Group questions IRS ban on pulpit politicking
The Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations has called for greater clarity regarding limits on political endorsements from the pulpit. From Religion News Service:
Day: August 15, 2013
The sad case of Dartmouth and Bishop Tengatenga
I’d like to add my voice to those who are deeply disappointed that Dartmouth College has revoked Bishop James Tengatenga’s appointment as dean of the school’s Tucker Foundation. The more I speak with friends in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa, the more wrongheaded and damaging to the cause of LGBT rights the decision seems. Lisa …
Churches work to fight ‘mass incarceration,’ the ‘new Jim Crow’
Clergy and church groups are mobilizing to battle racial injustice in the U.S. penal system, inspired by Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness.” Alfredo Garcia writes on the Religion & Politics blog (a project of the John C. Danforth Center of Religion and Politics at Washington University …
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Redskins QB says ‘now is the window’ for gay players in NFL
In an interview with GQ, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, a devout Christian, says the time is right for gay football players to come out of the closet. (There are no openly gay players in the NFL.) Griffin’s comment:
We need the real Mary
Feast Day of St. Mary the Virgin It is astounding the distortion that surrounds the figure of Jesus’ mother. She has, through the centuries, been touted as a model of submissive subservience. She has been worshipped as a pure and perfect sinless maiden. Sexless, devoid of all negative emotion – the mythology that surrounds her …
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