears a headscarf.

There is a danger that as anti-Muslim prejudice increases — as it has recently in reaction to the proposed community center near Ground Zero — alienated young Muslims will turn away from the peaceful path advocated by their elders in America’s mosques. So far, that has not happened on a large scale.

Didn’t have the time/will yesterday for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally? Neither did we. But someone did, and found that Beck is positioning himself to receive a mantle he may not be prepared to bear.

Handed the title of “World Teacher” by a group that looks for signs of a savior, San Francisco’s Raj Patel gave it back.

The Anglican churches are often described as having a Catholic liturgy welded to a Calvinist 39 Articles. In the last few centuries the drift within

The Episcopal Church is a member of the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of Churches which issued a statement defending the right of

Obama quotes Scripture as “wisdom literature” to be applied to contemporary issues in a pluralistic way. The lessons Obama draws publicly from the Bible also conform to his rational and pragmatic sides.

More than 40 prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars have issued a statement condemning the “xenophobia and religious bigotry” fueling the increasingly strident opposition to a proposed mosque near Ground Zero. These leaders from New York City and across the country are specifically challenging the divisive rhetoric of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.