Weblog: Clergy Respond to Bush's Ultimatum to Saddam
"Banning hot cross buns, Slate says Rick Warren does a subtle violence to the rigors of belief, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM
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Blacks find mission possible | Global ranks growing as economics, education improve (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Religion forum more divisive than diverse | The ADL's 'No Place for Hate' process is so deeply flawed it's not worth pursuing (Editorial, York [Penn.] Daily Record)
Christian crusades for Jews | During the past 14 months, Schindler's Ark has taken in $13,600, which it has redistributed to various groups devoted to protecting and otherwise helping Israel's Jews (Contra Costa [Calif.] Times)
Church life:
Dissenters criticize United Baptist | More than 20 alienated members and a former pastor attended the annual UBC meeting, most of them ineligible to vote (Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine)
Surrounded by Harvard, and hoping to survive | Parishioners at the Swedenborg Chapel, a gray Gothic speck in the crowded crimson landscape of Cambridge, Mass., must raise $2 million by Sept. 30 to keep their church (The New York Times)
Do spiritual people live their faith? | Remarkably, a new Gallup Poll reports that 79.8% of Americans would say yes to these questions which measure an "Inner Commitment" to God, a vertical relationship with Him. (The Daily Journal, Kankakee Ill.)
On the low road to Jensenism | We are in an era of what the political scientist Ken Minogue has called "Christophobia", in which tolerance is offered to any religion save Christianity, and even many nominal Christians cannot tolerate those of their co-religionists who take it literally and seriously. (Paddy McGuinness, The Sydney Morning Herald)
A question of faith | Round Table discussion with teens tackles how religion affects their lives (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
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