Weblog: Beyond the Episcopal Church's Pagan Eucharist
Plus: Bush speaks about his religion (and that of others), TBN cancels Praise-a-thon, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 10/01/2004 12:00AM
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Curt Schilling & the BoSox:
Schilling may become another gimpy legend | After waking up early yesterday with pain so severe that he did not know if he could pitch, Schilling found inspiration in fans and in prayer. (The New York Times)
Calling for some divine intervention | Is it appropriate to pray for a World Series victory? (Alex Beam, The Boston Globe)
Books:
'The Five Books of Moses' | Michael Dirda reviews Robert Alter's new translation (The Washington Post)
The Great I Am | John Updike reviews Robert Alter's new translation of the Pentateuch (The New Yorker)
You gotta have faith | Reviewing God Bless America: With God On Our Side (The Guardian, London)
Theater:
The anguish is plausible, but his eminence forgets | Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play, "'Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)," reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families (The New York Times)
Puppet show meets stiff church opposition | The show has played to packed houses from Melbourne to London and Edinburgh. However, as far as some residents are concerned, the Puppetry of the Penis comedy act should not be performed in Ayrshire (The Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)
TBN:
Live TBN fund drive axed | Costa Mesa-based Christian broadcaster will use reruns for its 'Praise-a-thon' after a sex allegation settlement was revealed last month (Los Angeles Times)
Deadline for response to televangelist's suit set | Attorneys for Enoch Lonnie Ford have until Nov. 8 to file a written response to a lawsuit by televangelist Paul Crouch, who contends that Ford violated a court order by talking publicly about an alleged tryst between the two (Los Angeles Times)
Business:
A fund counts its blessings | Ave Maria Growth's Jim Bashaw picks only companies that adhere to the Catholic Church's values, and he's handily beating the broader market (Business Week)
Organizations aim to prolong P&G boycott | The American Family Association and Focus on the Family hope to extend indefinitely an election-related boycott of Procter & Gamble Co., contending that the consumer products giant is too supportive of gay rights (Associated Press)
Halloween:
Halloween bedevils some U.S. churches | Candy and costumes or hellfire and damnation? More religious groups believe it's the latter (Chicago Tribune)
Puyallup schools keep Halloween ban despite outcry | The school board in this Pierce County city stood firm despite pleas from an angry crowd: No Halloween in the schools (Associated Press)
Panic in Puyallup | A quick creep across the Web shows that Wiccans and sundry occultists are offended, all right -- by the school district's ban (Editorial, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
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