Apr
25
District Attorney John Foote has kept his promise to reach out to an Oregon City church whose members have been prosecuted for failing to provide adequate medical care for their children.
Apr
24That’s the title of an essay by Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on the death of Baptist leader Cecil Sherman. Click here.
Apr
23Randall Stephens
In fall 2010 PBS will broadcast what looks to be an epic 6-part historical documentary on the American religious experience. Called God in America the program will 
feature religious studies scholars and historians alongside dramatizations and loads of prints, photographs, and illustrations. Subjects include: Franciscan Friars and the Pueblo leader Po’pay, Puritan leader John Winthrop and dissident Anne Hutchinson, Catholic Bishop John Hughes, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, reform Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise, Scopes trial combatants William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evangelist Billy Graham, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell. (See the trailer and read more on the official site. Series producer Marilyn Mellowes also worked on critically acclaimed From Jesus to the Christ: The First Christians.) The companion website promises to be a useful resource for the casual viewer and student of religious history alike.
Apr
23
Anxieties that visible signs of Islam erode national identity are combining with complaints that immigrants are stealing jobs amid the worst economic slump in decades to deepen a sense of unease in many European countries, small and large alike, over the role of Muslims in society.
Apr
22by Michael Altman
John Summers has a review of the new edition of Henry David Thoreau’s The Journal 1837-1861 edited by Damion Searls over at the New Republic. Usually, I’m interested in Thoreau because of his thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita or The Laws of Menu but Summers makes an interesting point contrasting Thoreau with his Puritan forefathers:
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Apr
22
The latest round in the battle of the burqa kicks off Thursday in Belgium, which could become the first country in Europe to ban face coverings worn by observant Muslim women.
Apr
21Apr
21The Singing Men of Texas’ North Central Texas chapter had been scheduled to do a tour of six Ukrainian cities, but flight delays due to the volcanic ash from Iceland have caused the trip to be set back several months. The choral group is sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Details here.
Apr
20
The ‘gay Jesus’ play may be hitting the stage in North Texas after all.
Apr
20 Women who dress inappropriately incite extramarital sex that in turn cause more earthquakes, a senior Iranian hard-line cleric has claimed.
