Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 16-02-2010
Ray Suarez of PBS’s The NewsHour will be among the Lenten speakers in a series organized by the Episcopal Diocese of Forth Worth – those local churches remaining a part of the Episcopal Church.
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Australia: A psychologist who helped perform exorcisms on his patients and believed in “satanic abuse” has been banned from practising by the state’s health watchdog.
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Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 15-02-2010
Israeli cult leader Goel Ratzon was indicted Sunday on multiple charges, including with rape, sodomy, enslavement, sexual abuse within the family and several other offenses.
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Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 14-02-2010
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 13-02-2010
Randall Stephens
A few weeks back Paul posted his comments from our AHA roundtable: “American Religious Historians Online.” (His thought-provoking remarks can be viewed here: “Blogging and the
(Non-) Democratization of American Religious History.”) So . . . I, too, post my comments below. Was a very rewarding session–even though, because of the early time of day and because we were slotted at the end of the conference, there were barely more people in the audience than on the platform. (At one point I swear I saw a tumbleweed role up the isle in the cavernous ballroom.) Still, we had a great exchange/Q&A at the end of the session.
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Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 13-02-2010
The Rev. Wally Chappell is a longtime United Methodist pastor who served churches around the Dallas area. He’s also a veteran teacher of the the Intensive Journal Workshop.
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The focus will be the leader of the small group One Mind Ministries, which police call a cult.
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Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 12-02-2010
Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 12-02-2010
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is strong on statistics, and doesn’t shrink from sharing them, even when they show the denomination is graying rapidly.
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