Jan
24
U.S.-based International Christian Concern said the January 17 violence in the city of Udaipur in Rajastha beganwhen members of the radical Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsavak Sangh raided the Faith Calvary Church prayer meeting armed with machetes, axes and sticks “and proceeded to beat Pastor Surajth Bhagari and church members of the church.”
Jan
23In the wake of Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti, Mark Hulsether explores the top five ways that Robertson is dangerous, which often are overshadowed by Robertson’s bombastic rhetoric. Over at Religion Dispatches, Hulsether explores the prevalence of Robertson’s ignorant comments and notes that the focus on outrageousness of Robertson’s claims often obscures his commonality with “mainline” conservatives. The media frenzy that surrounds Robertson also means that the more pressing dangers of the minister’s career go unmentioned or ignored. (For a clip of Robertson’s comments, check Paul’s post here.) Read the rest of this entry »
Jan
23The Sunday program begins at 5 p.m., at the Center for Spiritual Living, 4801 Spring Valley road, Dallas, Tx 75244.
Jan
23
A leading critic of Scientology is to travel to Australia to support Senator Nick Xenophon’s campaign for an inquiry into the tax-exempt status of the church.
Jan
22
Paul Harvey
Jan
22If you’re in the mood for what’s described as “Born Again Lesbian Music,” Midway Hills Christian Church will be offering a concert by Marsha Stevens-Pino on Jan. 29.
Jan
22
Muslim groups reacted angrily Wednesday after it emerged that the U.S. military is using combat rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.
Jan
21Randall Stephens
Mark Twain was fond of the sharp barb, the straight shot, the cutting colloquial witticism, the carefully turned phrase. He liked to contrast trim American prose with the tangle of Teutonic verbiage. Whoever invented German, he quipped in “The Awful German Language” (1880), “seems to have taken pleasure in complicating it in every way he could think of.”
Jan
21A group of local United Methodist ministers who occasionally play rock-and-roll to raise money for charity will give a Haiti benefit concert Friday.
Jan
21
Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey found.