Sep

24

Irish High Court grants transfusion order for Jehovah’s Witness baby

Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 24-09-2011

Jehovah's Witnesses Ireland’s High Court has made an order allowing the Coombe Hospital in Dublin to carry out an emergency blood transfusion on a baby girl born prematurely last week.

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Sep

23

US Couple Threatened With $500-Per-Meeting Fines For Home Bible Study

Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 23-09-2011

San Juan Capistrano A San Juan Capistrano, California, has been ordered to stop holding a Bible study in their home on the grounds that the meeting violates a city ordinance as a church and not as a private gathering.

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Sep

22

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice: Interview with Jennifer Graber at Religion Dispatches

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 22-09-2011

Paul Harvey


Shortly after the publication of Jennifer Graber’s outstanding work The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press), we blogged about it here, and we’ve also blogged about Jennifer’s outstanding recent article in Church History, drawn from her next project about the meanings of war, violence, and religion in the nineteenth-century Indian wars (if you think The Furnace of Affliction is depressing, try reading the article, where the violence of the 19th-century frontier wars comes out in illuminatingly dark detail). The Historical Society blog also has interviewed Graber, posted here back last March. Here is Randall’s introduction to the book and interview, which hits at some of the main themes of interest:

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Sep

22

Robin Murphy, involved in Satanic cult murders, back in prison

Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 22-09-2011

Robin Marie Murphy Robin Murphy is back in prison.

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Sep

21

The Bible Belt Blues

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 21-09-2011


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Sep

21

TEXAS FAITH: Is monotheism superior?

Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 21-09-2011

The three Abrahamic faiths are known for being monotheistic religions. They worship one Deity, even though they may leave room for several concepts of the Divine. For example, Christians believe in the Trinity.

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Sep

21

Christians in Mexico forced from village; threatened with crucifixion or lynching

Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 21-09-2011

Mexico About 70 Protestant Christians lived in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, Puebla state, until last week Monday, when they faced a frightening ultimatum leave immediately or be crucified or lynched.

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Sep

20

Noebel Cause: Summit Ministries Director Retires

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 20-09-2011

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Sep

19

Back to the Future: Christianity and the American Founding

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 19-09-2011

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Sep

18

Meta #Metta; or, If You Want World Peace, Pay Your Parking Tickets

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 18-09-2011

Paul Harvey

It’s official: Ron Artest (forward for the Los Angeles Lakers) has changed his name to Metta World Peace. I do not find it quite as clever as the 1970s classic change of Lloyd Free, who proclaimed himself “all-world,” to “World B. Free,” but it’s certainly more effective than Prince changing his name to something that no one could say, and then changing it back.

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