Feb
27What about Southern Irreligion?
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 27-02-2010
Art Remillard
Feb
27Bourgeois to speak in Dallas on women’s ordination to priesthood
Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 27-02-2010
The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Catholic priest and peace activist who favors women’s ordination to the priesthood, will give a program in Dallas tomorrow (Sat., 2-27) titled “Shattering the Stained Glass Ceiling.”
Feb
26Witness: Accused cult leaders had her committed to keep quiet
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 26-02-2010
A woman who once lived with three accused cult leaders testified Thursday that they had her involuntarily committed to a mental hospital to keep her quiet about a toddler’s starvation death.
Feb
25Mother says she agreed to starve son to rid him of demonic spirit
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 25-02-2010
The mother of a dead child testified Wednesday that she agreed to starve her toddler son, who refused to say “amen,” to rid him of a demonic spirit that was potentially placed there when her own mother offered the boy up to the devil.
Feb
24TEXAS FAITH: Obama, Congress, CEOs and leadership styles
Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 24-02-2010
After a year in office, President Obama is coming under scrutiny from both left and right for his leadership. But so is Congress. The public’s faith in it as an institution is not so great. And, for that matter, the public seems non-plussed with the leadership of large businesses.
Feb
24Kenya: Thousands pray for pastors to rise from dead
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 24-02-2010
Two pastors in Kenya’s Kingdom Seekers Fellowship International church were killed in a road accident on Monday last week. The faithful believed that God would resurrect them if they prayed hard enough.
Feb
23Religion in American Politics: A Short History (Review)
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 23-02-2010
Religion in American Politics: A Short History
(review reprinted from the newest issue of Journal of Church and State; pdf available here)
Feb
23C Street house target of clergy’s IRS complaint
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 23-02-2010
Three times now, including a complaint they plan to file today against the secretive C Street Center in Washington, D.C., the activist pastors have challenged the tax-exempt status of religious organizations they believe have improperly dabbled in partisan politics.
Feb
21Listen America!
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 21-02-2010
Randall Stephens
When Jerry Falwell issued his call to arms Listen America! in 1980, he intended to rally the troops. Or to use another metaphor, them dry bones needed reanimatin’. Falwell’s words 
leapt from the page like shouts from a megaphone. “Listen, America! Our nation is on a perilous path in regard to her political, economic, and military positions.”
Feb
21Summum sect asks to erect monument while suit is pending
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 21-02-2010
Summum, a small sect based on Gnostic Christianity, is suing Pleasant Grove, Utah seeking to erect a display of its Seven Aphorisms in a park in Pleasantgrove, Utah.