Weblog: In the Name of the Mother, Child, and Womb
Plus: More updates from this week's church conventions and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 6/21/2006 12:00AM
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A hard core, hip-hop spiritual journey | Just as the sun started to burn through the smog on a recent Monday morning, the Rev. Ricardo Xavier-Zatwon Bailey, 32, a priest at Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church here, loosened his collar, slipped on his headphones and rolled up to a radio-studio microphone. (The New York Times)
Hard-core, tattooed types know it's what's inside that counts | Sara Langdon looks different. With 20 piercings, her studded black leather collar, baggy black cargo pants and a small five-pointed star Sharpied just below her right eye, the 16-year-old from West Harrison, Ind., sticks out in a crowd. Especially a Christian-centric one. (Herald-Leader, Lexington, Ky.)
Catch hell | We asked Beliefnet readers if they know someone who's going to hell. Here are the surprising results. (Beliefnet)
Temple Square top Utah tourist attraction | Travel brochures can boast about breathtaking Zion, Bryce and Arches national parks. Tourism promoters can roar about Dinosaur National Monument and hawk the state's high peaks. But Utah's hottest tourism destination is Temple Square. (Associated Press)
Thieves target church | In a rare case of sacrilege for Fiji, police are investigating a break-in at a Christian church at Nalase, Rewa at the weekend. (fijilive.com, Fiji)
Johnston businessmen form Christian Business Forum | The new Christian Business Forum had its beginnings in the Johnston Evangelical Free Church and held its first meeting in March. (Des Moines Business Record)
The Jordan river is deep and wide no more | Over-use of water from the southern stretch of the Jordan River threatens to dry it up and devastate one of the world's most important religious sites. The warning comes from conservationists, Christian groups and the heads of local authorities in the region and there is mounting fear of a natural disaster that would have far-reaching consequences. (Ha'aretz, Israel)
Catholic group pelts Protestant paraders | Catholic militants hurled rocks and golf balls Friday night at paraders from the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood, authorities said. (Associated Press)
Jehovah's Witnesses busy inviting everyone in region to convention in Tacoma | The group printed enough invitations to hand out at 900,000 homes from Bellingham to Vancouver, bold and ambitious even for a religion known for its persistent door-to-door visits and divergence from certain bedrock Christian beliefs. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
A crucible for secularism | France's policy of church-state separation is reflected in declining Christian church attendance, while many of its Muslims hold their faith close (Chicago Tribune)
A feminist look at the Mormon faith | The description that perhaps best defines Judith R. Dushku seems oxymoronic and captures the religious tension of her life. She's a Mormon feminist, a woman who takes periodic issue, if lovingly, with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. (The Boston Globe)
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